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though that, to persons not used to them, is a little uncouth and odd, but intel- 

 ligible enough, especially the man's. 



Of a Deaf and Dumb Person, who recovered his Speech and Hearing after a 

 violent Fever ; with some other Medicinal and Surgical Observations. By Mr, 

 Martin. N° 312, p. 2469. 



One Daniel Fraser, a native of Stratharig, about 6 miles from Inverness, 

 continued deaf and dumb from his birth, till the 17th year of his age, when he 

 was taken ill of a violent fever, but being let blood it abated, and had not its 

 natural course; about 5 or 6 months after he had a fever again, and had no 

 blood drawn from him, and then this proceeded with its natural course. Some 

 weeks after his recovery, he felt a motion in his brain, which was very uneasy 

 to him, and afterwards he began to hear, and in process of time to understand 

 speech ; this naturally disposed him to imitate others, and attempt to speak ; 

 he was not understood distinctly for some weeks, but now he is understood 

 tolerably well. 



When the small pox is epidemical in the main land over against Skie Isle, on 

 the S. E. and east, and likewise in the isle itself, the natives bathe their children 

 in the infusion of juniper wood, and they generally escape; whereas those who 

 neglect this precaution, are observed often to die : of this I have seen several 

 instances. 



The plant water-lily being applied to a whitlow, it is observed that it pene- 

 trates quickly the skin of the part. 



They use silverweed instead of hops in brewing beer. 



u4n Observation of a Lunar Eclipse at Boston in New England, April 5, m 

 the Evening, 1707. By Mr. Tho. Brattle. N° 312, p. 2471. Translated 

 from the Latin, 



Time correct, by altitudes. 



gh 52m Qs. . The penumbra very sensible. 



8 1 15 .. Total emersion. 



9 46 30 . Beginning of the emersion. 

 1 64 . . End of the eclipse. 



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