202 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO ]668. 



tions should be taken against her at the desire of his majesty's attorney. And 

 because he thought that there might be danger in permitting indifferently the 

 practice of transfusion to all sorts of persons, he ordered, that for the future it 

 should be used but under the inspection of physicians ; this is what you will see 

 more fully in the sentence itself. 



JSxtract of the Sentence, given at the Chastelet, hy the Lieutenant in Criminal 



Causes, April 17, 1668, in Paris, 



In this cause there are proofs and evidences of these particulars ; 



1 . That the operation of transflision was twice performed upon Antony Mauroy, a madman, and 

 that it was attempted the tliird time : that it succeeded so well those two times, that tlie patient was 

 seen for two months after it in his good senses and in perfect health. 



2. That from the time of tlie two first operations his wife gave him eggs and broths, and bedded 

 with him four times, notwithstanding the prohibition of those tliat treated him, and that she carried 

 him to her house without speaking to them of it, and with great reluctancy of her husband. 



3. That since that time, he went from one public house to another, and took tobacco, and falling 

 ill again, his wife gave him spirituous liquors to drink, and broths, wherein she mixed certain 

 powders ; and that Maufoy having complained that she would poison him, and gave him arsenic in 

 his broths 5 she hindered the assistants from tasting tliereof, and making a show of tasting it herself, 

 cast upon the ground what she had in a spoon. 



4. That du Mauroy had frequent quarrels with his wife since, and that she gave him many strokes, 

 as sick as he was, but having once received a box on the ear from him, she said he should repent it 

 though she should die for it. . , 



5. That when transfusion was attempted the third time, it was at the instant request of his wifej 

 those that were to perform the operation refusing to do it without permission of the Solicitor General; 

 that some days after that the operation was begun, but that as scarce any blood issued either out of the 

 foot or of the arm of the patient, a pipe M-^as inserted, which made him cry out, tliough it appeared 

 not that any blood of the calf had passed into his veins : that the operation was given over, and tliat 

 the patient died the next night. .]:■.-, 



6. That this woman would no ways suffer any person to open the body of her husband, saying in 

 excuse, he was already in the coffin, when he was not, 



7. That a good while after the decease of the said du Mauroy, three physicians did solicit the said 

 woman to take money, and to make complaints that the transfusion had killed her husband : that she 

 said when those persons were gone away from her, tliat they had been witli her upon that account ; 

 and that unless those that had made the operation would give her wherewith to return into her country, 

 she should do what those others pressed her to : that a witness deposetli, tliat she came to pray him, 

 that he would inform those who had made the operation, tliat unless they would maintain her during 

 her life, she would accept of the offer made her by the said physicians : that another witness deposeth, 

 that one was come to him from a physician, and had offered him 1 2 louis d'or, if he would depose 

 that du Mauroy died in tlie very act of the transfusion. 



That the matter was important enough to inquire into the bottom of it ; that there was cause 

 enough to examine this woman. Where she had those powders ? Why she had given them to her 

 husband ? And by whose order ? Why she had hindered the opening of the body by a lie ? That he 

 required further information might be taken about it, and she in the mean time put in safe custody. 



That as to the three physicians who had solicited her witli money to prosecute those that had made 



