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globe in each, like a ball in a socket, and are so disposed, as if made to look 

 directly backwards. They are perfectly smooth, and without those hemispheri- 

 cal divisions, visible in the cornea of the eyes of the fly and beetle kind, but 

 appear more like those of a spider. 



I have tried several ways of killing the animalcula before-mentioned, by 

 mixing salts, spirits and acids, &c. with their water, the least touch of which 

 will immediately deprive them of motion and life. But I never yet succeeded 

 in any trial of recovering or reviving them, after the water was evaporated, by 

 the addition of fresh water. Many of those I have mentioned burst when the 

 water evaporates, and though some keep their shapes a little while, yet they too 

 alter in a few minutes, and I cannot imagine them recoverable. 



An Account of a Book, viz. — Hijjpocratis Aphofismi, cum Commentariolo. 

 Auctore Martino Lister, e Medicis Serenissimte Majestatis Regince Annie, 

 Lond. 1703. N°284, p. 1373. 



Concerning the Cure of an Aposthumation of the Lungs, By Dr. John fVright, 



N° 285, p. 1378. 



Mrs. Jane Terry was about 1 8 years of age, of a fresh complexion, and 

 rather fleshy. Her relations apprehending she might have the small- pox, re- 

 moved her to a nurse's house, where she had the distinct sort very kindly ; her 

 case proceeded so very well, as they conceived, that no physician was called to 

 her, till they began to shell ; only, that for some days before she had a little 

 difficulty in her breathing, which gradually increased, till she began to throw 

 up some blood, which was about the 7th day from their first appearing, and 

 was accompanied with these circumstances; it had increased every day ; for 3 

 days before I saw her, she coughed and brought up a viscous phlegm, such as 

 patients vomit when their stomachs are very foul ; only as mere phlegm is white, 

 this was all of it as red as blood; it was not streaked with blood, or had a mix- 

 ture of white phlegm with it, but was so deeply coloured, that it seemed to be 

 all blood, only it would not flow as blood does while it is hot; nor did it coagu- 

 late as blood does when it is cold, but hung from the basins when it was poured 

 out, as vomited phlegm does; and in this it differed from all the bloody 

 expectorations I have seen, excepting one Mr. Jones at Kensington, who 

 coughed the same bloody coloured pituita, but in much less quantity, for Mrs. 

 Terry threw up above a pint in 24 hours, for some days, and though a less, yet 

 a considerable quantity afterwards ; Mrs. Terry's had a very strong smell, but 

 Mr. Jones's had none at all. After some weeks she recovered, regained her 



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