72 Dr. Nlmmo on the Croton TigUiim. 



been expected from venesection, and the patient being, forth- 

 with, put upon a regulated system of diet, exercise, and the 

 occasional use of the croton mixture, the size of the body 

 is slowly, but progressively, diminishing; exercise can now 

 be taken without hurrying the breathing, the mind has 

 regained its accustomed activity, and if the plan be steadily 

 persisted in, there is no reason to dread that even the natural 

 tendency, in this case, of the constitution to produce too much 

 blood, and the deposition of an excessive quantity of fat, at 

 the early period of thirty-two or thirty-three years, may be kept 

 at bay, and life preserved. 



Glasgow, 4th Marchi IS22. , 



AnT. VI. An Account of a Cinerary Vase, found at Athens. 

 By Lewis Vulliamy, Esq., late Travelling Student of 

 the Royal Academy. 



The vase, the subject of this paper, is a simple, but beautiful, 

 example of the taste of the ancient Greeks. It contained, 

 amongst the earth with which it was filled, pieces of burnt bones, 

 a golden fillet, and some pieces of gold, which preserved no 

 intelligible form. This vase is of fine Pentelic marble, and is 

 wrought with the chisel in a masterly manner, but its execu- 

 tion is little advanced beyond the state called abbozzato by the 

 Italians, and boasted by the English sculptors. The inside is 

 worked in a similar manner. Its average thickness throughout 

 is about half an inch. 



Previously to describing the manner in which the vase was 

 found, or the circumstances of its situation, it will be proper to 

 observe, that, for some years before my visit to Athens, it had 

 been greatly the practice with travellers, and also with some of 

 the inhabitants, to dig for antiquities, and in the depositories 

 of the dead they had the best chance of success. 



The marks of their ctiriosity, avarice, or antiquarian zeal, pre- 

 sented themselves in all directions, but especially on the road to 

 the Piranis, and that to Cape Sunium, in gravesbroken into, and 

 afier having been rifled of their contents, left with the fresh 

 tunied-up earth and fragments scattered round. 



