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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: canary with relish, and found himself no worse in mind or body.
And in two days more fourteen ounces of sheep's blood were
substituted for eight of his own without loss of virility to him.
Nor were experiments in vivisection unknown to the Royal Society,
as it was called, for the "Philosophical Transactions" speak of a
dog being tied through the back above the spinal artery, thereby
depriving him of motion until the artery was loosened, when he
recovered; and again, it is recorded that Dr. Charleton cut the
spleen out of a living dog with good success.
The weighty discourses of the learned men who constituted the
society frequently delighted his majesty; though it must be
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