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his own balfamic tongue no other application was 
made' to the wound or limb than mentioned at firft. 
30th, No material alteration. 31ft, He ufed the limb 
almoft as well as the other. Feb. 9th, Dr. d’up.ban, of 
Halefworth, who attended to the fequel of this experi- 
ment, ftridlly examined the limb with Mr. revans and 
me ; and we could feel no pulfation of the trunk of the 
artery in the fpace, nor in the low^er part of the limb, after 
the wound had been perfectly healed fome days. The 
dog was then remarkably brifk and lively, and as active 
as ufual, without any impediment in the motion of the 
limb ; and no fwelling remained in any part of it. 
We kept the dog alive till the 25th of March, and 
examined the limb attentively from time to time, ^vith- 
out finding any vifible defedt in it, or want of fenfa- 
tion. Then, it not being likely that any thing more 
remarkable fhould appear, while he lived, we had 
him killed for farther inquiry. We had an apparatus 
ready for injedlion; but upon confideration, that care- 
fully diffedling out the parts where we had performed the 
operation, and then carefully examining them, might 
more effectually anfwer our intention, we omitted the 
ufe of it. We did not find the artery divided into two 
equal branches, as I have mentioned and defcribed in the 
human fubjeCt; but a ramification evidently appeared to 
(h) See M. belloste’s Differtation upon the healing Virtue of a Dog’s 
Tougue, in vol. II. of his Hofpital Surgeon. See alfo the note at p. 173. of 
my Cafes and Remarks in Surgery, edit. 2. 
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