140 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1685. 



served the weather here at Oxford every day of the month, seven years toge- 

 ther, viz. from Jan. 1337 to Jan. 1344; the MS. copy of which observations 

 are yet remaining in the Bodleian library, and doubtless it was some such con- 

 sideration as this that induced Erasmus Bartholin to make observations of the 

 weather every day of the month through the whole year 1671, which are printed 

 inter Acta Medica Tho. Bartholini. 



Abstract of a Letter from Dr. Peirce of Bath, giving an Instance of the Ejects 

 of the Bath, in curing the Falsi/ and Barrenness. N° 169, p. g44. 



Among the many diseases these waters have been noted for, the cure of 

 palsies and barreimess are two : an instance of both in one person is the fol- 

 lowing. A gentlewoman, of about 30 or 33 years of age, having been married 

 about 10 or 12 years, and never with child, was suddenly seized with a palsy on 

 the left side; for which, after 8 or 10 months trial of other means to little pur- 

 pose, she was brought to the bath, where, after the usual preparations, and 

 some internal means, she continued that season, about 6 weeks. The winter 

 coming on, she was forced to desist; but returned again early the next year, 

 and continued with us the whole summer, and recovered, in great measure, 

 the use of her arm, and hand, leg, and tongue, and also, in a few weeks after 

 she returned to her husband, conceived with child, and had, at about a year 

 and a half distance between them, 5 children following. She has had no return 

 of a palsy, but is infirm, I think consumptive; she is now about 51 years of 

 age. 



paroli Drelincurtii* Experimenta Anatomica, quibus adjecta sunt plurima Curiosa 

 super Semine Ftrili, Fcemineis Ovis, Ulero, Uterique Tubis, atque Fcetu. Lugd. 

 Bat. l684, ilmo. N° 169, p. 945. 



The chief part of this book contains accounts of experiments on dogs, in 

 which occur the following observations. A mastiff bled 5 lb. Troy weight, of 



* Charles Dreliiicourt, who acquired great celebrity by his anatomical writings, was a native of 

 Paris, where he was bom in 1633. He studied at Montpelier, took his doctor's degree there, and 

 was afterwards appointed chief physician to the forces under the command of Marshal Turenne, dur- 

 ing the campaign in Flanders. He afterwards settled at Paris, where he got into considerable prac- 

 tice, which, however, he relinquished in 1668 for a professorsliip at Leyden. Besides the work 

 above noticed, the following are among his principal tracts, viz. Diatribe de Partu Octimestrij De 

 Conceptu adversaria; De Conceptu Conceptus; LibitinaeTropoea; Apologia Medica; Praeludia Ana- 

 tomica; de Humani Foet. Merabran. These, with some other tracts, were republished collectively, 

 about 30 years after his death, under the title of Opuscula Medica, 4to. 1727, with an account of 

 the author's life, by Boetbaave, who had been one of his pupils, and who never mentioned him but 



