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proper a fubjeft to eftablifh the credit of this new 
flyptic as could be produced, if it failed not in its 
efficacy ; there being in him a great depravation of 
the fluids, and a general relaxation of the folids; and 
he had an ulcer upon his leg, of the phagedamic 
kind, of many years handing, attended wiih carious 
bones. Under thefe difcouraging circumflances he 
applied to me about a month before, and begged of 
me to take off his leg ; the pain,, he faid, being fo 
violent and continual, that he knew not how to live 
with it : and tho’ I looked upon him as a very bad 
fubjeft for the operation, yet I did not care to deny 
his moft earned: requell, feeing no other poffible 
means left of affording relief in his miferable con- 
dition. Confidering the rigidity of the fibres in an 
old perfon, and that their natural contraftile power, 
evident in the divifion of an artery, muff be greatly- 
weakened in this cafe, I was afraid, that the agaric, if 
it fhould anfwer, would not aft fo expeditioufly as it 
did in the other ; and that probably we might meet 
with much more difficulty in reftraining the haemor- 
rhage. Therefore, to affift it all I could, I tacked it to 
thick compreffes of lint with pieces of card in the 
middle, thinking by that means I could apply it more 
readily, and keep it in ftronger and clofer contact with 
the mouths of the veffels, if I fhould find it necef- 
fary ; for indeed I was very folicitous for the fupport 
of its credit and reputation, my own being connefled 
in fome meafure with it, and the patient’s welfare alfo 
depending upon it. I applied mod of the pieces 
without being under a neceffity of having the tour- 
niquet-ligature flackened, to ffiew the mouths of the 
velfels ; then covered the flump thick with li 
