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He remained sleepy all the rest of that day, spoke little, and prayed those 

 that came to importune him with interrogatories, to give him rest. And he 

 went on to sleep well also the whole night following. Friday morning he filled 

 another urinal with his water, almost as black as that of the day before. He 

 bled at the nose very plentifully, and therefore we thought it proper to take two 

 or three small porringers of blood from him. 



Saturday morning, the last day before Christmas, he desired again to go to 

 confess, and so to dispose himself for the Communion. Then one Mr. Bonnet 

 examined him in hearing him confess, and after he had found him to have all 

 the reason necessary to receive the Sacrament, he presently gave him the Com- 

 munion. That same day his urine cleared up, and after that time it resumed 

 by little and little its natural colour. 



His wife, mean time, that had sought him from town to town, came to 

 Paris, and having found him out, when he saw her he soon expressed much 

 joy to see her, and related to her with great presence of mind the several ac- 

 cidents that had befallen him, running up and down the streets ; how the watch 

 had seized on him one night, and how calf's blood had been transfused into 

 his veins. 



This woman confirmed yet more to us the good effects of the transfusion, by 

 assuring us that at the present season her husband was used to be outrageous 

 against herself, and that instead of the kindness he now showed to her, he 

 used to do nothing but swear and beat her. 



It is true that comparing his present calm condition before the transfusion, no 

 man scrupled to say that he was perfectly recovered. Yet to speak the plain 

 truth, I was not so well satisfied as others seemed to be, and I could not per- 

 suade myself that he was in so good a temper as to stop there, but I was in- 

 clined to believe by some things I saw, that a third transfusion might be re-* 

 quisite to accomplish what the two former had begun. 



Yet in delaying the execution of these thoughts from day to day, we observed 

 so great an amendment in his carriage, and his mind so cleared up by little and 

 little, that his wife and all his friends having assured us that he was restored to 

 the same state he used to be in before his phrenzy, we entirely quitted that re- 

 solution. I have seen him almost every day since; he has expressed to me all 

 manner of acknowledgment, and been also with M. de Montmor, thanking 

 him very civilly for his goodness in recovering him out of that miserable condi- 

 tion he was in by a remedy which he should remember as long as he lived. 



He is at present of a very calm spirit, performs all his functions very well, 

 and sleeps all night long without interruption, though he says he has now 

 and then troublesome dreams. He has carried himself so discreetly in some 



