634 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I7O]. 



which afterwards in the blood and genus nervosum, often produce severe dis- 

 tempers. Which notion was in some degree confirmed by its first proposer. 

 Dr. Lister. Vide de Fontibus Medicatis AngHae Exercitationem alteram, Ed. 

 Lond. p. 48. 



Concerning a great Quantity of Opium taken, without causing Sleep. 



N" 275, p. 999. 



One Mrs. Lovelock, was seized with a fever, which affected her so as to make 

 her delirious to a great degree, convulsed and restless ; upon which the physi- 

 cians ordered her great quantities of opiates ; but, with the quantity mentioned 

 below could not procure any sleep, though they seemed to refresh her, and 

 make her sensible. The quantity she took from Tuesday night J '2 o'clock to 

 Friday night 12 o'clock, was in all, in various forms, 102 grains of laudanum. 

 She died after 1 1 days illness. 



Account of the greatest Part of a Foetus voided by the Navel. By Mr. 

 Christopher Birbech. N° 275, p. 1000. 



The wife of Mr. Roper at Coxwold, 12 miles from York, falling in labour, 

 the midwife extracted the secundines, which offered first, but could not per- 

 ceive any thing remaining : the woman's body frilling, and being pretty easy for 

 some days, and the uterus being contracted, the midwife took the secundines 

 for a mola, or false conception ; but in about a week more the patient began to 

 discharge plenty of foetid matter by the vagina, which continued, and, in pro- 

 cess of time, she felt a troublesome hardness on the hypogastrium, which in- 

 creased daily for above 6 weeks ; and so reduced her that they despaired of her 

 life. This lump and soreness wrought upwards to the umbilical region, and 

 continued fixed there for about a month. At length, being very painful, the 

 neighbouring women took it for a great boil or imposthume, and applied what 

 they usually do in such cases, to assist its suppuration and breaking, which 

 had its effects, and it broke rather under the navel, discharging then, and after- 

 wards, a great quantity of a thin foetid and discoloured liquor. Tlie part about 

 it mortified, and the ulcer enlarged so that a man's hand might be introduced in 

 it. It continued exceedingly painful, and emitted such a stench, that neither 

 herself nor any one else could endure to look on it. A short time after they 

 found some little bones wrought out of it, which being shown to me, I found 

 them to be the bones of a child's finger, which made me curious of going to see 

 her. When I examined the place, I perceived the foetus in a confused heap, or 

 mortified lump ; for with my probe I felt several bones, and at that time ex- 



