030 ) , 
Bhyfitian, Dr* timothy Clerk* hath made it part of his boh- 
oefs, to purfue thole Experiments with much induftry, areas 
accuratenefs, and confiderable obfervatioss thereof which 
sibove two years Once were by him produced and .read be- 
fore the Royal Society, who thereupon defired him, as one of 
their Members., to compieat, what he had proposed to him- 
felf Upon that fubjed , and then to pubiifh the fame ; the 
Effe& whereof ’tis hoped , will now fhortly appear , and 
not pr>vc unwelcome to the Curious. 
Soive whereof,? hough they may conceive, that liquors thus 
xnjeded into V eines without preparation and digeUion, will 
makeodde, Gommorionsinthe Blood, diflu rb Nature, and 
caufe ftrange Symptoms in the Body , yet they have other 
thoughts of Liquors , that are prepared of fuch things , as 
have palled the Digeftion of the Stomach § for example, of 
Spirit of Urine , of Harts- borne , of Blood &c. And they 
hopelikewife , that befides the MedicalXJfes 3 that may be 
made of this Invention , it may alfo ferve for Anatomical 
purpofes, by filling, after this way, the veffels of an Ani- 
mal as full, as they can hold , and by exceedingly distending 
them , difeover Neva Veffels , • &c : But not now to enlarge 
upon theUfes, the Reader may fecurcly take this Narrative, 
as the naked real Matter of Fad, whereby ’tis as clear, as 
Noon - day ( both from the Time, and irrefragable Teftimo- 
ay of very many confiderable Per fens in that Univerfity,who 
can jointly atteft it j as well as from that particular unque- 
CBonablc one of Mr. Soft and his worthy Company , who 
were the fifft Eye-witneffesof the Tryals made, )that to Ox« 
ford, and in It, to Dr. ChriJlopher Wren, this fnvention is dues 
and consequently* that all others , who difcourleor write of 
it, doe either derive it from Him , or are fallen upon the 
fame Devifefeveral years after Him; 
Fublijked with Licenfe , 
Oxford, Printed by A: Sc L: Lichfield, 
for Ric; Dank, 1 66 f, 
