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plied to them. And concludes with expressing his hopes and expectations that 

 Mr. Newton's methods to this purpose, long since contrived, but not yet pub- 

 lished in print, will now shortly be made public. 



V Art de tailler, &c. The Art of pruning Fruit Trees, and a Tract on the Use 

 of Fruits of Trees, for preserving us in Health, or for curing m when we are 

 sick. Translated from the French Original of a Physician of Rochelle. 

 London, inSvo. l685. N° l63, p. 733. 



The author of this book having taken a particular delight in the cultivation 

 of fruit trees, and in considering the use of their fruits, gives here the rules 

 which many years experience has taught him on those subjects, viz. the cultiva- 

 tion and ordering of the trees, with the uses and management of the fruits. 



Tkvo Letters from t/iat experienced Oculist, Dr. Turherville, of Salisbury, to Mr. 

 William Musgrave, S. P. S. of Oxon, containing several remarkable Cases in 

 Physic, relating chiefly to the Eyes. N° 164, p. 736. 



The first Letter, dated London, Aug. 4, l684. — The disease which, in some 

 late discourse with you, I named bursa oculi, or the pouch of the eye, was a 

 bag without matter in it, like an empty purse, on the white of the eye, under 

 the upper lid, it hung flag about the length of a thumb nail. Another person 

 had no visible disease in his eyes, but could not see at all, unless he squeezed 

 his nose with his fingers, or saddled it with narrow spectacles, and then he saw 

 very well ; him I carried to Mr. Boyle as a fit subject for so great a philosopher 

 to make his remarks on. 



A maid, 22 or 23 years old, came to me from Banbury, who could see very 

 well, but no colour beside black and white. She had such scintillations by 

 night, with the appearances of bulls, bears, &c. as terrified her very much; 

 she could see to read sometimes in the greatest darkness for almost a quarter of 

 an hour. 



The second Letter, dated Sarum, Oct. 5, l684. — A saddler's daughter of Bur- 

 ford, had an impostume which broke in the corner of one of her eyes, out of 

 which came about 30 stones, splendid, and as large as pearls. 



A person in Salisbury had a piece of iron or steel stuck in the iris of the 

 eye, which I endeavoured to push out with a small spatula, but could not; but 

 on applying a loadstone it immediately jumped out. 



Another person had for a long time been troubled with a great pain and con- 

 vulsions in his cheek ; you might cover the place where the pain was with a 

 penny; the convulsions drew his mouth, face, and eye, aside: he had used 



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