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II. 
The Hiftory of a Cafe relating to the Effefts of the 
Agaric of Oak in (topping of Haemorrhages, 
By Jofeph Warner, Surgeon to Guyh HoJpita! y 
and F. R. S. 
_ . Hatton -Garden, 
G entlemen, Dec. 14, 1752. 
Read Dec. 14, \ Greeably to the defire of this Society, 
I have embraced the firft opportunity 
of communicating to you the effedts of the agaric of 
the oak in flopping of hemorrhages, or the bleeding 
from principal veflels after amputation. If I have 
been too circumftantial in my narrative of the fymp- 
toms attending the following cafe, I hope you will 
attribute it merely to the defire I have of giving you 
all the fatisfadtion I am capable of, relating to the 
experiment of this flyptic : And this I have been more 
particularly induced to, as it is one of the firft cafes 
of the kind, offered to your confideration, where this 
application has been made ufe of in England. 
Saturday December 9, 175" 2. Catharine Spong, 
aged twenty- four, had her leg amputated, about four 
inches below the knee, at twelve o’clock to-day, on ac- 
count of an incurable ulcer, with which fhe had been 
afflidted for thirteen years. She loft very little blood by 
the operation. Immediately after the amputation, a piece 
of agaric, of a proper fize (the fame which was deliver’d 
to Mr. Sharp by the Royal Society for this purpofe), 
was applied to the mouths of the principal arteries. 
Two other pieces of agaric were applied to the mouths 
of two fmaller arteries, which appeared at fome di- 
ftance 
