Wrench have given the Ejiglifh tht RtGithougk or Mtlonoi this Ex- 
periment, And why 1 becaufe(//yf f%)there are witneffes^that a Se^ 
nedUtine Fryer^ one Don Robert. de Gahets^iikoxxxkd of it at Mon- 
fieur de Monmors, ten years agoe. Surely^ all ingenious men will 
acknowledge^that th^ certain of deciding fuch Controverfies 
as thefcj is a Pablick Record, either written or printed, declaring 
the time and place of an Invention firft propofed, the contrivance 
,of the Method, to pra^life it, and the inftances of thefuccefs in 
the Execution. All this appears in the field for England, 
Numb, 7. of thefe T ranfactims (printed Jn. 166^, in Decemb, ) 
acquaints the World^ how many years (mctDt. Chriflofher Wren 
f rppofed the Experiment oiJnfufton into Veinsu And this was hint 
enough for the R, Society y fome while after to advance Infufton to 
Trans fufion s for the trial of which latter, they gave order at their 
Publick Meeting-of 17. i5($5. as may be fcenin their ^our- 
naU where 'twas regiftred by the care of their Secretaries, obli- 
-gedbyOath to fidelity: The trials proving lame, for want 
of aEt apparatus i and a well contrived Ji/^/^^?^:^ of operation , the 
^Learnec^ Phyfitian and Expert Anatomift, Dr. Lomr) fince found 
out fuch ^ Method, which is not only regiftred in the fame Book, 
tut alf© piibliflied in Print Numb.io, of thefe Tr^rf /^before which 
•>time it had been already pra^iifed by the faid Doctor in Oxford, 
.who was followed by feveral ingenious men at Z^?/;^(?;/, thatfuc- 
cesfulJy praitifed it by the Publick Order of the aforefaid 
Society. 
' It feems ftrange, that fo furprifing an Invention fliould have 
" been conceived in France, as they will have it, ten years ago, 
and lain there fo long in the womb, till the way of Midwiving it 
into the world was fent thither from XWc^;^ To fay nothing of 
ihe difagreement, there feems to be about the French Parent of 
this f^tu^j MonfiQm dec ur ye in theLetter above mentioned, fa- 
4:hering itupon the Abbot Bourdelot^ but the Author of the i^r^;7r/& 
.journals , upon a Benedictine Fryer. 
But whoever this Par^t be, that is not fo material, as that all 
that lay claim to this Child, (hould joyn together their endea- 
?iws and cares to breed it up for the ferviceand relief of humane 
Jife, if it be capable of it 5 And this is the main thing aimed aj: 
and follicitedin this Difcourfe^ not written to offend or jnjure 
any. 
