Case of Ptyaltsm. 119 



tinued until sometime in the night ; and in the morn- 

 ing his mouth and gums were sore. A ptyalism 

 commenced : on the second day, it was profuse, his 

 breath had the mercurial fetor, and his gums the 

 common appearance. These symptoms continued 

 three or four days, and then subsided. 



Mr. F. had taken no medicine, of any kind, previ- 

 ously to my seeing him. Nor was there any in the 

 house. 



I had seen so many symptoms produced by gout, 

 particularly in your own case, that I was prepared for 

 almost any thing : but, really, this case was so sin- 

 gular that I could not but merftion it. 



Elizabeth-Town, August 50th, 

 1805. 



XXI. Observations on the Growth and Propagation of 

 a Proliferous Onion. By the late Mr. Isaac Gray, 

 of Kingsessing, near Philadelphia, Communicated 

 to the Editor (in 17 94- J by the late Mr. David 



RiTTENHOUSE. 



IN the year 1780, a friend of mine presented 

 jtne with a full-grown bulb of this onion. He said it 

 was a curiosity of the culinary kind, in the vegetable 

 creation ; and such it certainly is, in this part of the 

 world : for few of them, as yet, have been cultivated 

 here. But, perhaps, it may be deemed more curious, 



