586 VHILOSOPHICii^L TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1701. 



in the many seciindines that have come to my hands, I have always found three 

 distinct membranes easily separable. 



An Account of Mr. Sam. Broivns third Booh of East India Plants, with their 

 Names, Firiues, Description, &c. By Ja?nes Fetiver, Apothecary, and 

 F. R. S. To which are added some Animals sent hijn Jrom those Parts. 

 N°27l, p. 843. 



An enumeration of 44 more East- Indian plants gathered by Mr. Brown 

 between the 22d and 27th of March, iGgO, at Chamberamback. and Aumeram- 

 pead, 14 or 16 miles from Fort St. George, (Madras.) As before, Mr. Petiver 

 adds to the Malabar names the synonyms of Pluckenet and other botanists. 

 The animals were principally conchylia and insects. 



On a very extraordinary Periodical Hemorrhage in the Thumb. By Dr. IVm. 



Musgrave. N° 27 2, p. 864. 



Mr. H. formerly a servant to the Queen Dowager, had from his infancy to the 

 24th year of his age, a periodical haemorrhage in one of his thumbs. The time 

 of the eruption was about the full of the moon, seldom more than a day before 

 or after it. The orifice was on the right side of the nail of the left thumb. 

 He has not known the blood to be less in weight at any one periodical discharge 

 than 4 ounces; and when he was 16 years of age, the quantity was then in- 

 creased to half a pound at each eruption. The manner of the flux was also re- 

 markable; for, without any pain of the head, straitness of breath, or other 

 symptoms, excepting only a stiffness on the utmost joint of the said left thumb, 

 the blood used to spin out on a sudden with a considerable force, in several 

 small streams, and continue to do so till the greater part of the quantity was 

 discharged. Under this discharge, however copious, he was strong and vi- 

 gorous to the age of 24, from his most early and tender years. 



At that age, finding this evacuation troublesome, and being uneasy under it, 

 he seared with a hot iron the part, which used to open, and give vent to the 

 flux of blood. I saw the part ; it was hard and callous to the diameter of \ of 

 an inch. The searing had stopped the haemorrhage to the day I took this 

 account, about 20 years. 



This stoppage was in its effects very dangerous, and of ill consequence ; for 

 within one quarter of a year after it, he fell into a spitting of blood ; bringing 

 up from his lungs vast quantities of it. This new complaint, together with a 

 cough attending it, reduced him very low ; so that his physician, old Dr. Dike 

 of Somersetshire, thought him far gone in a consumption ; but by frequent 

 bleeding, &c. delivered him from this haemoptoe ; yet not with that relief which 



