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which, a little while aster the Operation grew vigorous and active, and evenproud, in less than eight Days. To thele he added a considerable Experi-ment, made upon a Person, who had been for three Weeks afflicted withthe complicated Distempers of an hepatick Flux, a Lientery, and a biliousDiarrhæa, accompany'd with a very violent Fever, &e.

ibid. P . 564. Some remarkable Experiments of injecting medicated Liquorsinto Veins, were communicated in a Letter from Dantzick,by Dr. Fabricius, Phyfcian to that City.

F ^Orafmuch (said he) as we had a great Desire to experiment, what wouldbe the Effects of the Chirurgery of injecting Liquors into human Veins,three fit Subjects presenting themselves in our Hospital, we thought good tomake the Trial upon them. But seeing little Ground to hope for a mani-* sest Operation from any altering Medicines, we esteem’d the Experimentwould be more convenient, and conspicuous from Laxatives ; which madeus injeSi by a Syphon about two Drachms of such a kind of Physick into theMedian Vein of the right Arm. The Patients were these, one was a lustyrobust Soldier dangerously infected with the Venereal Disease , and sufferinggrievous Protuberatings of the Bones in his Arms: He, when the purga-tive Liquor was infus'd into him, complain’d of great Pains in his Elbows,and the little Valves of his Arm did swell so visibly, that it was necessaryby a gentle Compression of ones Fingers to stroke up that Swelling towardsthe Patient’s Shoulders. Some four Hours after, it began to work, not verytroublesomely, and so it did the next Day ; insomuch that the Man had fivugood Stools after it: Without any other Remedies those Protuberances weregone, nor are there any Footsteps left of the ubovemention’d Disease. Thetwo Other Trials were made upon the other Sex. A married Woman ofthirty-five, and a serving Maid of twenty Years of Age, had been both ofthem from their Birth, very grievously afflicted with cpileptick Fits, so thatthere were little Hopes left to cure them. They both underwent this Ope-ration, and there was infested into their Veins a laxative Rosin, diffolv’d inan anti-epileptical Spirit. The first of these had gentle Stools, some Hoursafter the Injection, and the next Day, the Fits recurring now and then, butmuch milder, are since altogether vanilh’d. As for the other, viz. the Maihfile went the fame Day to Stool four Times, and several Times the next'but by going into the Air, and taking Cold, and not observing any Dk f >cast herself away.

Mons. Gay ant at Paris stiew’d the Effects of transfusion of Blood, Wputting that of a young Dog into the Veins of an old one, who, two Hoistafter, did leap and frisk; whereas he was almost blind with Age, and coulyhardly stir before. — A Spaniel thirteen Years old, was recover’d of Dtfness , by transfusing into his Veins the Blood of a Lamb.

Dr. y. Denys above-mention’d, (in a Letter printed at Paris, and sentthe Publisher of the transactions of the Royal Society by himself,) gave aslAccount with all the strange Circumstances of a Man cured of an inv ct< \-rate and outragious Madness or PhrenJy, by the transfixion of the Blood 0a Calf, five or six Ounces from the crural Artery, in lieu of about tenOunces drawn from the Patient, out of a Vein of the right Arm.

After this, in the Year 1669, Dr. Denys was questions before the Li (U ^nant Criminal, at Paris, for the Death of his Patient (a Man that had b ££ sstark mad for several Years) who had expired under his Hands, while he ^transfusing Blood into him, according to jhe new Experiment, The 0 ?^

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