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appearance.] 7» An account of a horny substance grown out, near the last two 

 short ribs, to a considerable length, resembling the horn of a young deer. 8. A 

 way of making a person born deaf to hear. 9. Of an egg naturally bred in an 

 egg ; of stones naturally found included in stones, &c. &c. 10. Of a child born 

 dropsical. 11. Of a child of one year old so diseased with the hydrocephalus, 

 that when opened there were taken out of his head 36 ounces of clear but saltish 

 water. 12. Of worms let out by venesection and urine. 13. Of the periodi- 

 cal head-ach. 14. An observation concerning the vincetoxicum or swallow- 

 wort, and its use in scrophula and dropsies. 15. Of a foetus tinged yellow by 

 saffron in the uterus. 16. Of several stones come away together with the blood 

 of a man 72 years of age, when blooded in the arm. 17. Of a sort of craw- 

 fish, which taste bitter when boiled. 18. Of a flame broken out of several 

 stomachs, and burning like spirit of wine, both in dead animals and living men. 

 ig. A way of dwarfing men, by anointing their back-bones in their very infancy 

 with the grease of moles, bats, and dormice ; together with an intimation of thfe 

 art used at Bononia to dwarf their dogs, by often washing (from the first day 

 they are whelped) their feet and back-bone ; thereby drying and hardening those 

 parts, and so hindering their extension. 20. An abscess in the abdomen cured 

 by an incision made about four inches under the ribs. 21 . Of many odd exam- 

 ples of women and men greedy to eat very strange things. 22. Of making 

 chylous water, without any disease in the kidneys or bladder, in an atrophy of 

 the whole body. 23. Of an American aloe, planted in Silesia, and remaining 

 steril for 3 1 years, but after that time shooting out very many branches and 

 flowers; its chief stem 18 feet high, bearing 21 branches, whereof some had 

 above 200 flowers. 24. Of two rare symptoms about the sight. 25. An ob- 

 servation of a muscus terrestris (ground moss) which being gathered in August 

 and September, and reduced to powder, fulminates when held or blown into a 

 flame. 26. Of a nobleman in Silesia, who was so strong, that with his hands 

 alone he could break a horse-shoe and a rix-dollar, and hold at one and the 

 same time three men, two under his arras, and one by his teeth fastened in his 

 clothes, &c. &c. 27. Of abezoar-stone encompassing a dart, found in the emperor's 

 repository. 28. Of eels being viviparous. 29. Of an hermaphrodite stockfish, 

 having both melt and rowe, as also of two crocodiles of both sexes. 30. Of a 

 strange antipathy to music in a man. 31. Of light inbred in the insect called 

 scolopendra, shining in the dark, and sparkling when compressed. 32. Several 

 observations concerning the milk diet against the gout. 33. Of mercury crouded 

 into the crural vein of a dog, to the quantity of half an ounce, without any hurt 

 appearing in the animal. 34. Of a jasper-stone wormeaten. 



