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ving confider d that a man in that condition, being already 
much diforder'd by the apprehenfion of death^might be further 
intimidatedjby looking upon this transfufion as a new kind of 
deaths and thus, conceit might poffibly caft him into faint- 
ings and other accidents , which would undoubtedly be afcri- 
bed to the Experiment by fuch as decry it : We thought not 
fit to expole our felves to that danger , nor to importune his 
Majefty without any neceffity ^ being perfwaded that there 
would not be fo much realon to fear the like events in perfons 
whom we knew perfectly well, and who had fome confidence 
in our words , we chofe rather to wait till a favourable oc- 
cafion offered m fuch a perfon as we wiflit, than to ha* 
zard the lofs of all by too much precipitation. This Refo- 
lutionbeingtaken we negled:ed nothing that prudence obH- 
gedusunto ^ and at length after fome attendance we lighted 
upon afubjedt futable toour wifhes. The particularities of 
our proceedings I here fubjoyn in few words, they being as fo 
many aiithemick confirmations of all that I have hitherto 
written* 
Ontht' Ff of this Monethj we hapned upon a Youth aged 
between 15 and 1 6 years, who had for above two moneths bin 
tormejited with a contumacious and violent fevxr, which ob- 
liged his Phy fitians to bleed him 20 times^ in order to afTwage 
the exceffive heat. 
Before this difeafe, he was not obferved to be of a lumpifli 
dull fpirft;his memory was happy enough^and he feem'd chear- 
•ful and nimble enough in body s but fince the violence of this 
■fever, his wit feem'd wholly funk 5 his memory perfeiSIy loft, 
and his body fo heavy and drowfie that he was not fit for any 
things I beheld him fall afleep as he fate at dinner, as he was 
eating his Breakfaft, and in all occurrences where men feen3 
mofl: unlikely to fleep. If he went to bed at nine of tha clock 
m the Evening, he needed to be wakened feveral times before 
he couid be got to rife by nine the next morning, and he pafs'd 
the refl of the day in an incredible ftupidity^ 
I attributed all thefc changes to the great evacaations of 
blood, the Phyfitians had been oblig'd to make for laving h^s 
life, and I perfwaded my fclf that the little they had left htm 
was.- 
