eaufes,who prefently allowed me to inform both ag drift the Widow, and 
thofe that fo! licked her. Some witneffes having been called before Juftice 
they depo fed againft the three Phyfirians and this Woman, ?ccufing them 
to have fecretly given to her husband certain powders; which might have 
contributed to his death. 
This Information, brought in by five Witneffes, having been prefented in 
a full Court to the f ud Lieutenant by Mr. Dormeffon, the King's Advocat- 
h e gave Sentence, That the Woman fhould have a Day fet her, to appear 
in Perfon to be examined upon my Informations, and that in the mean time 
new Informations fhould be taken ag- infi: her at the defire of His Ma je fries 
Atturney And becaufe he thought , that there might be danger in per- 
mitting indifferently the praftiie of the Transfufion to all forts of perfons, 
he ordered, that for the future it fhould be ufed but by the prefcript of Phy- 
fcfcihs i This is, what you'l fee more fully in the Sentence it felf • 
An Extract 
Of die Sentence, given at the Chaftelet, by the Lieutenant in Criminal 
Ca tries, April ij. 1668. in Paris. 
]N this Caufe, there are proofes and evidences of thefe Particulars ; 
I . That the Operation of T ransfptfion wfts mice performed upon Anthony 
Mauroy, a Madman, and that it was attempted the third time : that it fue- 
ceeded fo well thofe two times , that the Patient Was feen, for tWo moneths after 
it ,in his good fences and in perfect health. 
2. That from the time of the two firft operations his wife gave him Eggs 
and Brothes,and B dded with him four times, notwithftanding the prohibition of 
thofe, that treated Inm, and that /be carried him to her houfe without fpeakjng 
to them of it, and with great reluttancy of her Hufband. 
3 , That ftnee that time, he Went from one Cabaret to another, ana toot*, To- 
bacco, and fa/ 11 ig ill again, his Wife ordinarily gave him ftrong-Water to drin\ % 
and Broths, wherein fhe mixed certain Powders >, and that Mauroy , having 
complain d that (he would Poyfon him, and gave him Arfenic in his Broths ^fhe 
kindred the J jf ft ants to tafte thereof and making a Jhow of taftingof it her felf, 
cafi it down upon the ground, What pie had in a Spoon. 
4. That du Mauroy had frequent quarrels with his Wife ft nee, and that Jhe 
gave him many ftrokes i as fickjM he was, but having once received a box on the 
Bare from him, fhe faid, he fhould repent it, though he Should die on't. 
5. That when the Trans fufion was attempted the third time, it was at the in- 
fant requeft of his Wife • thofe that were to per forme the operation, refufing to 
do it without permiffion of the Sollicitor General ; that fome dayes after that , 
the Operation was begun y but that almoft no blood iffuing neither out of the foot 
mr of the arme of the Patient, a Pipe was inferted, which made him cry out, , 
though it appeared not that any blood of the Calfe had pafs'd into his veins ; 
that the Operation was given over, and that the Patient died the next night. 
6. That this Woman would m wayes fuffer any , to open the body of her Huf- 
band s faying^foranExcufe % Hi already in the Coffin, when he was not.. 
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