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oufly in afcertainlng the quality of the agaric with 
refped: to flopping the blood after amputations ; and 
it appears, that in many inftances the fuccefs an- 
fwered according to expedlation. There are flill, 
however, various objedlions made by fome to its effi- 
cacy ; and fome doubts concerning the intfficacy of 
its power upon the more conliderable arteries efpe- 
cially. 
And as it were to be wifhed by every humane 
perfon, who is called to undertake tiiofe painfu' ope- 
rations of the amputation of limbs, which his duty, 
however arm’d with compaffion, authoiifes, ffiat any 
means could be found whereby part of the patient’s 
ffiarp fenfations might be taken off j fo every attempt 
towards this laudable end will be very warmiy i e- 
ceived, by thofe whofe fandlion has heretofore often 
encouraged every effay advanced for the p blic good. 
It is not unlikely that, at prefent another, even 
a more certain method is found for flopping the 
blood in the mofl confiderable arteries after amputa- 
tions ; which, if the teflimonies of the Royal Aca- 
demy of Sciences can be relied on, cannot admit of 
either hazard in the application, nor delay in its 
effedls : nor is there the leafl need of the affiflance 
of the tourniquet to reflrain the blood while the re- 
medy is applied j where pain is avoided, and yet the 
neceffary fuppuration goes very happily on towards 
perfediing the cure. 
I therefore fhall haflen to the hiflory of the re- 
medy, and recommend it to our fuigeons to make 
the experiment on quadrupeds of the larger kinds, 
as the author of this invention has done, before it is 
attempted upon human bodies; and mufl cdl it an 
invention, 
