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ately taken up, and tied with a needle and ligature. 
In order to difcover this veffel, the agaric was re- 
mov’d ; and tho the tourniquet was quite flack, the 
other large artery did not bleed one drop. This hap- 
pened about an hour and an half after the operation. 
After the veffel was tied, the fame agaric was again 
laid on the fame part, without fcrewing the tourni- 
quet, and the patient became much eaiier ; but, in . 
about three hours and an half, the other large veffel 
burft open ; and tho’ aftiftance was on the fpot, and 
it was immediately tied up, fhe was fo exha u fed by 
the fudden lofs of blood, that fhe died in about 
twenty minutes. 
It is conjectured, that, by the three haemorrhages, 
•viz. the frit during the operation, and the two after 
the operation, fhe loft between twenty and thirty 
ounces of blood. I examined the limb after death, 
but found no fingular appearance in the veftels, or the 
adjacent parts. 
The other woman was twenty-four years of age. 
She loft very little blood in the operation, and has 
continued extremely well ever fince. The agaric 
feems, in this inftance, to have anfwered the moft 
fanguine expectations. The dreftings were removed 
this morning, without any accident. Mr. Warner, 
who performed the amputation, propofes to do him- 
felf the honour of laying the particulars of her cafe 
before the Society* 
Samuel Sharp,. 
It. Tbz 
