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SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, icnt.
Cœtera, libenter [drew, quibus rationibus duBus, Romanus ille doSlifimusManfredi judicarit, bane inventionem Germania prirno concept am fuifse. Nobisen mi adhuc nihil omnino occurrit, quod vel in minimam ejufmodi suspicioncmducere potuerit. Tribus vel quatuor ablnnc annis , Major quidam , medicusHambergensis, fchedis quibuj'dam pubhee emijjis perfuadere orbi literato nifuse Jh fe ante biennium de tali re cogitafje. Sed proculdubio male bac de re edollusJuit vir eruditus , & nimis feftinantcr snas propalavit cogitaliones. Dick enim,Jf audiviffe, talem operationem, viz. exhibitioner/! medicamenti cathartice pervtfustonem in venam coram principe quodam Palatino in Germania peraSlamJuijfe ; cum reverd hoc d me in aula noflrd regid coram celjifjimo principe Pa-tatino, Ruperto, prastitumfuerit, wide posted facile Germanis potuit commu-} ucan. Re/n fdeli ter , temporum fecutus or dine/n, enarravi. — Et hoc au-daclcr afero , nos m Anglia mventione/n bane a nullo accepif 'e peregrino.
An Italian Philosopher, in a certain Tract, entitl’d, Relatione dell' expe- Philosophicaldeniie fatte in Inghelterra, Francia, & Italia intorno la transfufione del fan-gue y printed in Rome, undertook to prove, that the Transf us on was of greater 1668.
Am iquity, as having been known to Libavius above fifty Years since. ForMsich, that Roman Author alledg’d a Place out of the said Libavius , (indejmjione fyntagmatis arcanorum cbymicorum , &c. anno 1615.) where theTransfusion is deferib’d in these Words: Adstt juvenis robustus , Janus, J'an-Kwne fpintuofo ple/ius ; adjlet exhaustus viribus , tenuis, macilentus , vix ani-Vl atn trahens. Magijler arsis habeas tabulos argenteos inter fe congruentes,
Q periat artcriam robujli, & tubulum inj'erat, muniatque ; mox & œgroti arte-y iam findat , & tubulum fœmineum inf gat. Jam duos tubulos fbi mutuo ap -AW, & ex fano fanguis arterialis, calens, & fpirituojus fzliet in agrotum,u paque vita font em afferet, omnetnque languor em pellet. The Obfervator hereri ghtly takes Notice, that Libavius did not propose this Operation, but onlyto stiock at it, and that he contriv’d it with great Danger, both to the Re-Cl pient and Emittcnt, by proposing to open Arteries in both: But,
Dr. King practis’d an easy and jafe Way of transf usng Blood out of one PhilosophicalAnimal into another by the him only, without opening any Artery of either :***£*"'•Ge Success wheieof in two Experiments he communicated to the Royal- 1667.society. To enumerate briefly some of the first Trials perform’d in Eng- Philosophical' a nd, and in foreign Parts, in pursuance of, and after the Publication of Dr . ihWren's noble Invention of Infusion, and in consequence Transfusion ; ’tis re- um ' 3 °'c ° r ded, that in November, 1667, the Experiments of Transfusion of nineQ . r ten Ounces of the arterial Blood of a young Sheep into a human Vein ofle Arm, was successfully perform’d at Arundel-IIouj'e, by the Doctors LowerW King, in the Presence of many considerable Persons; and the. Relationc °nirnunicatcd to the Royal Society.
, Monk Denys, Professor of the Mathematichs and natural Philosophy at Pa-related in a Letter to the Publisher of the Transactions, that they had* a nsmitted the Blood of four Weathers into a Horje of twenty-fix Years old,that this Horse had thence receiv’d much Strength, and more than ordi-ar y Stomach.
» % the fame Monf. Denys's Relation, in his printed Letter to Monsieur de°ntmor ; a young Man, after he had receiv’d the arterial Blood of a Lamb ,as cured of an extraordinary Lethargy , consequent to a violent Fever, where-had been let Blood twenty Times. Among other successful Trans-stfions by the said Author, are those of Lambs Blood into Dogs, which afterj. e Sp ace of several Months from the Time of the Operation, did not only^ 1Ve > but were very well, and some of them grew fatter than they were be-° re ; and of Kids Blood into a little Spaniel Bitch of twelve Years of Age,
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