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Ting confider’d that a man in that condition, being already 
much difbrder’d by the apprehenfion of death,might be further 
intimidated, by looking upon this transfufion as a new kind of 
deaths and thus, conceit might poflibly caft him into faint- 
ings and other accidents , which would undoubtedly be aferi- 
bed to the Experiment by inch as decry it : We thought not 
fit to expofe our (elves to that danger , nor to importune his 
Majefty without any neceffity > being perfwaded that there 
would not be fo much reafon to fear the like events in perfbns 
whom we knew perfectly well, and who had fome confidence 
in our words , we chofe rather to wait till a favourable oc- 
casion offer'd us fuch a perfon as we wsfht , than to hae 
zard the lofi of all by too much precipitation. This Refo- 
lution being taken we negletfted nothing that prudence obli- 
ged us unto 5 and at length after fome attendance we lighted 
upon afubjedf futable to our wifhes. The particularities of 
our proceedings Ihere fubjoyn in few words, they being as fo 
many authentick confirmations of all that I have hitherto 
written. 
On the ry of thisMoneth, wehapned upon a Youth aged 
between 15 and 16 years, who had for above two moneths bin 
tormented with a contumacious and violent fever, which ob- 
liged his Phyfitians to bleed him 20 times 3 in order to affwage 
the exceffive heat. 
Before this difeafe, he wasnotobferved to be ofalumpifh 
dull fpirit,his memory was happy enough,and he feem'd chear- 
ful and nimble enough in body * but fince the violence of this 
fever, his wit feem’d wholly funk , his memory perfectly loft, 
and his body fo heavy and drowfie that he was not fit for any 
thing. I beheld him fall afleep as he fate at dinner, as he was 
eating his Breakfaft, and in all occurrences where men feem 
moft unlikely to deep. If he went to bed at nine of the clock 
in the Evening, he needed to be wakened feveral times before 
He could be got to rife by nine the next morning, and he pafs’d 
the reft of the day in an incredible ftupidity. 
I attributed all thefe changes to the great evacuations of 
blood, the Phyfitians had been oblig’d to make for favinghis 
life, and I perfwaded my felf that the little they had left him * 
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