our opinion of the fitnefs of trying the Transfufion opon this 
man, wcanfwer'd, that we could indeed give good a{furance for 
his Life J and that this Operation was in it felf not capable to 
caufe the death of any one^ if difcreetly managed 5 but as to the 
Cure of fuch an Extravagance, as that appeared to us, we had 
not yet experience enough to dare to promife him t^at^ and that 
our Conjectures went no farther, than to think, that theBloud 
of a Calf by its mildnefsand freflinefs might poffibly allay the 
heat and ebullition of his Bloud, being mixed therewith. The 
matter having been fufficiently examined, werefolv*d to carry 
this Man into a private houfe*, and there we appointed for his 
Gardian that Porter, on whom we had already pra^lifcd the 
Transfufion, 8 months agoe, both that the Thing might not ap- 
pear fo new to him, as it might do to others , that never had 
feen the Experiment before/ and that he might ferve us the more 
to afiure our Patient, and others, who fhould be prefent at the 
Operation, that there was no danger in it at all, 
Decemb, 19. we ufed what art we could to difpofe the Fancy 
of our Patient to fuffer the Transfufion, which we refolv'd 
Ihould be tryed upon him that night about 6 a clock. Many 
perfonsof quality were prefent, together with feveral Phyfitians, 
and Chirurgions, too intelligent to fufpedi them of being capa- 
ble of the leaft furprife. Mr. Emmerez open'd the Crural Artery 
of a Calfy and did all the neceffary preparations in their prefencc 5 
and after he had drawn from the Patient about 10 ounces of 
bloudout of a Vein of the right Arm, we could give him no 
more again than about 5 or ^ ounces of that of the Calf, by rea- 
fon that his conftrained pofture, and the crowd of theSpedators 
interrupted very much this Operation. 
Mean time he found himfelf, as he faid, very hot all along 
his Arm, andvnder the Armpits % and perceiving, that he was 
falling into a fwoon, we prefently flopped the bloud running in, 
and clofed up the wound. Yet he fupped two hours after, and 
notwithftanding fome dulnefs and fleepinefs, he was in now and 
then, he yet paffed /that night with finging, whittling, and other 
extravagancies, ufual with him. 
But yet next morning we found him fomewhat lefs exorbitant, 
both in his actions and words 5 and that induced us to believe, 
^ that 
