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hearing no further noise he went on his journey, liaving in going and coming 

 back spent IQ days by the way, and felt 40 times an earthquake : and since his 

 return from the mountains he has felt the like shakings 208 times. 



Extract of a Letter from Dr. James Burr ough to Mr. Houghton, F.R.S. con- 

 cerning a Bulimia. N° 264, p. 598. 



About a month ago at Stanton, a labouring man of a middle age, had for 

 some time so inordinate an appetite, that I had it attested by an eye-witness, 

 that he eat up an ordinary leg of veal roasted at a meal ; and fed at such an 

 extravagant rate for many days together. He would eat sow-thistles and other 

 herbs as greedily, during the time his (SaX.'f^i'a lasted, as beasts which use such 

 food. I am told he voided divers worms as long as an ordinary tabacco-pipe, 

 and some of them thicker than its shank. After which his appetite declined by 

 degrees till it came to be of a common rate with that of others. He cannot do 

 so good a day's work now as he was wont, but has almost recovered his wonted 

 strength again. 



Responsio Almi Collegii Romanorum Archiatrorum ad Epislolas Clariss. D. Ray- 

 mundi Fieussens, M. D. Monspel. in qua potissimum agitur De Existentia Salis 

 Acidi in Sanguine, et de Proporlione Principiorum ejusdem. Scripta per Jo. 

 Mariam Lancisi dim S. D. Innocentis XL Med. i^c. N° 204, p. 599. 



It is here objected that the acid spirit which M. Vieussens obtained in his 

 experiments on human blood, might come from the bolar earth which he em- 

 ployed in the distillations ; and secondly, that the proportions of alkaline salt, &c. 

 assigned by M. V. to the different parts of the blood, do not accord with the 

 experiments and observations of Mr. Boyle; and that in fact it seems impossible 

 to assign any general and fixed proportions of the ingredients whereof the 

 several parts of the blood are composed, considering that they must vary not 

 a little in different subjects, and in different climates. 



An Account of Books, viz. — 7. Dissertatio Anatomico-Medica de Motu Bilis Cir- 

 ciilari, ejusque Morbis, quam piiblice olim liahuit Mauritius Fan Reverhorst, 

 Medic. Cand. Lugd. Bat. nunc Professor Anatoniicus HagiE Comitis, &vo. 

 N° 264, p. 610. 



This is a second edition of a dissertation concerning the [supposed] circu- 

 lation of the bile, in which is an anatomical description of the liver and all its 

 parts, illustrated with a figure of its internal and external lymphatics. 



