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LXXVIII. Experiments concerning the Ufe of 
the Agaric of Oak in flopping of Hemor- 
rhages „ 
I. 
An Account of the Event of Experiments made by 
Agaric upon the Amputation of the legs of two 
Women in Guy’i Hojpital . By Mr. Samuel 
v Sharp, Surgeon of that Hofpitaly and F. R. S. 
Read Dec. 14, 
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Dec. 12, 1752. 
Urfuant to a recommendation from 
the chair on Thurfday the feventh 
inftant, the agaric was made ufe of, the enfuing Sa- 
turday, 011 two women, whofe legs were amputated 
below the knee. 
One of them was hxty-two years of age, and had 
been very much impair’d by a long illnefs, and con- 
tinual pain. During the operation, the bled with great 
impetuofity 5 and it was with difficulty, that the hae- 
morrhage was flopp’d, notwithftanding I prefs’d the 
agaric, with all my force, againft the extremities of 
the tibialis antica , and tibialis poftica, the two larged: 
arteries. The tendency to bleed, after the operation, 
was fuch, that I found it neccffiary to apply the tour- 
niquet, and keep a tight dridture on the femoral ar- 
tery. She complain’d grievoufly of the pain arifing 
from the ftricture; upon which it was a little 
loofen’d, and foon after a hemorrhage enfu’d from 
one of the two large arteries, which was 
immedi- 
ately 
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