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sweats ; the blood being glutinous and sizy, as in quinsies and pleurisies, and 

 all Other inflammatory distempers. The fever being increased by the great 

 quantity of alkaline corrosive salts lodging in the blood, causing thirst, &c. and 

 not diluted and washed off by urine, which urine is always thick, turbid, and 

 high coloured, and almost, if not totally devoid of any saline impregnations, 

 as was proved upon analysis. 



A patient had laboured for 7 or 8 days under a total suppression of urine. 

 Upon trying with a catheter, there was not the least appearance of any stone, 

 nor a drop of water in his bladder ; upon which Dr. Baynard caused the patient 

 to take a quantity of acids, which produced a great discharge of urine, and 

 restored him to health. 



^n Extract of a Letter from Bernard Connor,* M. D. to Sir Charles fValgrave, 

 giving an Account of an extraordinary Human Skeleton, having the Vertehrce 

 of the Back, the Ribs, and several Bones down to the Os Sacruin, all firmly 

 united into one solid Bone, without Jointing or Cartilage. N°2l5, p. 21. 



This was not an entire skeleton, but consisted only of the os ilium, the os 

 sacrum, the 5 vertebrae of the loins, 10 of the back, 5 entire ribs on the right 

 side, and 3 on the left ; the bottoms or ends of the other were closely united 

 to the transverse apophyses of their vertebrae. The vertebrae of the neck, the 

 claviculae and sternum were wanting. All these bones which are naturally 

 distinct from each other, were here so straightly and intimately conjoined, their 



* Dr. Bernard Connor was a native of Ireland, and is supposed to have been born in 1666. In 

 l686 he went to Montpellier, where he prosecuted his medical studies, and from thence he removed 

 to Paris. While he was here he was fortunate enough to be appointed travelling physician to the two 

 sons of 'the chancellor of Poland, whom he accompanied to Warsaw, passing through Italy, Austria, 

 Moravia, and Silesia. Not long after his arrival at Warsaw, the King of Poland made him one of 

 his physicians. This honour was conferred upon him when he was only 28 years of age. During 

 bis stay at Warsaw he evinced his medical skill and penetration in several difficult cases, whereby he 

 acquired a great degree of professional celebrity ; but being fond of travelling, and at the same time 

 desirous of returning to England, we are told that he gladly embraced the opportunity of accom- 

 panying, as physician, the King of Poland's daughter, Princess Theresa, who had been married to 

 the Elector of Bavaria, to Brussels. This journey being completed, he quitted the service of the 

 princess, and proceeded through Holland to England. He now resided parlly at Oxford and partly in 

 London, delivering lectures, at both places, on the animal economy. These he rendeied highly in- 

 teresting by ihe introduction of much new information on anatomical, physiological, and chemical 

 lubjects, which he had collected during his travels on the continent. These lectures were afterwards 

 read at Cambridge. At this time he published his Dissertatioiies Medico-physicae de Aniris lethi- 

 feris, de Montis Vesuvii Incendio, &c. of which an account will be found in a subsequent number of 

 these Transactions. In l697 he published a small treatise, entitled Evangelium Medici, which raised 

 him many enemies, especially among the clergy, it being considered as " an attempt to account for 

 the miracles of the Bible upon natural principles." (Gen Biog. Diet.) His last publication was a 

 History of Poland. Dr. Connor died of a fever iCyS, before he had attained his 33d year. 



