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©nr opinion of the fitnefs of trying the Transfufion upon this 
man, we anfwer’d, that we could indeed give goodafliirance for 
his Life , and that this Operation was in it felf not capable to 
caufe ^the death of any one, if difcreetly managed $ but as to the 
Cure offuch an Extravagance, as that appeared to us, we had 
not yet experience enough to dare to promife him that, and that 
our Conjectures went no farther, than to think, that theBloud 
of a Calf by its mildnefs and ireihnefs might poflibly allay the 
heat and ebullition of his Bloud, being mixed therewith. The 
matter having been fufficiently examined, werefolv’d to carry 
this Man into a private houfe 5 and there we appointed for his 
Gardian that Porter, on whom we had already pra&ifed the 
Transfufion, 8 months agoe, both that the Thing might not ap- 
pear fo new to him, as it might do to others , that never had 
feen the Experiment before, and that he might ferveus the more 
to affure our Patient, and others, who fhould be prefent at the 
Operation, that there was no danger in it at all. 
Decemb, ip. we ufed what art we could to difpofe the Fancy 
of our Patient to fuffer the Transfufion, which we refolv’d 
fhould betryed upon him that night about 6 a clock. Many 
perfonsof quality were prefent, together with feveral Phyhtians, 
and Chirurgions, too intelligent to fufpeCl them of being capa- 
ble of the leaft furprife. Mr. Emmerez, open'd the Crural Artery 
of a Calf, and did all the neceflary preparations in their prefence 5 
and after he had drawn from the Patient about io ounces of 
bloud out of a Vein of the right Arm, we could give him no 
more again than about $ or 6 ounces of that of the Calf, by rea- 
son that his conftrained poflure, and the crowd of the Spectators 
interrupted very much this Operation. 
Mean time he found himfelf, as he faid, very hot all along 
his Arm, andvnderthe Armpits*, and perceiving, that he was 
falling into a fwoon, we prefently flopped the bloud running in, 
and clofed up the wound. Yet he fupped two hours after, and 
notwithftanding fome dulnefs and fleepinefs, he was in nowand 
then, he yet patted that night with finging, .whittling, and other 
extravagancies ufual with him. 
But yet next morning we found him fomewhat lefs exorbitant, 
both in his aCHons and words*, and that induced us to believe, 
that 
