VOL. XV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. HQ 



the nature and cure of a peripneumonia, and of its difference from a pleurisy ; 

 of all diseases of the lungs, as gangrene, schirrus, vomica and stones frequently 

 found in them, a case of which latter is subjoined of one who expectorating 

 many of different shapes and sizes, was eased from a dyspnoea, under which he 

 almost mortally laboured. Among pleurisies, there is an account of a periodical 

 one, returning once in 7 weeks. Among the celebrated remedies for it, are 

 antimonium diaphoreticum ; as also a bark in India very powerful, if not a spe- 

 cific in this case : it is called pawo de portada, of a yellowish colour, bitter 

 taste, and a friable consistence ; half an ounce in a glass of wine is the dose. 

 In his histories of consumptions he relates an example of the great contagion 

 of it, which was the infection of a senator's second wife, only by wearing the 

 muff of his first wife, who died of one, though after the distance of above J 2 

 months. He gives a particular account of the famous Cnaeffelius's remedies in 

 this, as he has done in other cases : instances how opium has been very unsuc- 

 cessfully applied in pleurisies, death ensuing the stoppage of the spitting. 



In his 3d book is contained what concerns the abdomen and its parts, of 

 which the oesophagus being considered as the beginning, the preternatural 

 cases of that are first handled; such as its being turned to a cartilage; being 

 obstructed by different causes, and the like; and after the account of several 

 ways deglutition has been hindered, by the histories of men swallowing strange 

 substances, such as money, frogs, knives, &c. In short, there is comprized in 

 this volume, whatever this age and these climates have produced curious in 

 medicine taken from ephemerides and other tracts, and digested under 

 proper heads. 



Johannis Nicolai Pechlini Med. D. P. serenissimi Cimbrice Principis Reg. ArcM- 

 atri, Theophilus Bihaculus, sive de Potu Thece Dialogus. Franc. Ato. l684, 

 N° 1Q7, p. 870. 



This tract, written by way of dialogue, gives an account of thee, or tsia 

 [tea] a shrub growing in most parts of China and Japan. 



After an imperfect description of this shrub, the author proceeds to the con- 

 sideration of its virtues, which is the main object of his treatise. He considers 

 it to be of a bitter, astringent quality; its infusion gives a green colour; but 

 on the mixture of the solution of vitriol, it turns black; whereas chamaedrys, 

 though bitter, is not astringent ; and on such mixture grows green, rather 

 than black. Veronica comes nearest to it, for it gives a good tolerable tinc- 

 ture; and though the taste be not bitter, yet it is very astringent; and it turns 

 black also, like thee, when mixed with the solution of vitriol ; neither do its 

 effects come far short, since it cleanses the kidneys, and strengthens the head 



