30 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1665. 



very large round hole, into which there entered from the brain one pretty large 

 optic nerve. The tunica sclerotica which contained the united eyes was one 

 and the same, but appeared to have a seam (by which the junction was formed) 

 going quite round the ball, the anterior pellucid part of which was distinctly 

 separated into two corneae by a white seam. Each cornea had a distinct iris 

 and pupil ; and on opening the eye there were found two crystalline humours. 

 The other parts could not be well distinguished, as the eye had been much 

 bruised by handling. 



Ohservablcs in the Body of the Earl of Balcarras. Anonymous, 



N' 5, p. 86. . 



The appearances in the heart of this nobleman were very remarkable. On 

 opening the pericardium, none of that liquor was found which (in a healthy 

 state) lubricates the heart. The external surface of the heart from its base 

 to its apex was very rough. Being cut asunder, a quantity of white and in- 

 spissated fluid ran out ; and beneath the base, between the right and left ven- 

 tricle, two stones were found, one as big as an almond, the other two inches 

 long and one broad, having three auricles or crisped angles. In the orifice of 

 the right ventricle there was a fleshy fattish matter. The whole body was 

 bloodless, emaciated, and of a black and bluish colour.* 



Of the designed Progress to he made in the Breeding of SilhwormSy 

 and the Making of Silk, in France. N" 5, p, 87. 



The French King Henry the Fourth having made a general establishment 

 all over France for planting and propagating of mulberry- trees, and for breeding 

 silkworms, in order to set up and entertain a silk trade there ; and having 

 prospered so well in that design, that in many parts of his dominions great 

 stores of such trees were raised, and multitudes of silkworks propagated, to the 

 great benefit of the French people, forasmuch as it was a considerable begin- 

 ning to avoid the transport of several millions abroad for buying of silks, and 

 withal an excellent means of well- employing abundance of poor orphans and 

 widows, and many old, lame, and other indigent and helpless people ; the 

 present French king has lately revived and seconded that undertaking, by 

 giving express order that it .should be promoted by all possible means, and 



* It is to he regretted that this account of the appearances on dissection was not accompanied with a 

 history of the symptoms. The disease appears to have been an inflammation (followed by suppuration) 

 of the heart, excited by the irritation arising from the large calculi formed within it. The " white 

 ifl.spissated fluid/' seems to have been pus ; and the " fleshy fattish matter," a polypus. 



