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Concerning a Monstrous Birth. By Mr. Robert Taylor, N°308, p. 2345. 



A poor woman near Hitchin being in hard labour, was delivered of twins 

 conjoined together ; there being but one trunk of a body, with two necks, on 

 each a head, 4 arms, 2 forwards and two backwards, those backwards crossing 

 each others shoulders, like two persons side to side. There is but one navel, 

 two matrixes, two fundaments, two pair of hips, and four legs. They had 

 gone the full time, having hair on their heads, and nails on their fingers and 

 toes. The midwife tells me they were alive within less than half an hour before 

 delivered: they look very clear and well; and by reason of their being con- 

 joined, are about 7 inches over. 



An Account of Dr. Ehms Treatise of St. Georges Bath near Landeck, in the 

 Lordship of Glals, near Silesia. N° 308, p. 2346. 



The doctor states, in his account of this water, that it fills a basin of 21 feet 

 long, 10 broad, and 5 feet deep, every 4 hours. That the smell is a little 

 sulphureous, especially at a distance. The taste a little sulphureous and saline, 

 but not at all subacid. The heat is but temperate in summer ; in winter much 

 greater. It does not turn black with galls. With ol. tartar, p. deliquium, 

 spiritus salis ammoniaci, and many mineral acid spirits mixed with it, it made no 

 alteration ; nor did the solution of fine silver in aquafortis make any change or 

 precipitation. And the taste is scarcely different from pure limpid water. The 

 warmth of it seems not to exceed the tepid heat of Bristol well. 



The bath-water is conveyed into a copper, where it is made to seeth by arti- 

 ficial heat, and is afterwards brought into the common baths to increase the 

 heat as the particular cases require. It is said to heal ulcers, to dissolve coagu- 

 lations, to brace relaxed nerves, to cure scabs and leprous affections, &c. 



Observations made on a Comet that appeared at Rome. By the late Rev. Mr. 



John Ray. N° SOQ, p. 2350. 



On Dec. 20, l064, N. S. about 3 o'clock in the morning, I observed the 

 comet ; it was in the constellation of Hydra, not far from the foot of Crater. 

 It appeared about the size of a star of the first magnitude, but not near so lucid 

 and bright. It had a very long tail, which pointed almost directly towards the 

 heart of Hydra ; the tail showed somewhat like rays of a candle burning in a 

 mist : its figure was conical ; its length 5 or 6 degrees ; the breadth at the base 

 not above a degree and a half. The body of this comet was about 3 degrees to 

 the south east of the most southerly star in the foot of Crater ; it stood very 



