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would not have die fame effed:, they applied it to 
the dump, and fecured it with proper bandage : and 
after two hours and an half, the blood fprung out 
v/ith the fame impetuofity j when Monf. la Foffe 
applied the lycoperdon powder, which he held on 
With his hand alone, for only fix minutes : he took 
away his hand, and no artery bled but the crural ; 
but the dream of thisVas very fmall, by means of ^ 
the powder ; which they let alone for fix minutes, 
and yet it did not increafe : then this gentleman put 
a pinch of the powder to this bleeding veffel, and 
the blood dopped in four minutes before them. In 
all thefe operations the fame cone and membrane 
were formed ; for they didedled them all afterwards 
and this edecd of the medicine was ever confiant ^ 
Thefe were the fads drongly atteded by the com- 
mittee of the Academy mentioned above ; which I 
think, as drongly deferve the notice of the world r 
and if the fame effeds are produced upon human 
bodies, the painful tying up the arteries, and the ha- 
zard or uncertainty of the agaric,, will be fully com - 
pen fated in this noble powder. 
It is faid by thofe two gentlemen, that this powder 
was not quite unknown before ; true, 1 know that 
in countries where I have travelled, the common 
people know it to be good for dopping blood, and 
accordingly ufe it for bleeding of the nofe, and acci- 
dental cuts in any part ; and authors have indeed 
mentioned it as good in the fame intentions j but I 
do not know of any who have brought it to the ted 
in amputations, where its ufe is very capital, and its 
application fo eafy and fimple, and when alfo every 
field almod, during the autumn, produces tliefe 
Mr. 
