286 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1668. 



ously as branches of the trunks do when bored ? What side of the tree affords 

 most sap ? Of what age trees afford most sap ? What are the best seasons of 

 the year for taking the sap of every kind of tree in greatest quantity ; and how 

 long that season lasts ? Whether the sap comes more copiously at one time of 

 the day or night than another ? Whether trees affbrd any considerable juice in 

 the fall ? What eff'ect copiousness or scarcity of rain has on the sap of trees ? 

 Whether the nature of a tree may be changed by applications of juices or li- 

 quors to the roots or other parts ? Whether a tree whose root is covered from 

 rain and not watered, if the branches of it be exposed to the air, will grow ? 

 Whether inoculated roots of a tree will grow ? How short the arms of the 

 roots of a tree may be cut, and the tree still grow ? How deep the several 

 kinds of trees are to be set in the ground to grow? Whether a seed being 

 planted either way, it will grow equally ? Whether the stem of a tree being set 

 in the earth, and the root turned up into the air, the tree will grow ? 



Extract of a Letter written hy Dr. Fairfax to the Editor, concerning 

 a Bullet voided hy Urine. N" 40, p. 803. 



G. Eliot of Mendlesham in Suffolk, a pale, middle aged, full bodied woman, 

 sorely afflicted for some years with a torment of the bowels, was prevailed upon 

 by a neighbour who had suffered much in the like case, to swallow two fit 

 bullets, which gave her immediate ease ; but afterwards her pains returned and 

 increased, and she having many conflicts for about 15 years, then applied her- 

 self to my apothecary, Mr. Gibson of Stow-market, who administered to her in 

 the fit a dose of Lady Holland's powder, which she took in posset drink in the 

 morning, was moved gently by it in the afternoon, spent that night in torture 

 of body with vomitings, and next morning, during the use of the chamber- 

 pot, together with the urine there came that from her, which giving a twang 

 against the side of the vessel, surprised her with wonder what it should be; and 

 the urine being poured off" gradually, there was left in it a heavy and (to appear- 

 ance) gravelly stone of a colour between yellow and red, near as big as one's 

 thumb's end (as she confidently asserts to me ;) but making use of a hammer, 

 and knocking off" the outer parts of its crust, they came at a bullet inclosed in 

 it of a kind of brazen colour on the outside; but cutting a little with a knife it 

 proved lead within : which being discovered could easily be accounted for. 

 Asking her if no inquiry had been made of such a bullet's coming from her be- 

 fore, she told me that some days after she took them the stools had been 

 slightly examined, but finding neither, they gave over search. Being farther 

 asked about the size of the bullet, she told me it was apparently larger when 

 she took it, than when she voided it. The state of her body in reference to 

 the stone being inquired into, she said, that she had, before and since that 



