504 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1700. 



II. Pharmacopceia Harlemensis Sennlus ^uctoritate munita. Harlemi apud fVil- 

 lielmum VanKessel, i^c. 1693, \2mo. N° 26^1, p. 6l2. 



A Letter from Dr. P. Silvestre, of the Coll. of Phy. etF.R.S. to the Publisher, 

 giving an Account of some New Booh and Manuscripts in Italy. N° 264, p. 6 1 3. 



Four extraordinary Medico- Surgical Cases. By Mr. Greenhill. N° 265, p. 6 1 7. 



Francis Butler's lady being afflicted with a large and painful tumor of the 

 umbilicus, consulted Mr. Knowles and Dr. Eels about it, who from some very 

 odd symptoms were dubious both of the nature and consequence of it, and un- 

 willing to open it. However, soon after it broke of itself, and discharged a 

 great quantity of prune stones, and notwithstanding all the care that could be 

 taken of it, she died in about 20 days. 



Mr. Knowles being called to open a youth, who died, as was supposed, of the 

 colic and convolvulus, found the caecum vastly extended, and stuffed with 

 abundance of cherry-stones, which thus were proved to be the occasion of his 

 death. 



A servant to Sir Anthony Keck, complained of a pain and hardness in his 

 right side, which had continued more or less for 12 years, and was observed to 

 approach daily nearer the skin. This encouraged him to have it opened, and 

 an incision being made, I plucked out a rusty wire with my forceps, when 

 upon a nice examination we found it to be a broken needle, which he thought 

 he might have formerly swallowed. It stuck so firm in the flesh as if it had 

 been fixed in wood, so that it could not be extracted without some violence, 

 and a small haemorrhage. 



Sir F. L. was greatly swelled in his legs, abdomen, stomach, and to his very 



throat, even to suffocation, that he died. Mr. K s was sent for to let 



out the supposed waters; for his physicians had treated him as in a dropsy, with 

 powerful diuretics, &c. and one or two pails were provided ready to receive the 

 matter; But upon opening him there issued forth nothing but a gust of wind. 

 He cut 6i- inches deep of fat on the peritonaeum, and died of corpulentia nimia, 

 having fed prodigiously. 



An Abstract of some Observalioris made of the Eclipse of the Sun. By John 

 Philip irorzelbaur, at Nuremberg, Sept. 13, i6qq. N° 205, p. f) 



The beginning of the eclipse 8h. 37m. 14s. 



The end of the same 11 33 30" 



The digits eclipsed 10° 43' 



