118 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. . ["aNNO 1 684-3. 



ther evident, that there are such passages from divers marine heterogeneous 

 substances, that have been found in digging deep underground, such as shell- 

 fish, &c. Where by the way he discourses of divers such indraughts there are 

 in the sea, more particularly of the fluxus moschonicus, or Maalstroome, on 

 the coast of Norway, and believes there must be some such vast charybdis, 

 beside that on the coast of Sicily, in the mediterranean, which must swallow all 

 the water which perpetually flows into it, otherwise it must needs overflow the 

 low land of Egypt.* 



Aledicina Septentrionalis Collatitia, s. Rei medico nuperis annis d Medicls Anglis, 

 Germanis et Danis emissce Sylloge et Syntaxis. Opera Theophili Boneti.-\- D. M. 

 cum hidicibiLS et Figuris necessariis. Gen. fol. iQSb. N° 167, p. 866. 



This author designing a body of the law of nature, in imitation of that of 

 the civil law, to his two former volumes subjoins this, the intent of which is 

 to show how much physic is indebted for its improvement to these northern 

 nations. The instruments of which have been the Royal Society of England, 

 afterward copied by our neighbouring nations ; Paracelsus opened the way, and 

 was followed by Helmont, Harvey, Lower, Bartholin, Malpighi, Wharton, 

 Willis, Betts, Schneider, Steno, Sylvius and others. The book is divided ac- 

 cording to the usual partition of the body of man, into three parts. The first 

 contains the diseases incident to the head, under which he treats of the plica 

 polonica, and brings instances of monstrous births, and afterwards considers 

 the affections of the eyes. 



The 2d book treats of the diseases of the mouth and breast, where among 

 other things is a discourse concerning an infallible way of preserving a man from 

 infection, though he converse constantly with all sorts of persons infected; the 

 way is no more than forbearing to swallow the saliva.;}: He here treats largely of 



* Dr. Halley has shown that the exhalations from tlie Mediterranean, are fully sufficient to cariy 

 off all the waters that run into it by the rivers. 



+ This learned and industrious physician (Bonet or Bonnet) was a native of Geneva, where he 

 was bom in I62O. For some years he was engaged in considerable practice; but was at length 

 obliged to give it up in consequence of a loss of hearing. After this misfortune, he dedicated 

 his leisure to the compilation of several valuable and extensive works, (besides that above reviewed) 

 the chief of which are as follow: Labyrinthus Med. extricat. sive methodus vitand, errorum in 

 praxi, 4to.; Sepulchretum sive Anatome practica, fol.j Mercurius Compilatitius sive Index Medico- 

 practicus, folio. Of these, the Sepulchretum is by far the most valuable work. It was first pub- 

 lished in 1679. and afterwards re-edited with considerable additions, by Manget, in 2 vols. fol. 1700« 

 It has been only surpassed by a similar work of Morgagni's, (De Sedibus et Causis Morbor.) published 

 more than half a century afterwards. 



J That this alone does not always afford a sufficient security against infection, has been mentioned 

 in a note at p. 493, voL.ii, of this Abridgment. 



