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ther in fingle oblique lines, like fo many rays from a point • 
the nerves were all regular and plain, only the olfadory were 
very Tniall^ the optic nerves did not join before they entred the 
orbits 5 the RetemlraOlk was very large, and fo was Dr. Ridley's 
circular Sl/ius 3 on the right fide were two carotid arteries, the 
inrercoftal nerve lying between them, and they entered the 
IcuU at the fame hole ^ the trunk of the vertebral, where thole 
arteries unite, was extremely large, and full of blood- the 
veins were neither larger nor more in number than ufual • Mr. 
Friend could eafily difcern three or four lymphatics upon the 
brain, over the lateral ventricles, but they were too fmall too 
be traced : Whether this great effufion of water was caufed by 
an obil:ru6lion in the capillary arteries (which might make the 
finer part of the Serum ouze thro' their coats ) or by a rupture 
in the lymphatics, Mr. Friend could not determine'. 
' The mother of the child brought it to Osford, for a fliew • 
the account flie gave of it was, that fiie had been three weeks 
in travail, and that at lafl Hie v.'as obliged to have the Va^ine^ 
ript for its pafTage ; the child was two years and fix weeks old» 
it could fpeak a little, it could neither walk, nor hold up its 
head, it was always merry, never fubjeft ro drowfinefs, pain 
in the head, want of appetite, or mdisreftion; its fight was 
fomewhat dim, and its fmelling but indifferent 5 it never had any 
illnels, only two or three days before it died, it was very much 
troubled with the gripes, and upon opening the Abdomen^ 
the guts were found extremely fwelled with wind 3 everything 
elfe in both the lower cavities was in its natural ftate. By 
comparing thole two Hydrocephalic which Pulpitis gives an 
account of, with this, we may fee how different each of them 
is from it; hisfirft was a boy five years old, the Icull no larger 
than a man's, and contained only five pints of water j the brain 
had lofl all its fiiape, and moft of its fubftance, the relicks 
of which ftuck to the fcull 3 and all he fays of the fecond is, 
that it had a quart of water in one of the lateral ventricles. 
Cures performed by Mr. Greatrix the Streaker. Phil. Tranf. 
K°. 25<7. p. 332. 
Lad of about 14. years of age, was fiezed with a violent 
pain in his head and back 3 Mr. Greatrix ordered him to 
ftrip to his Ihirt, and he prefentiy removed the pain in his head, 
by only ftroakmg it with his hands 5 he fell to rub his back, 
which he mod complained of, but the pain immediately fled 
from his hand to his right thigh 5 then he purfued it with his 
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