196 MEMOIRS of the 
Jn Hydrops Peaoris^ by Jifr. Sam. Doudy. Phil. Tranf. 
N° 224. p. 3(;o. 
AKoblc peer had for many years been troubled with an 
extraordinary fliortnefs of breath; his lordfhip was 
iilways better in bed, or lying, than fitting or flanding 3 quite 
contrary to other afthma's, in which the patient is nor able to 
lie down 5 the mufcles of the bread having a freer motion, 
when in an ereft pofturc. Upon opening the body, both the 
cavities of the breaft were found full of water, which, when 
ifanding or fitting, preiTed in fuch a manner on the diaphragm, 
that rejfpiration was performed with difficulry^ but in a lying 
pofture, that floating load was io difpofed, that that funftion 
was better performed 5 this feems to be fo natural a fymptom, 
that it may be almoft an infallible diagnoftic, to diftinguifli an 
Hydrops '^PeBoris from ether more frequent difeafes of the 
breaft, that caufe a flicrtnefs of breathing. Perhaps it may 
not be impraflicable to ufe the ^Pe.raceraefis in the like cafe, 
when the difeafe is certainly known, and without it death is 
moft likely to enfue. 
j4 Scolopendra Marina; ly Dr, Tho. Molyneux. Phil. 
Tranf.K*' 225. p. 405. 
IN Tiecemher^ 1696, two remarkable fea- animals were found 
in the ftomach of a comnion cod-fiih, fold in the fiih-market 
in 2)ublln 5 one of them, by lying long in the ftomach, was 
much mangled, and in part digefted ; but the other was com- 
plete in ail its parts, and had undergone no manner of change, 
fave that it was dead; it was bigger at one end, and went 
tapering, or gradually lefTening towards the other 3 it was four 
inches and fix tenths in length ; and where largeft, as it was 
one inch and one tenth broad, fo it v- as about three inches and 
u half in circumference ; at the fmaller end, not above four 
tenths of an inch broad 3 it had neither /hell, cruft, fcales, 
or bone, for its covering, but was foft, yet not flabby or flefliy, 
as the (j.cihctKict, or JlloUid^ but rather membranous. The back, 
or upper fide was of a roundifh fliape, efpecially towards the 
fides, in the m.iddle it was fomewhat flattened, the belly 
was perfectly plain 3 along the middle of the back there 
ran a large ftripe from one extremity to the other, about 
two tenths of an inch broad, towards the upper end, but 
iliU narrower as it came towards the tali: this ftripe was 
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