200 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I667 . 



one place, where he endeav^oured to separate it from the midrifF, he hit upon a 

 thinner bag, whence issued out two or three spoonfuls of clear water. The 

 mediastinum was either wholly wasted or else woven into the thickness of the 

 bag, as was also the pleura, as far as the bag reached. It lay loose and flapping 

 from the left axilla to the chest, having been before filled and distended either 

 with lenid or the liquor. All the hollow was wet with the liquor, as that lobe 

 of the lungs which should have been on the right side was gone, and that on 

 the left wasted to near a third part. In the lower belly all was well.* 



Ttvo other Anatomical Observations, By the same Author. 



In the first of these observations it is stated, that a servant-man, of a dull 

 melancholy disposition, who died at the age of 27, after having been in a drop- 

 sical state the four preceding years, was found, on opening the body, to have 

 the left lobe of the lungs almost quite wasted, but without any ulcer. The lobe 

 of the liver which rests on the diaphragm was black outwardly for about a hand's 

 breadth, and a thumb's breadth within the parenchyma. Other parts sound. 



The second observation mentions, that in the body of a felon, he noticed 

 that the right vas prseparans (arteria spermatica) sprang clearly from the right 

 emulgent ; whereas ordinarily the vas praeparans arises on the right side out of 

 the aorta, as on the left out of the emulgent. 



Divers Instances of Peculiarities of Nature, both in Men and Brutes. 

 By the same. N" 29, />. 549- 



1 . An asthmatic patient being advised to take a spoonful of honey, was im- 

 mediately affected with an universal swelling, as if he had swallowed poison. It 

 being suspected that something hurtful might have been mixed with the honey, 

 a fresh quantity was procured from another place, which however on being 

 swallowed produced the very same effect. 



2. A clergyman of Metigham in Suffolk, about 40 years of age, who was 

 accustomed to drink warm or rather hot beer, riding out in Midsummer, stopped 

 at a house at some distance from home, and was offered a cup of cold beer, 

 which he drank; and then got on his horse and rode on; but soon fell sick, and 

 afterwards vomited. By the time he got to his journey's end, his vomiting in- 



* This appears to have been a large abscess formed between the pleura and the ribs, and between 

 the pleura and the muscular substance^ of the diaphragm. The bag or cyst was the pleura itself, 

 which invests these and other parts of the cavity of the chest. 



