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LETTER II. 
To Mr. Jofeph Warner. 
Read Dec. 
* 754 - 
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S IR, 
Shottefham, Nov r em. 10, 1754. 
Return you thanks for the agaric of 
the oak, which I received bv Mr. Fel- 
lowes, and fend you an account of the effeCt I have 
obferved it has had, according to your defire, that 
you may have the fatisfa&ion of feeing I have made 
no unprofitable ufe of your favour. Two or three 
days after I received it, I was defired by an ingenious 
furgeon to be with him upon bufinefs. I carried 
fome of it with me, and he was pleafed with the 
opportunity of trying it in an amputation below the 
knee of a boy of about ten years old. We applied 
it according to the directions given in your book, 
which I have read with pleafure and profit, .and the 
haemorrhage was intirely flopped in fix minutes. He 
informed me, that, on the fth day inclufive, the 
dreftings and agaric came all off without force, and 
left the flump in a good digeded date, without the 
leaf; appearance of blood $ and that the pain, in con- 
fequence of the operation, did not require an ano- 
dyne. He cut a boy for the ftone the fame day, and 
a vefiel bleeding rather more than is thought allow- 
able, he applied a very fmall piece of the agaric, and 
a foft dofiil of lint over it, which, with gentle pref- 
fure of the finger, redrained the bleeding in lefs than 
a minute. My own patient, aged near feventy, whom 
I made trial of it upon, the 23d of the lad month, 
in amputating his leg below the knee, appeared as 
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