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appear’d evidently to increafe it. Seeing this un- 
common effed, I quite flackened the tourniquet ; 
upon which, the bleeding immediately ceafed. This 
I was led to from a fuppofition, that the veins had 
probably fuffered fo great a compreflion from the in- 
ftrument, as to be incapable of returning that blood, 
which was carried to the neighbouring parts by the 
collateral arteries arifing from the principal trunk 
above the ligature. But whether this was the true 
reafon, or not, I cannot take upon me to determine : 
However the fad was, that the bleeding immediately 
ceafed, and did not return again. 
The patient was drefled on the fourth day after 
the operation, and the whole of the agaric was re- 
moved. Since that time he has been treated in the com- 
mon method, without any farther ufe of the agaric. 
The patient has had very little fever, or pain, fince 
the operation. He has a fair profped of doing well. 
Cafe 2. Elizabeth Hillier, a very lufty woman, 
thirty-eight years of age, had her bread cut off on the 
yth of this inftant May, 1734. The wound was 
large, and bled freely from feveral confiderable ar- 
teries. I made ufe of no other method to flop the 
bleeding, than the application of pieces of agaric to 
the mouths of the veffels, which were properly fe- 
cured on by a flannel roller, after being firff covered 
with lint, and a pledgit of tow fpread with digeftive. 
The fymptomatic fever was very flight : She has been 
quite free from thofe painful fpafms, which conflantly 
arife from the ufe of the ligature : There has not been 
the lead lofs of blood hnce the operation. 
Her 
