2 go Katural Hljlory, — Medicine. 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



C. Guerfant, profcffor of natural hiftorv at Rouen, tranf- 

 mitted lately to C. Cuvier, for ihe purpofe < >f e.xamina'ion, a 

 quantity of bones found in the rocks n the environs of 

 Honfleur, by the late Abbe Bachclet, and which belonged 

 to the cabinet of the central fchool of Rouen. C. Cuvier 

 has difcovered among thefe bones rhofe of a kind of croco- 

 dile, hitherto unknown, and very different from the foffil 

 animal of Maeftricht, which fome confider as a crocodile 

 alfo. The jaw-bones of this crocodile of Honfleur refemble in 

 their prolongation thole of the cavial, only the teeth are not 

 fo equal, and the futures of the bones are differently figured. 

 The moft linking difference is in the yertebrsej thole of all 

 the known crocodiles have the anterior tace of their body 

 concave, and the poftcrior convex ; in that of Honfleur it is 

 precifely the contrary. The apophyfes of thefe vertebrae are 

 alfo more complex than in the ordinary crocodiles. 



This anim 1 appears to be about i8 feet in length ; its 

 bones are petrified, and ftrike fire with fteel. Their hollow 

 parts are filled with pyrites. Thev were found in a marley 

 kind of ftone, very hard, of a grayifli colour, and from which 

 thev could not be difengaged without difficulty. Bcfklcs the 

 bones of this crocodile, C. Cuvier has found others which 

 feem to arile from fmali animals of the cetaceous kind. 



M R D I C I N E . 



The following account of a very fingular difeafe which 

 attacks men and animals in the province of Chiacas, in the 

 government of Potofi, is extracted from the journal of Lima: 

 *•' The maladv, which Dr. Como Rueno calls Jurioja locura, 

 is one of the mo ft remarkable facts in the hiftory of this 

 province. It is chiefly in the village of Tutari that it at- 

 tacks men and animals, but among the latter thofe (fuch as 

 the ox, horfe, flieep, &c.) which have been brought from 

 Europe ; for the vigogne, the guanaco, and other quadrupeds 

 of the Country, are not expofed to it. No force can r^eurain 



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