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XCIV. Monf Faget 's Remarks cn the Ufe y 
&fc. of the Styptic, fur chafed by His Moji 
Chriflian Majejly ; communicated by James 
Theobald, Efq\ R R. S. 
Read Dec. 7, yy BOUT the end of the year feven- 
I752, jljl teen hundred and fifty, Mr. Brof- 
fard, a furgeon from Berry, came to Paris, to pro- 
pefe the ufe of a remedy, which he had difcover’d 
for hopping the blood after amputations, and which 
he aflerted to have found effectual in feveral ampu- 
tations of the arms and legs. At his requeff, fome 
gentlemen of the Academy of furgery were deputed, in 
whofe prefence he was to make fome new experiments 
in flopping the blood upon different animals, and in 
all which lie lucceeded, by flopping it in the largefl 
arteries after amputation. But the fuccefs of this re- 
medy might yet be confider’d a little dubious, be- 
caufe in many animals, as in dogs particularly, the 
great arteries flop of their own accord ; and rarely 
any dog dies from an haemorrhage, becaufe their 
blood is more difpofed to congeal, and by that means 
flop the difcharge. 
For this reafon the experiments made on animals 
not being thought fatisfactory, and yet being con- 
vinced, that no ill effect could follow the application 
of this remedy on human kind, Mr. Broffard was per- 
mitted to ufe it at the hofpital of the invalids, in an 
amputation of the leg, which fucceeded perfectly 
well ; and not the leaft ill accident attended the cure 
thro’ the whole time. 
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