The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from Rome, June 18.

"Some time since mention was made of a vulnerary water, the secret for making which was known only by a criminal who had been condemned to die, but obtained his pardon on condition of his communicating the secret to his Holiness. His Holiness has granted an exclusive privilege to the author for making and vending it in the ecclesiastical state, by an edict dated the 26th ult. strictly forbidding any one to imitate it. This water has been examined by the most skillful physicians and surgeons, who have made a number of trials of its effects, the result of which is, that they have declared it to be most efficacious in stopping haemorrhages of all kinds, as well those of the arteries as from common wounds. It has been tried on several persons with the greatest success, and experiments have been made on several animals purposely further to experience its effects: The main artery of a lamb, and the crural artery of a dog being cut, and the wounds having some of this water applied to them, they were healed in forty eight hours. This discovery, so valuable for humanity, will not die with its author, as his Holiness is possessed of the receipt for making it, and we are told he has presented a copy of it to the Emperor of Germany."