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i^nvention, becaufe though authors have mentioned 
K as good to day hemorrhages, yet none before 
him, that I know of, has made ufe of it in the cafe 
of amputation. 
IVTonf. la Foffe, Farrier to the King of France, has 
publidied a book lately, which treats of fome dif- 
cafes in horfes, which I happened to fee yefterday 
morning, wherein he takes occafion to give a parti- 
cular detached piece upon a remedy for flopping 
blood in wounded arteries ; of which the following 
is an extract ; and alio of the declaration of the Aca- 
demy of Sciences upon the experiments made with 
The fubjedts he chofe for this purpofe were horfes ; 
and, in the hril experiment, he laid the temporal 
artery bare, and divided it half-way tranfverfely 
frorn which the blood iffued with great violence i 
he immediately applied the powder of the crepitus 
upi, or puff-balls, a very common produdlion in our 
fields, lycoperdon, by the botanic writers which he 
confined only with the palm of his hand to the part, 
and the blood flopped. He prick’d in the fame 
manner an artery in an horfe’s leg, and flopped it in 
the fame manner. 
To make his next experiment, he cut off the fore- 
leg of a horfe, near the breafl, and applied to the 
flump this powder, confined only by a piece of blad- 
der, and the blood flopped j tho’ the horfe flrusi^'Ied 
a great deal, for he was flung to make the amputa- 
tion. The tail of the fame horfe was cut off near 
the body, and the four arteries were immediately 
flopped in the fame manner. 
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