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saying that he finds himself much better since and as a new man; but he 
is cracked a little in his head, tho’ he speaks very reasonably and well. 
He had but 20s. for his suffering it, and is to have the same again tried 
upon him: the first sound man that ever had it tried on him in England, 
and but one that we hear of in France.”—Vol. iii., p. 420. 
The ‘Philosophical Transactions’ furnish the details of the 
experiment, stating that it “* was perform’d November 23rd, 1667, 
upon one Mr. Arthur Coga, at Arundel-House, in the presence of 
many considerable and intelligent persons, by the management of 
those two Learned Physitians and dextrous Avatomists, Dr. Richard 
Lower and Dr. Edmund King.” 
Pepys could not allow the occasion to slip without recording 
another sample of his treatment of all things, grave or gay :— 
“On this occasion Dr. Whistler told a pretty story of Dr. Cayus that 
built Caius College; that being very old and living only at that time upon 
woman's milk, he while he fed upon the milk of an angry fretful woman 
was so himself; and then being advised to take it of a good natured 
patient woman, he did become so beyond the common temper of his 
age.” —Vol. iii., p. 417. 
Coming events were casting their shadows before, for we now 
read, November 30th, 1667 :— 
“To Arundel House, to the election of officers for the next year; when 
I was near being chosen of the Council, but am glad I was not, for I could 
not have attended, though above all things I could wish it; and do take it 
as a mighty respect to have been named there.”—Vol. iv., p. 278. 
Shortly after this, however, he was elected into the Council, on 
which he ofien served, and in 1684 was chosen President, and 
filled the office for two years.* 
Pepys’ increasing importance was not without its disadvantages. 
We have read already how forty shillings sufficed to secure bis 
admission to the Society, in whose welfare and advancement he 
thencefrom took so cousiderable an interest. It is not without 
* A curious usage is referred to on this head (November 20th, 1668) :—“ Mr. Povy, 
Creed and I, to Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, 
it being St. Andrew’s-day; and I had his cross set on my hat, as the rest had, and 
cest me 2s.” The annual meeting of the Royal Society is still held on that day, as 
indeed is prescribed by the first Charter. Weld, in his ‘ History of the Royal 
Society,’ says St. Andrew was ‘the patron saint of the Society, in whose honour the 
Fellows of the Society were accustomed, at the early anniversary meetings, to wear 
a St. Andrew’s cross in their hats.” 
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