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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



375 



Classes 6. Pensioners 20. Pupils 20. French Associates 12. 



f M. L'abbe Galois M. Chevalier 



Geometricians < M. De la Hire M. Lieutaud M. Maraldi 



( M. Roole M. M. Regis 



fM. Cassini M. M. Cassini, Jun. 



Astronomers <M Lefeure M. Amontons M. De la Hire, Jun. 



(.M. Varignon M. Carre 



r M. Desbillettes M. Parent M. De Chazelles 



Mechanicians .... <M. Geaugeon M. D. Seine , M. De Lagiiy 



(.M. Dalerue M. 



f M. Du Hamel M. De Litre M. Tauvry 



.... ) M. Du Verney M. Du Verney his M. Bourdelin, Juu. 



^"^'°'""'* <M.Merrie brother 



( M. Poupart 



fM. Bourdelin M. Thuillier M. L'Anglade 



Chemists iM. Homberg M. GeotFioy M. L' Emery 



(.M. Boulduc M. Boulduc, Jun. 



CM. Dodart M. Burletie M. Morin de Toulon 



Botanists -J M. Marchand M. Reneaume M. Morin de St. Victor. 



I.M. Tournefort M. Berger 



Secretary M. De Fontenelle M. Simon 



Treasurer M. Couplet M. Couplet, Jun. 



Account of a Book, viz. T'he Natural History of the Chalybeate and Purging 

 IVaters of England, with their particular Essays and Uses, &c. tvilh Obser- 

 vations on the Bath IVaters in Somersetshire. By Benj. Allen, M. B. iGpg. 

 N° 251, p. 146. 



This treatise contains an account of the origin and principles of the chaly- 

 beate and purging waters of England, with the trials that have been made of 

 them, and a register of their several virtues and properties. 



Of a Dropsy in one of the Ovaries of a Woman. By Hans Shane, M. D. Sec. 



R.S. N° 252, p. 160. 



Mrs. Browne, aged 29, of a sanguine complexion, had been married about 

 4 years, in which time she had had one child; after that, her belly swelling, 

 she thought herself with child again. She had often violent hysteric fits, 

 something like those of an epilepsy. These, by proper remedies, were removed 

 at several times with difficulty. When about 6 months, as she thought, gone 

 with child, she began to have some doubt whether it were so or not, because 

 she had her catamenia very regularly: I was of opinion she was not with child, 

 and would have treated her with steel and chalybeates of water, as bodies hy- 

 dropically disposed require ; but she fancying she felt the child stir, it put a 

 stop to that course, and she prepared for her lying in. She delayed the proposed 



