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hours after, and notwithstanding some dulness and sleepiness, he yet passed 

 that night with singing, whistling, and other extravagancies usual with him. 



On the next morning we found him somewhat less extravagant both in his 

 actions and words, which induced us to believe, that by repeating the transfusion 

 once or twice we might find a more remarkable change in him. We therefore 

 prepared ourselves to repeat it upon him the next Wednesday at six o'clock in 

 the evening again, in the presence also of several very able physicians, Bour- 

 delot, Lallier, Dodar, de Bourges, and Vaillant. But as this man appeared 

 very thin, and as it was not at all probable that his blood was peccant in the 

 quantity after three or four months continual watching, and after the hunger 

 and cold he had suffered in running naked in the streets without finding shel- 

 ter at nights, we took but two or three ounces of blood from him, and having 

 put him in a more convenient posture, we made this second transfusion into his 

 left arm more plentiful than the first. For considering the blood remaining in 

 the calf after the operation, the patient must have received more than one 

 whole pound. 



As this second transfusion was larger, so were the effects of it quicker and 

 more considerable. As soon as the blood began to enter into his veins, he felt 

 the like heat along his arm and under his arm-pits which he had felt before. 

 His pulse rose presently, and soon after we observed a plentiful sweat over all 

 his face. His pulse varied extremely at this instant, and he complained of 

 great pains in his kidneys, and that he was not well in his stomach, and that 

 he was ready to choke unless they gave him his liberty. 



Presently the pipe was taken out that conveyed the blood into his veins, and 

 whilst we were closing the wound, he vomited much bacon and fat which he 

 had eaten half an hour before. He found himself urged to urine, and asked to 

 go to stool. He was soon made to lie down, and after two good hours strainings 

 to void divers liquors which disturbed his stomach, he fell asleep about ten 

 o'clock, and slept all that night without waking till next morning about eight 

 o'clock. When he awoke, he showed a surprising calmness, and great presence 

 of mind, in expressing all the pains, and a general lassitude he felt in all his 

 limbs. He made a great glass full of urine, of a colour as black as if it had been 

 mixed with the soot of chimnies. 



Hearing of some of the company that we were in a time of jubilee, he asked 

 for a confessor, to dispose himself to be made participant of it. And he con- 

 fessed himself accordingly to M. de Vean with that exactness, that the con- 

 fessor gave him the public testimony of a sound understanding, and even judged 

 him capable to receive the Sacrament, if he continued in that state and 

 devotion. 



