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as before. Little or no tenfion had yet taken place j 
neverthelefs, in order to obviate that, and the fympto- 
matic fever that might be expedted, and finding 
withal the pulfe began to rife, I ordered him to be 
bled about ^xvj, and left him with a tourniquet put 
loofely round the arm, with proper directions to the 
attendants, for fear of any ludden rupture of the 
blood -veiTel in the night. 
The next morning I found him tolerably eafv, 
but the pulfe very quick and ftrong, and ftill no pul- 
fation in the wrift of the wounded arm. The af- 
pedt of the wound very good, no tenfion round. 
However, as it was fo nice a point to determine, 
whether the arter^" was or was not divided, and of 
confequence whether it would be more prudent, on 
the fuppofition it was, to proceed to amputation, or 
any longer run the rifk of a mortification’s enfuing; 
I judged it proper to have other opinions, and for 
that purpofe, called in three furgeons of credit in the 
town. 
They were all of opinion, as there were no im- 
minent fymptoms, it was beft ftill to wait ; judging 
rightly, that, if a mortification took place only through 
defedt of the blood’s circulation in the lower limb, 
it might eafily be remedied by amputation above, 
time enough when it firft made its appearance. We 
accordingly drefled up in the fame manner, but had 
the patient bled again to or jxii, and gave a gentle 
lenitive, which procured a few ftools. In the even- 
ing, fymptoms were much the fame pulfe ftill 
ftrong and quick : bleeding was therefore repeated. 
The next day every thing feemed to take a fa- 
vourable turn, the pulle grew much more calm, a 
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