156 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 1685. 



Trichiasis admodum rara, &c. Lond. ]684. N° 170, p. 986. 



This trichiasis, or flux of hair, continued for some years, both at a fistula 

 in the abdomen, and by the anus, in the following manner. This woman 

 having been gone sonxe months with her second child, came to Dieppe, where 

 carelessly going on board a vessel, she hurt her belly against a plank; this 

 bruise was followed by a tumor which ended in a fistula; whence issued a great 

 quantity of hair, attended with much purulent matter, till at length the viscera 

 were corrupted, and the faeces came that way too, so that she died. Anatomy 

 easily discovered the wonder of her sickness; the contiguous viscera were 

 sphacelated; the right appendix of the womb not distinguishable into its known 

 parts, but consisting of one long tumor, covered with a thick skin, which was 

 opened ; in it was found an oval bony substance, hairy on the upper part, 

 hollow and rough on the lower; one end of which had some lines of a face ; 

 the other seemed designed for the insertion of the vertebrae of the neck. That 

 this body was the source of that succession of hair, is plain from its agreeing 

 with that on the bone; and likewise from the experiment of the author who 

 tells us, the hair continued still to grow, though the bone had been kept a long 

 time in spirit of wine. This conception was in the tuba, for the womb itself 

 was found entire. 



Account of the Sugar made from the Juice of the Maple,* in Canada, 



N° 171, p. 988. 



The savages of Canada, in the season when the sap rises in the maple, make 

 an incision in the tree, by which it runs out; and after they have evaporated 8 

 pounds of the liquor, there remains 1 pound, as sweet and as much sugar, as 

 that which is got out of the canes; part of the same sugar is sent to be refined 

 at Rouen. The savages have practised this art longer than .any, now living 

 among them, can remember. There is made with this sugar a very good 

 syrup of maiden hair, and other capillary plants. 



A Periodical Evacuation of Blood, at the End of the Finger. Dec. 12, l684. 

 [/n a Letter from Mr. Ash.'] N° 171, p. 989. 



Walter Walsh, a temperate man of a sanguine complexion and pleasant 



* The acer saccharinum Linn. Dr. Rush of Philadelphia, lias given a full account of the method 

 of extracting sugar from the juice of this tree, in the 3d vol. of the American Transactions. From 

 23 gallons 1 quart of the juice, 4 lbs. 13 oz. of good grained sugar have been obtained. It is 

 asserted, that it is not inferior in quality to that which is made in the West-Indies from the 

 sugar-cane. 



