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causes, who presently allowed me to inform both against the Widow, and those that solicited her. Some witnesses hiving been called before Justice, they deposed against the three Physitians and this Woman, accusing them to have secretly given to her husband certain powders, which might have contributed to his death.
This Information, brought in by five Witnesses, having been presented in a full Court to the said Lieutenant by Mr. Dormesson, the King's Advocat; he gave Sentence, That the Woman should have a Day set her, to appear in Person to be examined upon my Informations, and that in the mean time new Informations should be taken against her at the desire of His Majesties Atturney. And because he thought, that there might be danger in permitting indifferently the practise of the Transfusion to all sorts of persons, he order'd, that for the future it should be used but by the prescript of Physitians. This is, what you'l see more fully in the Sentence it self;
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IN this Cause. there are proofes and evidences of these Particulars;
1. That the Operation of Transfusion was twice performed upon Anthony Mauroy, a Madman, and that it was attempted the third time: that it succeeded so well those two times, that the Patient was seen, for two moneths after it, in his good senses and in perfect health.
2. That from the time of the two first operations his Wife gave him Eggs and Brothes, and Bedded with him four times, notwithstanding the prohibition of those, that treated him, and that she carried him to her house without speaking to them of it, and with great reluctancy of her Husband.
3. That since that time, he went from one Cabaret to another, and took Tobacco, and failing ill again, his Wife ordinarily gave him him strong-Water to drink, and Broths, wherein she mixed certain Powders; and that Mauroy, having complain'd that she would Poyson him, and gave him Arsenic in his Broths; she hindred the Assistants to taste thereof, and making a show of tasting of it her self, cast it down upon the ground, what, she had in a Spoon.
4. That du Mauroy had frequent quarrels with his Wife since, and that she gave him many strokes, as sick as he was, but having once received a box on the Eare from him, she said, he should repent it, though he should die on't.
5. That when the Transfusion was attempted the third time, it was at the instant request of his Wife; those that were to performe the operation, refusing to do it without permission of the Sollicitor General; that same dayes after that, the Operation was begun, but that almost no blood issuing neither out of the foot nor of the arme of the Patient, a Pipe was inserted, which made him cry out, though it appeared not that any blood of the Calfe had pass'd into his veins: that the Operation was given over, and that the Patient died the next night.
6. That this Woman would no wayes suffer any to open the body of her Husband saying, for an Excuse, He was already in the Coffin, when he was not.
