602 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1 693-4. 



as likewise the usage of the French, who treat of all subjects in their own 

 tongue. 



II. Phthisiologia Lancastriensis, cui accessit Tentamen Philosophicum de Aquis 

 Miner alibus, &c. Jut. Carolo Leigh,* M. D. Land. 8vo. 1694. N°206, p. 1003. 



After considering the causes and symptoms of phthisis, the author proceeds 

 to lay down his method of cure, adapted to the several varieties and stages of 

 the disorder. In the incipient stage of what he terms phthisis scorbutica he 

 employs emetics, bleeding, resolvents, balsamics, &c. 



In the confirmed stage of this species of consumption, he strongly recom- 

 mends the Peruvian bark, joined with pectoral medicines, directing the patient 

 at the same time to be nourished with eggs, and broths made from veal, chicken, 

 &c. in preference to milk and its preparations. The author then describes his 

 mode of treating the other species of phthisis, viz. phthisis ab haemoptysi, 

 phthisis de vomitu sanguinis, phthisis ab hoemorrhagia uterina, phthisis ab im- 

 petigine, phthisis a rheumatismo scorbulico, phthisis a rhachitide, phthisis a 

 fluore albo, phthisis a chlorosi, and lastly, phthisis chylosa. 



The subjoined essay on mineral waters contains observations on several chaly- 

 beate, saline, sulphureous, and other springs, together with some short remarks 

 on the use of cold baths. 



END OP VOLUME SEVENTEENTH OF THE ORIGINAL. 



Account of the Earthquakes in Sicily, on the Qth and 11th 0/ January, 1692-8. 

 Translated from an Italian Letter, written from Sicily by Fincentius Bona- 

 jutus, and communicated to the Royal Society by Marcellus Malpighius. 

 N°207, p. 2. Fol.XFlIL 



The continual fiery eruptions of ^tna, of which the first that we have any 

 account, happened 500 years before the destruction of Troy, as Diodorus Siculus 

 relates, have been taken for the most likely causes of the horrible shocks that 

 from time to time have laid waste the island of Sicily. One is mentioned by 



* Besides the above-mentioned tract on consumptions. Dr. Charles Leigh wrote Exercitationes de 

 aquis medicatis, raorbis acutis, et morbis intermittentibus j and he has introduced various medical 

 observations and cases into his natural history of Lancashire, (which was his native county,) Cheshire, 

 and Derbyshire. He appears to have employed the Peruvian bark freely and successfully in inter- 

 mittents. He died in the beginning of the 18th century. 



