SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE 171TH CENTURY. 367 
once entertained of it, the record of the earlier experiments in 
connection with it has not the less interest. On November 11th, 
1666, Pepys narrates :— 
“Dr. Croone told me, that at the meeting at Gresham College to-night 
thure was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dog let out (till he died) 
into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the 
other side. ‘lhe first died upon the place, and the other very well and 
likely to do well. his did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of 
the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but as 
Dr. Croone says, may if it takes, be of mighty use to man’s health, for the 
amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body.”—Vol. iii., p. 85. 
On November 16th the result of the experiment is given :— 
“This noon I met with Mr. Hooke, and he tells me the dog which 
was filled with another dog’s blood at the College the other day is very 
well and likely to be so as ever, and doubts not it being found of great 
use to men; and so do Dr. Whistler, who dined with us at the tavern.”— 
Vol. iii., p. 87. 
What would Mr. John Bright or Archbishops Tait and Thomson 
say to Mr. Pepys’ thoughtless witticism, which is eminently Palmer- 
stonian in its flavour? The ‘ Philosophical Transactions,’ in giving 
the details of the “experiment,” state that though “ hitherto look’d 
upon to be of an almost unsarmountable difficulty, it hath been of late 
very successfully perform’d, not onely at Oxford by the directions 
of that expert anatomist, Dr. Lower, but also in London, by order 
of the R. Society, at their publick meeting in Gresham Colledge.” 
The Society soon grew bolder, for the following year found them 
extending the experiment of transfusion from dogs to mankind. 
Again let Mr. Pepys be the exponent. On November 21st, 1667, 
he went— 
“With Creed to a tavern, where Dr. Wilkins and others: and good 
discourse; among the rest, of a man that is a little frantic, that is poor 
and a debauched man, that the College have hired for 2Us. to have some 
of the blood of a sheep let into his body; and it is to be done on Saturday 
next. ‘hey purpose to let in about 12 0z.; which they compute is what 
will be let in in a minute’s time by a watch.”—Vol. iii., p. 416. 
On November 30th we learn the result, so far, at least as concerns 
the man “that is a little frantic”; but how about the sheep? 
Pepys says— 
“T was pleased to see the person who had his blood taken out. He 
speaks well, and did this day give the Society a relation thereof in Latin, 
