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 of the Parlement here, on Thursday last, that Society being then publicly instanc'd in for the Source of Noble Experiments, and having the Precedency of those in Germany, Italy, and other places of Europe; in that order, wherein the Orator thought fit to rank them.

The Occasion of mentioning it was, That one Monsieur Denys, a Physitian, had been question'd before the Lieutenant Criminel here for the Death of his Patient (a Man that had been stark Mad for several years) who had expired under his hands, while he was Transfusing Blood into him, according to the New Experiment. The Operation had been twice perform'd with good success; the Patient having had thereupon a good interval of two Moneths after the first, and all hopes of a longer after the second, had it not been for the debauches in Wine and Brandy, that he fell to, soon after the Operation, He was a Brittan by birth, and the Original of his Madness, Love. That which Mr. Denys, his Advocate, very much gloried in, was, that (besides that the Experiment had been practised with good, at least with no ill success, in England, Germany, Italy, Holland, &c. and defended in Theses in almost all the Universities of France) there were two persons, a Man and a Woman, present in the Audience, that received a benefit to Admiration from the Experiment, after they had been abandon'd by all Physitians and other helps.

In Justifying the Introduction and Use of New Experiments he said, That the Most precious Life to this State (viz That of his Most Christian Majesty) had been saved by the Administration of a lately invented Emetique.

This Advocat was the Son of Monsieur le Premier President de la Moignon. The same was, not long since, in our Court, and is, I perceive, well known to it, and infinitely satisfied with the Civilities he had received from several persons there. Though this was his first Action, yet his performance was a Master-piece, and he had an Audience sutable; all Friends, I suppose, to his Family: among them were the Duke of Enguyen, the Dukes of Luynes, Mortemar, Chaulne, and a World of other Great Persons, Men and Women.

The Pleading for the Widow Plaintiff will be on Thursday next; but any odds would be laid on the Defendants since; though