378 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO IJOJ. 



The water sits pleasantly on the stomach, works off by urine very briskly, causes 

 a good appetite, cheers the spirits, and procures sleep. It is not binding, as 

 seme other chalybeates are, but keeps the body open to most people, and upon 

 some it brings now and then a gentle looseness, which carries off the distemper. 

 For these 4 years I have prescribed these waters to many scores of people every 

 season, and I could never observe any inconveniency or ill symptom arise from 

 drinking them. 



j4n Account of the Cure of two Sinuous Ulcers possessing the space of the whole 

 Arm^ with an extraordinary Supply of a Callus, which fully answers the 

 Purposes of the Os Humeri lost in the lime of Cure. By Mr. John Fawler, 

 Surgeon to the Sick and fVounded at Deal. N° 3 12, p. 2466. 



One John Marsh, of the parish of Denton, in the county of Kent, about 

 l6 years of age, was troubled with a tumour on his arm at the end of a conti- 

 nued fever, which seems to be a critical discharge of the humour of the fever 

 on his arm; he was under a surgeon for 2 years; but at length, there being no 

 appearance of a cure, he came to me. At first dressing I found two sinuous 

 ulcers in his right arm, one upwards about the deltoid muscle, and the other on 

 the under part of his arm, within an inch and a half of the juncture of the 

 cubit; the upper sinus passed upwards within an inch and a half of the juncture, 

 and downwards to the cubit. The lower sinus passed downwards to the cubit, 

 and upwards about an inch and a half. When both these sinuses were laid open 

 the bone soon showed itself carious and loose, so that I easily took it out ; it 

 was about 5 inches long. Three weeks after there came off another splinter of 

 bone from the inner side, about 2 inches long, having the channel of the 

 marrow. These ulcers, with care and diligence, were cured very well in 9 

 months; and the place of the bone is so well supplied by a strong callus, that 

 the patient is not only very healthy, but can lift 50 lb. weight with that arm. 



Concerning two deaf Persons, who can speak, and understand what is said to them 

 by the Motion of the Lips. By Richard Waller, Esq. N° 312, p. 2468. 

 There lives in our town a man and his sister, each about 50 years old, neither 

 of whom have the least sense of hearing; they both live by their daily labour, 

 and both know by the motion of the lips only whatever is said to them, and will 

 answer pertinently to the question proposed to them, of any thing within their 

 capacity. So that you need only whisper, provided the lips and mouth be but 

 moved as they ought, and you do not speak too fast. I was told by their mo- 

 ther, that they could hear very well, and speak, when they were children ; but 

 that both lost that sense afterwards, which makes them retain their speech : 



