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ftay for the Judgment of theDoftorsof Paris, to enable them toprefcribe 
an Operation of this nature. Doubtlefs we (hall in a ftiort time have this 
point determin'd and regulated by a higher Jurisdiction. And I have now 
before me a paralytick Woman ( a neighbour and friend to her, that was 
cured of the Palfey this way ) who is refoived to prefent a Petition to the 
Magiftrate, and therein to defire, the Transfufion may be allowed her. 
Mean* time, if ever the Faculty of the Parifian Phyfitians meet upon this 
bufinefs 3 1 do not believe, that they will aft with that precipitancy, ssfome 
fancy. And as to the Parliament, I do not fee, that thofe , who compofe 
it, are of a refolution to ftrike at this Operation, unlefs it fhould happen, 
that the Experiments, that may be made before them,fhould not fucceed as 
thofe have done, that have been made hitherto. 'Tis well known to that 
Court, that the Faculty made a decree, an hundred years fince, againft Anti- 
mony r which was then ufed by the Phyfitians of Montpelier^ and that, after, 
they had given it a place among Pojfons, they obtain'd a fentence, prohibi- 
ting the ufe thereof: yet notwithstanding thefe Phyfitians not having for- 
borne to ufe it under another name, the effects thereof proved fo advanta- 
gious, and the recovery of our Great Monarch thereby fo famous, that the 
fame Faculty of Paris was conftrain'd, two years agoe, by a decree to ap- 
prove what before they had forbidden, and even demanded an other fen- 
tence for permitting the ufe of the fame. 
This Example alone will not let them go fo faft for the future upon the 
like Occafions : befides that the time , wherein we are , feemes to be 
much more favourable for New Difcoveries- than it was an Age agoe* His 
Majefty, how much foever taken up in the Government of his Kingdome s 
and in his Victories and Triumphs, is not wanting to give a very particular 
encouragement and protection to Learned and Inquifitive Men : And at a 
time, when his faid Majefty fends all over the World recompences and 
gratifications to thofe, that cultivate Sciences, I cannot believe, that in his 
Dominions there will be found Magiftrates,refolved to condemneperfonsi 
that have no other Crime, than that of confecrating all their intereft and la- 
bour to the Progrefs and Advancement of Knowledge and New Difcove- 
ries. I (hall not faile , punctually to impart to you the iffue of this af- 
faire , in the mesne time believe me , 
Paw, May 15, x668. 2<w&c,- 
An Account of tVco Books : 
M THE PROG RES and ADVANCEMENT OF KNOW- 
LEDGE fince the dayes of ARISTOTLE; in an Account of 
fome of the mofl remarkable late Improvements of ufeful Learning* 
BjjOS. GLANVILL 5 London in 8° Printed for James Collins; 
THe chiefe defign of the Difcourfe in this Book is; to encourage more 
and more the free and better difpofed fpirits to a vigorous endea- 
vour in the purfuits of fuch knowledge, as may really enrich the underftand- 
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