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Wrench Have given the Engl if? the hdPtthought or notion of this Ex- 
per iment. And why t becau CeCfay they)t here are witneflesythat a Be- 
mdictim Fryer, one Don Robert de <74^,difcourfed of it at Man- 
hear dc Monmors , ten years agoe. Surely, all ingenious men will 
acknowledge, that^th'e certain • w|y of deciding fuch Controversies 
as thefe, is a Publick Record, either written or printed, declaring 
the time and place of an Inventionfirfi; propofed, the contrivance 
of- the Method, to pradrife it, .and the inftances of thefuccefs in 
the Execution. All this appears in the field for England, 
Numb . 7 . of thefe Tran factions (printed An. 1 : & 6 $Jn Decemh , ) 
acquaints the World, how many years fince Dr. Chriflopher Wren 
propofed the Experiment oi Inf upon into Veins. And this was hint 
enough for the R. Society , forne while after to advance Inf upon to 
Trans [upon h for the trial of which latter, they gave order at their 
Publick Meeting of May 17 . 1 66^. as may be feenin their four- 
ml, where was regiftred by the care of their Secretaries, obli- 
ged by Oath, to fidelity : The trials ( proving then lame, for want 
of afit apparatus, and a well contri ved Method of operation, the 
Learned Phyfitian and Expert Anatomift, Dr. Lower , fince found 
out inch ^Method, which is not only regiftred inthe fame Book, 
but alfo publifhed in Print Numb. 20 . of thefe before which! 
time, it had been already pradrifed by the faid Doctor in Oxford, 
who was followed by feveral ingenious men at London, thatfuc- 
cesfuily pradtifed it by the Publick .Order of the aforefaid 
. Society . 
- It feems ftrange, that fo furprifing an Invention fhould have 
L been conceived in France , as they will have it, ten years ago, 
and lain there fo long in the. womb, till the way of Midwiving & it 
into the world was fent thither from London ; To fay nothing of 
ihe difagreement, there feems to be about the French Parent of 
this fat us ^ Monfieur de Gurye in the Letter above mentioned, fa- 
thering itupon the Abbot Bourdelof but the Author of ^French 
fourmls, upon a Benedictine Fryer » 
But whoever this Parent be, that is not fo material, as that all 
ijiat lay claim to this Child, fhould joyn together their endea- 
vors and cares to breed it up for the feryiceand relief of humane 
life, if ic be capable of it § And this is the main thing aimed at 
fbl3i.ci.ted in this Difcourfe $ not written to offend or injure 
‘ any, 
