154 ^ PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I674. 



with the method of the learned Hudden, contained in the annexa to the first 

 part of Descartes's geometry; which seems indeed to be a corollary of Slusius's 

 general method of tangents, published in N° 90 of these tracts. — The third is 

 an Auctarium Trigonometriae, to solve and demonstrate triangles, both rectilinear 

 and spherical. 



III. Logica, sive Ars Cogitandi, e Tertia apud Gallos Editione recognita et 

 aucta, in Latinum versa. Lond, 1674, in 8vo. 



This logic being now turned into good Latin, seems worthy to be recom- 

 mended to all young students ; as, omitting what is useless and pedantic, and 

 comprehending what is indeed sober, and necessary to direct our reason in all 

 sorts of ingenious and useful sciences. 



An Observation, made hy the Learned Dr. Sampson, of a Man Anatomized, 

 ivhose Bowels were found inverted. N° 107, p. 146. 



Mr. J. D. formerly a minister in Yorkshire, was troubled with a cough, and 

 other complaints; for relief against which he took a journey to London, for the 

 most part on foot : he lived not above a fortnight after he came up. In his 

 sickness he was much addicted to drink brandy, which hastened his death. I 

 opened his body with the assistance of two other physicians. 



We observed his limbs to be much macerated ; his belly was swelled with 

 some inequality, especially in the tract of the right muscles : a considerable 

 quantity of water was taken out of it ; his guts inflamed, and extended with 

 wind; his gall very viscid; his lungs inflamed, and beset with divers glandules. 

 But that which most of all surprised us, was the inverted order of his bowels : 

 his liver, which was very large, lay in the left hypochondre, and his spleen in 

 the right; the cone of his heart was on the right side, and accordingly, the 

 larger and thinner ventricle was found on the left; and the thick one, which 

 in others is on the left side, was in him on the right. The great artery de- 

 scended on the right side, and the vena cava ascended by his liver on the left. 

 The oesophagus descended to the first orifice of the stomach on the right side, 

 which made the pylorus and entrance of the pancreas be on the left, and the 

 first flexure of the small guts to be towards the right : so that the beginning of 

 the colon with its appendicula, lay at the left os ilion, and the flexura sigmoidaea 

 towards the right. Other things, that necessarily followed this site, need not 

 be mentioned. 



It was forgot to inquire, on which side the lacteous thoracic duct ascended, 

 or where it ended ; or on which side the recurrent nerves took their places of 

 returning about the trunks of the great artery and the axillary; nor had we time 

 to do it. — ^This person was never observed in his life time to have any distemper. 



