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Some time after this two waggoners were run over 
by a waggon loaded with ftone, and each of them 
had one leg broken in a miferable manner. Thefe two 
men being brought to the Hofpital of the Charity, I 
faw no other hopes offuccefs but in amputating the 
legs ; and, for that reafon, I requefted Mr. Brolfard 
would be prefent, and give me a proof of this new 
application, which we applied in the following man- 
ner : 
As foon as the leg was cut off, I llacken’d the 
tournequet, to difcover the veflels ; and Mr. Brof- 
fard applied, upon the orifices of the two arteries, 
two pieces of his affringent, faften’d one upon the 
other with a riband, in the manner, which I have 
fent to you, and as it is in the drawing. After the 
application was made, I ftreighten’d the tournequet, 
and pafs’d the two ends of the riband, which was 
faften’d to the upper piece of the aftringent, upon the 
flump over the knee, and applied a linen bag, filled 
flightly with the fame aftringent in powder, upon 
the whole wound j and, over all, applied the com- 
mon dreftings in the like cafe. After the drefling 
was finifti’d, I flacken’d the tournequet, and two 
hours after took it intirely away. Eight- and-forty 
hours after this, we took off the dreftings, and not 
the leaft drop of blood follow’d from the veflels : 
and we again applied one Angle piece of the aftrin- 
gent upon the two veflels ; and I drefs’d the other 
parts of the wound with pledgets of lint, with com- 
mon digeftive, a ftyrax plafter, and the ufual band- 
age. . 
The third day the aftringent fell off of itfelf in the 
time of drefling j and the patient, after that time, was 
B b b b drefs’d 
