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explaining also with exactness the Keplerian hypothesis of the planets, and sub- 

 joining the astronomical hypotheses of Ward, Bulliald, and his own, which last 

 he esteems new, and according to which he teaches how to make a calculus ^ 

 priori, comparing the same with good observations. The whole he concludes 

 with the exposition of the late discoveries made in the heavens. 



II. Observations sur les Eaux Minerales de plusieurs Provinces de France, 

 faites enl'Academie Royale des Sciences, en I'annee 1670, et 1671, par le Sieur 

 du Clos, Conseiller et Medecin ordinaire du Roy, de la dite Academic. A 

 Paris, 1675, in llvno. 



This account of mineral waters, like all other treatises thereon published at this 

 period of time, is filled either with vague conjectures or erroneous assertions. 

 Among the modern descriptions and analyses of the mineral waters of France, 

 those by Cadet, Bayen, Venel, Deyeux, Carrere, Fourcroy, &c. deserve to be 

 particularly consulted. 



III. Cochlearia Curiosa, or the Curiosities of Scurvy-grass, written in Latin 

 by Dr. Andr. Molimbrochius of Leipsig, and translated by Dr. Th. Sherley, 

 Physician in ordinary to his Majesty. Lond. in 8vo. 1676. 



Scurvy-grass is not now in that high estimation in which it formerly stood. 



IV. Two Treatises, the one Medical, of the Gout ; by Herman Busschof, 

 Senior, of Utrecht, residing at Batavia in the East Indies ; the other partly 

 Chirurgical, partly Medical, containing some Observations and Practices re- 

 lating to some Extraordinary Cases of Women in Travail, and to some other 

 uncommon Cases of Diseases in both Sexes ; by Hen. van RoonhuysCj Physi- 

 cian in ordinary at Amsterdam. Translated from the Dutch. London, in 8vo. 

 1676. 



In the 1 st of these treatises, the author after giving it as his opinion, that 

 the seat of the gout is within the periosteum, proceeds to describe from experi- 

 ence, both made upon himself and others, the cure of the gout, by burning 

 with a soft and woolly substance, called moxa, made by a skilful preparation 

 of a certain dried herb, highly valued by the Chinese and Japonese ; of which 

 he sent over a quantity to his brother at Utrecht, from whence Mr. Pitt, in St. 

 Paul's Church-yard, has procured a parcel for the use of those that are desirous 

 to employ it, not only for this purpose of curing the gout, but also for that of 

 removing epilepsy, madness, and catalepsy. 



The other treatise contains several happy cures of strange ruptures and other 

 remarkable accidents of the womb ; the manner of performing the Caesarean 

 section, of curing the falling down of the womb, of curing wombs closed, and 

 several closures of the vagina uteri, of a happy cure of a child's fundament 

 closed, and of the rupture of a bladder ; of the firm union of the dura mater to 



