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with : And the journal des Scavans glorleth, that the Fre'/jck 
have advanced this Invention fo far, as to trie it upon Men, be- 
fore any Englt(l) did it, and that with good fuccefs. 
We readily grant, T^^)! were the firft, we know off, that adu- 
ally thus improved the Experiment^ but then they muftgiveus 
leave to inform them of this Truth^that the Philofophere in Eng- 
la?jdhad pradlifed it long agoe n^onMa?^ , if they had not been 
io tender in hazarding the Life of Man (which they take fo much 
pains for to preferve and relieve) nor fo fcrupulous toincurre the 
Penalties of the LaW;, which in ^ngland^ is more ftridl and nice ixi 
cafes of this concernment,than thofe of many other Nations are. 
The Puhl/jher can aflfert hona fide^, that feveral Moneths agoe 
he faw himfelf Inftruments ready, and heard the Method a- 
greed on, thought proper to execute this Operation upon Man, 
And, for further proof thereof, he ftiall here infert the whole way, 
pecuharly contrived here for this purpofe, by the Ingenious Dr. 
Edmund King, and by him communicated in a Letter 5 Monfieur 
Den'js not having thought fit to defcribe the manner they ufed in 
jj^rancefovldenz, nor any body elfe, come to our knowledge. 
The Letter is as follows, 
SIR, 
THe Method of Trans frfwg Blond you have feenpra- 
Bifedj with facility enough^ from Beaft to Beaft ; 
and we have things in dreadinefs to transfttfe Blond from 
the Artery of ^Lamb, Kid, or what other Animal may 
he thought proper^ into the Vein of a Man. W e have been 
ready for this Experiment thefe fix Months^ and wait for 
nothing but good opportunities ^and the removal of fome 
confederations of a Moral nature. I gave you a view ^ 
you may remember ^ a good xvhile agoe^ of the Inflrnments^ 
I think^very proper for the Experiment^ which are only a 
Silver Tube, with a Silver Stopper fomewhat blunted at 
one end^ and flatted at the other for conveniency of hand- 
lings nfed already upon Beajis with good fnccefs. The 
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