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dymis are 2 glgnds exactly round, each as large as a grain of millet. I am much 

 inclined to think this little globule is a testicle. 



Along every side of the intestine is a white canal, or ovarium, of the size of 

 a small twisted thread, and variously folded, to which are fastened with a tail, 

 many little globules exactly round, as large as a small pea, full of a milky juice, 

 and some little white eggs, gristly and perfectly round, as large as a grain of 

 millet, hard, which are with difficulty broken, making a noise, and full of a 

 white matter. 



There is in the intestine towards the end, a great valve fashioned like a heart, 

 with 2 little bags, where begin 1000 small channels made of fine yellow fat, 

 which fill the cavity of the intestine for half an inch. It is probable that these 

 passages of fat receive the prolific liquor, to conduct it into the ovarium, by 

 ways unknown. 



Of a venomous Scratch with, the Tooth of a Porpus, its Symptoms and Cure. 

 By Dr. Martin Lister, F. of the Coll, of Physicians, and R.S. Translated 

 from the Latin. N" 233, p. 726. 



In dissecting a porpus, that had been dead at least 3 days, I accidentally scratched 

 the inside of my finger, so slightly as not to fetch blood, against one of the 

 teeth. I felt no inconvenience from this accident until 4 days afterwards ; 

 when the finger put on a livid appearance, and was somewhat swoln at the 

 joint. This affection spread daily, so that in the space of 4 more days 2 fingers 

 were diseased ; and at length, 3. I tried various applications by the advice of 

 surgeons but without relief; till at length the disorder extended to the hand, and 

 the wrist began to be painful. Its further progress, however, was now arrested 

 by a fotnentation composed of aq. sperm, ran. ^vj, bol. armen. giss. vitriol, 

 alb. §iv. applied warm twice a day. Sometimes the application was varied in 

 the following manner: R vitriol, alb. combust, bol. armen. an §iv. camph. 

 §j. ap. common. Ibviij. Afterwards by applying the ung. nutritum, and over 

 that an emplastr. ex bolo et diapalm. I recovered from this extraordinary acci- 

 dent. Besides the livid appearance, a proof of something poisonous, I was 

 affected with a most troublesome and distressing itching, or rather a hot smart- 

 ing sensation, both day and night. The whole of the cuticle belonging to the 

 diseased parts peeled off; and it was not till after some months that the use of 

 my fingers was completely restored. 



On a medicated Spring in Glamorganshire. By Mr. Auhry, F. R. S. 



N°233, p. 727. 



In Lancarim is a medicated spring, long frequented from several counties, 



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