934 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO ]6q3. 



more likely that the membrane should be double, and that the outward was 

 preternaturally incrassated, than that a membrane should grow in a place where 

 the sides do not touch. 



^n Account of Books, viz. Ylv^tToKoync, Seu Exercita Hones de Morbis Univer- 

 salibus Mentis, ^uthore Richardo Morton,* Med. D. Regit Collegii Medic. 

 Land. Socio et Censore. Lond. 8vo. i6Q2. N° ]QQ, p. 717' 



This treatise is chiefly valuable for the observations on the Peruvian bark, 

 which " met with great opposition when it was first brought into use at Lon- 

 don. Some physicians cried it down because it performed the cure (of inter- 

 mittents) too soon, as they thought ; others because they could not reconcile 

 the manner of its operation to their hypotheses and doctrine of humours, 

 declaiming against it as a medicine too hot or too dry, or some way or other 

 not qualified for the purpose." After answering these and other objections, the 

 author declares, that he never, in 25 years observation, saw any ill effect from 

 the cortex, except a temporary deafness, which vanished upon the omission of 

 the medicine. He produces many cases in confirmation of these assertions, 

 and concludes his treatise with a history of the remitting fever, which prevailed 

 epidemically from' 1 658 to l6c>2; including also a short mention of the great 

 plague in l665 and 1 666 after which diarrhoeas and dysenteries were the pre- 

 vailing complaints, until 1672; when the measles (more fully described by the 

 author in his second treatise on febrile diseases) became epidemic. 



Catalogus Plantarum Horti ^cademici ^rgejitinensis, in usum Rei Herharia 

 Sludiosorum, adcurante Marco Mappo Med. Doctor e et Professore Seniore, et 

 Archiatro Argentinensi. Argenlorali apudJo. Fredericum Spoor, 1691, l2mo. 

 N° 199, p. 729. 

 A catalogue of plants cultivated in the botanic garden at Strasburg, at the 



date above-mentioned. 



Stephani Chauvini Lexicon Rationale, sive Thesaurus Philosophicus, &c. Roto- 

 rod. folio, 1692. N° I99, p. 731. 



This philosophical dictionary is contrived in an alphabetical order, and is 



* Richard Morton was the son of a clergyman, and was brought up to the church, having studied 

 divinity at Oxford ; but he afterwards quitted theology for physic. He died in 1 6y8. Besides the 

 Pyretologia above-raenlioned, he wrote a treatise on consumptions, entitled Phthisiologia, which 

 comprehends the different species of tabes as well as pulmonary consumption. 



These treatises of his have at various times been reprinted collectively abroad, viz. at Amsterdam. 

 Ceneva^ aiid Venice, ui\der the title of Opera omnia. 



