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A26307 Physical reflections upon a letter written by J. Denis, professor of philosophy and mathematicks, to Monsieur de Montmor, counsellor to the French King, and Master of Requests concerning a new way of curing sundry diseases by transfusion of blood / by George Acton ... Acton, George. 1668 (1668) Wing A450; ESTC R21309 8,325 17

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Physical Reflections UPON A LETTER WRITTEN By J. Denis Professor of PHILOSOPHY and the MATHEMATICKS TO Monsieur de Montmor Counsellor to the French King and Master of Requests Concerning a New way of Curing sundry Diseases BY TRANSFUSION of BLOOD BY GEO. ACTON a Spagyricis Regiis in Ordinario LONDON Printed by T. R. for J. Martyn at the Bell without Temple-Barr 1668. TO THE KING SIR HAd not the subject of this following discourse been the discovery of the most acute and curious Genius of this age the Virtuosi of the Royal Societies of London and Paris and the quality I bear of your Majesties servant given me some title to your Majesties Protection I durst not have presum'd to front such a bagatelle as this with an Adress to the mightiest Monarch in Europe But a Cherry or Rose preventing the ordinary seasons of the maturity of the rest by their rare singularity are rendred acceptable to Princes not for their own real value which is none but novelty which challenges their acceptance And Sir the Experiments of Healing by Transfusion of Blood are both New and Curious and I hope these Reflections may cast some Radiatiations of light upon the obscure and devious paces of Nature such as may perhaps discover some of her more hidden recesses especially in her regiment of Humane Bodies I have as far as was possible avoided hard and obscure words but having taken upon me to inquire into the reasons and examine the admirable success of these late Experiments by the Test of Hermetick Phylosophy it was not possible for me to avoid such Terms as this Art necessarily requires to render it intelligible though if I mistake not this method gratifies the understanding with far more evident and apparent reason than that of the Peripateticks commonly receiv'd in the Schools I need not labour to perswade Your Majestie into a good opinion of the noble Science of Chymistry which solely possesses all the keyes of the three Kingdomes of Nature the natural propensity of Your Royal Genius strongly inclines You to the love of all Learning but more particularly of this the most worthy perhaps of all humane Sciences such as that antiently amongst the Egyptians Chaldeans Arabians c. Many of their Kings have gloried more in the knowledge of this Art than in the lustre of their Diadems such were Hermes Tresmegistus Morienus Calib Alphonso King of Portugal c. and although the ignorance and Thrasonick boasting of Pseudochymists have almost brought it into contempt in this Age yet it is a most undoubted truth That Paracelsus Van Helmont and many others have been able to conquer all Diseases Gallenical Physitians now call incurable and that with great facility in effect true Philosophers have not only had Vniversal Medicines for Humane but Metallick bodies also insomuch that the Chrysopaean Art is said so to have flourished in Egypt about the year 294. that the mighty Emperor Dioclesian could never conquer that people by force till he had by Stratagem in time of peace possest himself of the Books together with the Artificers and by that means subjected them to his Empire But Mr. Denis's Letter gives me onely opportunity at present to expose some few Physical observations tending to health and prolongation of life both which with excess of all humane felicity may the King of Kings by the guidance of his inviolable providence inseparably annex to your Majesties Crown and Sacred Person Your Majesties most Loyal and most Obedient Subject and Servant GEO. ACTON Physical Reflections UPON A LETTER c. THat which I find most remarkable in Mr. Denis's Letter is first the Transfusion of the Blood of a Mangie Dog into a Sound one to try whether the Mange would be communicated with the blood the Mangie Dog is found cur'd and the other who had received his blood not become Mangie The next is the Experiment upon a Youth who had for the space of above two Months been tormented with a contumacious and violent Fever which saies the Narrative oblig'd his Physitians to bleed him twenty times in order to assuage the excessive heat Before this Disease he was not observed to be of a lumpish dull Spirit his Memory was happy enough and he seem'd cheerful and nimble enough of body but since the violence of this Fever his Wit seem'd wholly sunk his Memory perfectly lost and his body so heavy and drowsie that he was not fit for any thing to trouble you no longer with every particular of the relation They opened his vein and took about three ounces of blood so black and thick it could hardly form it self into a threed to fall into the Porrenger At the same time they brought a Lamb whose Carotis Artery was prepar'd out of which they emitted into the Young mans vein about three times as much of its Arterial blood as he had emitted into the dish and so stop't the Orifice of the vein as usually in other Phlebotomies being ask'd how he found himself he said during the operation he felt a very great heat all along his Arme but in brief he presently became more cheerful and lively eat his meat very well and shew'd a cleer and smiling Countenance the next day slept better and from that time got the victory over his drowsiness he had no longer slowness of Spirit nor heaviness of Body grew fat visibly and is saies Mr. Denis a subject of amazement to all that know him Though Mr. Denis hath sufficiently answered the weak objections aagainst the Practice of this new Art yet how the sound infus'd blood of one Animal mingling with the infected Mass of another and especially of a different Species induceth renovation and health into the diseas'd without receiving infection from so desperate acommixtion seems worthy of a further inquiry than has been yet made As to the Experiment of the exchange of blood between the Mangie Dog and the Sound one by which the first receives his cure the other remains uninfected Mr. Denis inquires whether the blood of the Mangie Dog were putrefied and corrupted in his veins or not As if putrefaction of the blood were necessarily the efficient cause of the Disease but by the common experience of Anatomy the blood is found not to putrefy within the vein many daies after death much less than it is to be suspected ordinarily of putrefaction in the living vein where by continual circulation and the irrigation of the vital Balsome of its volatile salt congelation the beginning of putrefaction is most powerfully refitted Besides the Adepti know how to rectify the blood in all Fevers the Gallenists call putrid citò tutò jucundè with the precipitate Diaphoretick of Paracelsus But surely if putrefaction be the repulsion of the Crasis of the thing putrefied necessarily inducing a new form the blood must either be granted not putrefied in the Vessels or a regression from privation to habit which is absurd In the same Experiment Mr. Denis supposing the blood of the