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PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
Monday, December. 9. 1667.
The Contents.
An Account of the Experiment of Transfusion, practised upon a Man in London. A Narrative of some Trials of Transfusion, lately made in France. Some New Experiments of Injecting medicated Liquors into humane Veins, together with some considerable Cures performed thereby. An Extract of a Letter written from the Bermudas, giving an Account of the Course of the Tides there; of Wells both salt and sweet, digg'd near the Sea; of the Whale-fishing there practised anew, and of such Whales, as have the Sperma Ceti in them. A method for finding the Number of the Julian Period, for any year assigned, the Number of the Cycle of the Sun, the Cycle of the Moon, and of the Indications, for the same year, being given. An Account of some Books. I. Petri Lambecii Lib. Primus Prodromi Historiæ Literariæ. II Thomæ Cornelii Progymnasmata Physica. III. Les Essays de Physique du Sieur de Launay. IV. Francisci du Laurens Specimina Mathematica, duobus Libris comprehensa.
An Account
Of the Experiment of Transfusion, practised upon a Man in London.
This was perform'd, Novemb. 23. 1667. upon one Mr. Arthur Coga, at Arundel-house, in the presence of many considerable and intelligent persons, by the management of those two Learned Physicians and dextrous Anatomists Dr. Richard Lower, and Dr. Edmund King, the latter of whom communicated the Relation of it, as followeth.
The Experiment of Transfusion of Blood into an humane Vein was made by Us in this manner. Having prepared
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