J02 On Vegetable Cuttings 



tiered a feton in the neck, as the iffue was dried up. I di- 

 rected alfo bark, columbo, and prepared kaii, to correct aci- 

 dity and brace the fiomacb, as alfo to render the blood more 

 attractive of oxygen, and the body was kept regular with 

 aloetic pills; and this plan ipecdily produced the bleffing of 

 found health, which has continued now upwards of fifteen 

 months, without any disagreeable nervous feiifations, and 

 without a fingle excurfion being made into the country. 



Obfervatiotis on this Cafe. In the cafe of Mr. RiuTely 

 which was melancholia, recorded by Dr. Beddocs, the cure 

 was effected without a feton ; how much are we therefore to 

 attribute to this application in the prefent inftance ? The dry- 

 ins up the iflue by the vital air, when employed alone, did 

 it not denote, from the abforption of this principle, an in- 

 creafed energy of the abforbents ? I have before noticed, 

 that where ferum was difcharged, this has happened; but 

 when matter is fecreted, there is on the contrary a more 

 abundant difchargc, or the ferum is converted into laudable 

 pus. In the cafe of Mr. Fixi'cn, St. Annc's-Street, Weft- 

 minfter, an iffue which could not be made to difcharge, be- 

 gan immediately to pour out matter, upon the omi ence- 

 ment of the inhalation of the medicinal air. The varicofe ins 

 difappearing was a ftrong mark of increafed energ y in the ir- 

 culatingveflels. The numbnefs of the fingers going iff, G swed 

 increafed aelion remote from the heart ; the glow, the increafe 

 of fpirits, all declare in marked expreflions the influence of 

 vital air; and what makes me the more inclined to this opi- 

 nion is, that country air before ufed to afford the only relief. 



XIV. Account of the New Machine invented by the late 

 ]\lr. Custance, for making Vegetable Cut tings for the 

 Micro/cope. Communicated by Dr. Thornton, Lec- 

 turer on Medical Botany at Guy's Hofpital, ofc. <5#c« 



X H E firft idea of making vegetable cuttings to be ex- 

 amined by the microfcope, originated from the famous 



Dr, 



