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ufe of the method, not only to aftronomers, but to 
all others concerned in making of experiments of 
any kind (to which the above reafoning is equally 
applicable). And the more obfervations or experi- 
ments there are made, the lefs will the concluhon 
be liable to err, provided they admit of being repeat- 
ed under the fame circumftances. 
Other examples, and particulars might be added, 
in confirmation of what is here determined j but as 
I would not appear tedious to your Lordfliip, I here 
conclude, who am, 
Woolwich, My Lord, 
March ^,1755. 
Your Lordlhip^s 
mofi; obedient humble fervant, 
, T. Simpfon. , 
XX. Account of the Succefs of AgariCy 
and the Fungus vinofus, in Amputations : 
By Mr, James Ford, Surgeon y of BriftoL 
Briftol, March 31,. 1755.^ 
Read April I had fome pieces of the aga^- 
JL ric of the oak brought me from 
France, which I have frequently ufed with fuccefs 
in haemorrhages, particularly once after the opera- 
tion for the ftone, where a large artery lay fo deep,, 
that it could not conveniently be taken up with a/ 
needle. After the pubiicau’on of Mr. Warner’s ob^ 
fervations, Mr. Thornhill applied it fuccefsfully to 
an 
