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sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, ot.

ration had been twice perform’d with good Success; the Patient having hadthereupon a good Interval of two Months after the first, and all Hopes of alonger, after the second; had it not been for the Debauches of Wine andbrandy, that he fell to, soon after the Operation. He was a Britain byBirth, and the Original of his Madness, Love. That which Dr. Denys’sAdvocate, (who was the Son of Monsieur the premier President de Lamoig-non) very much gloried in, was, that (besides that the Experiment had beenpractised with good, at least with no ill Success, in England, Germany, Ita-Holland , &c. and defended in Theses, in almost all the Universities ofPrance) there were two Persons, a Man and Woman present in the Au-dience, that rcceiv’d a Benefit to Admiration from the Experiment, after theyhad been abandoned by all Physicians, and other Helps.

With the Accounts of Transfusion of Blood, one other memorable In- <Tra "Ifiance, among many, may be further cited of the Success of some Experi- um ' 39 ‘soents of infusing Medicines into human Vnns: written from Dantzick, tosire Honourable R- Boyle.

Monsi Smith, Physician in ordinary to this City, having Liberty grantedhim to try an Experiment upon some Persons desperately infected with theBox, then in the publick Hospital here; adventur’d the opening a Vein, anddisusing some Medicines into the Blood ; which was try’d upon two Persons,

Mrereof the one recover’d, and the other died. Yet being since farthere ncourag’d by corresponding with some of the Royal Society in England,about a Month since, the said Physician, together with Mons. Scheffeler, ano-ther eminent Practitioner in this City, repeated the Experiment, by infusingaltering Medicines into the Veins of the right Arms of three Persons; the°ne lame of the Gout; the other extremely Apoplectical; and the third, re-due'd to Extremity by that odd Distemper, the Plica Polonica. The Success°f this, as Mons. Hevelius (who was the Person only admitted to be presentthe Operation) informs me, was that the gouty Man found himself prettyWell next Day, anst shortly after went to work, it being Harvest-time, andhas continu d well ever since, leaving the Hospital yesterday, and profeffinghimself cured. The Apoplectic al hath not had one Paroxysm: and the severalSores which the Plica Polonica had occasional, are heal’dj and both these Personshave been able to work any Time these three Weeks. Dated August 18, 1668.

Was it not too ludicrous for the Subject, one might be apt to imagine,

*hat the ancient Mythologifs had some Notion of the Doctrine of Transfusion ,

Infusion, and the wonderful sanative, and restorative Effects thereof; butHot comprehending it could be possible to asiign them to natural Causes; hadre courle to the Powers of Enchantments, and magical Arts. — Thus Medeastfior’d, (as ’tis said) Æson, when decrepid with Age, to his former Vigour0^ Liso, by exhausting the old Blood, and infusing medicinal Juices, andr ’ evv vital Blood into the empty’d Veins and Arteries. ■—The like Experi-p le 'it she try’d on an old Ram, which became a sucking Lamb. — Theseai 'ticulars, well adapted to Fable , are describ’d by the Roman Poet, with his^fi’al Elegancy, and with this Conclusion --

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