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 7. That a good while after the Decease of the said du Mauroy, three Physitians did sollicit the said Woman to take Money, and to make Complaints, that the Transfusion had kill'd her Husband: that she said, when these Persons were gone away from her, that they had been with her upon that account; and that unless those, that had made the Operation, would give her wherewith to return into her Country, she should so what those others pressed her to: that a Witness deposeth, that, she came to pray him, that he would advertise those, who had made the Operation, that unless they would maintain her during her life, she would accept of the offer made her by the said Physitians: that another Witness deposeth, that one was come to him from a Physitian, and had offer'd him 12 Golden Louys's, if he would depose, that du Mauroy died in the very act of the Transfusion.

''That the matter was important enough to inquire into the bottom of it; that there was cause enough to examine this Woman, where she had those Powders? Why she had given them to her husband? and by whose Order? Why she had hindred the Opening of the Body by a lie? That he required, further information might be taken about it, and she in the mean time put in safe Custody.''

That as to the three Physitians, who had sollicited her with Money to Prosecute those that had made the Operation, and who had been seen with her, he demanded, that a Day might be set them to appear in Person.

Lastly, that since the Transfusion had succeeded well the two first times, and had not been undertaken the third but at the earnest request of the Woman, who otherwise had so ill observed the orders of those, that had made the operation, and who was suspected to have caused the death of her Husband, he demanded, that the execution-of the decree of prefixing him a day for personal appearance might surcease.,

Whereupon it was decreed, that the Widow of du Mauroy shoukd on a set day appear personally, and undergo the examination upon the alledged informations; and that more ample information should be made of the Contents in the Complaint of Mr. Denys: And then, that for the future no Transfusion should be made upon any Human Body but by the Approbation of the Physitiane of the Parisian Faculty.

Since this Sentence, new Informations have been given in, considerably stronger than the former; and Witnesses have been discover'd, to whom the Woman had committed it as a truth, that it was Arsenick, she mingled in her Husbands Broths, and even that the deceased, having given the rest of one of the Messes of broth to a Cat, the Animal died of it a few dayes after.

As to the Transfusion, you see it is not absolutely prohibited by this sentence, there needing no more to practise it, but to have the approbation of some Physitians of Paris; and at this very time there are seven or eight, that have signed the Proposition made for one. 'Tis not, that I would make use of that Licence for the practise of this Operation; for the Physitians of Montpelier, Rheimes, and other Universities of France, who hold at, Paris the first places about their Majesties, the Princes and Princesses of the blood, the chief Magistrates and other persons of Quality, find themfdves in some manner wounded by this sentence. They do not think they are obliged to Rh