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FHILOSOl'HICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anko 1707. 



Epistohy in qua ratio redditur Libri nuper Editiy cui Titulus, De Arthritide 

 anomala, sive Interna^ Dissertatio. Auctore Gulielmo Musgrave, M.D. et 

 R.S.S. N°310, p. 2435. 



In this work the author treats of the symptoms and cure of various morbid 

 affections consequent to a retropulsion of the gout, or to an incomplete deter- 

 mination of it to the extremities. His remedies in such cases are, first emetics 

 and gentle cathartics, then cordials, aromatics, diaphoretics, chalybeates, &c. with 

 the application of blisters and other stimulent plasters to the joints. 



An Account of a Book, entitled. The fVhole Art of Husbandry. By J. M, 



Esq. F. R. S. N° 310, p. 2442. 



This book gives an account of the several methods of inclosing land; of 

 ordering and improving all sorts of pasture and meadow land ; and of overflow- 

 ing and draining march and boggy lands, &c.; of making hay, and the manage- 

 ment of clover, sainfoin, and other French grasses; the ordering of all sorts 

 of arable lands for all sorts of grains; the making of several sorts of ploughs, 

 and the different ways used in several counties, for the improvements of chalky, 

 sandy, gravelly, stony, clay, and other sorts of land. An account of the 

 several sorts of manure used for the improvement of land; as of burning of 

 land, of several sorts of marl, of sea sand, dung, ashes, &c. and what is pro- 

 per and best for each sort of soil, &c. ; of the ordering of the several sorts of 

 corn and grain, as wheat, rye, &c. and what soil is best for each particular sort, 

 &c. : of the several ways of preserving corn, the making of granaries, and the 

 ordering of each sort for keeping, &c. : of the ordering of beasts, fowls, in- 

 sects, and other things necessary for the stocking of a farm ; &c. &c. 



The whole work contains a complete collection of what the ancients and 

 moderns have written on this subject, and near a third part of it is new experi- 

 ments and improvements; giving an account of all the ways and methods used 

 in several counties, especially about London. 

 De Conchy His Turbinatis, Bivalvibus et Univalvibus, item de Alineraiibus, Fossili- 



bus, et Thermis Phillippensibus, ex MSS. R P. Geo. Jos. Camelli. Communi- 



cavit D» Jacobus Petiver, Pharmacop. Londin. et S.R,S. N'^ 31 1, p. 2397- 



