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13^ FHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1704. 



Primigenia 



[Falsely so called, which succeeds to Rheumatism, 



Improperly so called, which succeeds to f Chlorosis, 



I Dropsy, 

 f Melancholy, 



J' Scurvy, 

 Lues venerea. 

 Asthma, 

 Fever, 

 Colic, 

 ^'Some cutaneous diseases. ^ 



He then enters into a description of the diagnostic symptoms of each species, 

 and lays down the method of treatment. 



IL Specimen Ldthographiie Helvetiae cunos^e, quo Lapides ex Figuratis Heluelicis 

 Selectissimi j^ri incisi sistuntur et describuntur, a Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero* 

 M.D.Tiguri, 1732, 8t;o. N° 2^1, p. l604. 



Dr. Scheuchzer of Zurich, the author of this specimen, has shown much 

 diligence in his mineralogical inquiries. With indefatigable industry, and great 

 expense and danger, he has carried his researches to the tops of the highest 

 mountains of Switzerland; and even there found a variety of sea-shells, and 

 other marine productions. Besides his descriptions, the author has caused 

 icons to be engraven of all of them. The chief of the figured native fossils 

 he found in this country, are the belemnites, p. 25, 44, the selenita rhom- 

 boidalis, p. 49, and the fluor crystallinus trigonus, p. 29. He gives a re- 

 markable variety of the fossil corolloid bodies; ex. gr. corallium fossile cortice 

 reticulate, p. 14, reteporaseu eschara maxima Imperati lapidea, p. 13, alcyonium 

 tuberosum forma ficus vel quintum Dioscor. p. 17, fungulus pyriformis lapideus, 



* Dr. John James Scheuchzer was Professor of Mathematics at Zuric, where he was born in 

 1672. He wrote many large and valuable works on natural history, and died in 1733. Besides the 

 treatise above mentioned he was author of the following publications, most of which are enriched 

 with a vast number of plates: (1) Historiae Nat. Helvetiae Prolegomena, 4to. 17OO. (2) Itinera 

 Alpina, 4 vols. 4to. 1702-1711. (3) The Nat. History of Switzerland in the German tongue, 3 vols. 

 4to. 1706-17O8. (4) Herbarium Diluvianum, fol. 1709. (5) Museum Diluvianum, fol. 1716. 

 (6) Bibliotheca Scriptor. Hist. Nat. 8vo. I7l6. (7) Hydrographia Helvetica, 4to. 1717. (8) Biblia 

 ex Physicis illustrata, forming several folio volumes, and containing descriptions and figures of the 

 various natural productions mentioned in the Bible. In addition to the above, he wrote two or 

 three medical tracts, and communicatated several papers relating to astronomy, meteorology, ana- 

 tomy, and natural history, to the Royal Society, inserted in the Transactions of that learned body 

 between the years 1707 and 1725. He had a brother (John Scheuchzer) who was likewise dis- 

 tinguished by bis knowledge and writings in natural history. 



