VOL. XXVI.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 3Q7 



It was further remarkable, that the wall, both above and below a little 

 window in the same gabel-end, was so shattered, that the light could be seen 

 through the crevices in the wall; and that upon a large stone on the outside of 

 the wall, beneath this window, was a mark, as if made by the stroke of a 

 smith's sledge, and a splinter of the stone was broken off, of some pounds 

 weight. I was further informed, that from the time of that great thunder- 

 clap, both the thunder and lightning diminished gradually, so that in an hour's 

 time all was still and quiet again. 



Concerning an apoplectic Person, in whom, from an Obstruction in the left 

 Ventricle of the Brain, the Nerves on the opposite Side were affected. By 

 Dr. Archibald Adams. N^SIS, p. 40. 



Some time ago I opened the head of a woman, who died of an apoplexy, 

 and in the left ventricle of the brain I found between 4 and 3 ounces of clotted 

 blood, and no blood at all in the right ventricle, but every thing as usual ; and 

 all the nerves on the right side of the body were as strong as any I ever ob- 

 served in a sound animal, especially in their origin, and as far as I could trace 

 them in their course. It had been my opinion, that whichsoever ventricle the 

 obstruction was in, the nerves and muscles corresponding to that side would be 

 affected ; but here the contrary plainly appeared ; for though the obstruction 

 was in the left ventricle, yet the sense and motion of the right side were entirely 

 lost, and the small remains of either were observable only in the left side. 



Concerning a Woman 62 Years of Age (who is still living, in 1 707^ that lost 

 her Leg arid greatest Part of her Thigh by a Gangrene. By Mr, Ralph 

 Calep, With a Remark by Mr. Cowper, N° 313, p. 41. 



The wife of one Tho. Steven of Maidenhead, Berks, about 62 years of age, 

 was seized with a fever about the latter end of Nov. 1697. Her physician used 

 various remedies to remove the fever, which in about 14 days terminated in a 

 tumor and numbness in her left foot, both which by degrees crept half way up 

 her thigh. A fomentation was ordered, of centaur, absinth., hyperic. &c, 

 boiled in a strong lixivium; and after fomenting, to anoint her foot and leg 

 with ol. terebinth, in which galbanum was dissolved. This method was daily 

 used for a month, before I saw her, when I found her in the following condi- 

 tion; her foot and leg cold, insensible, withered, and hard, as if dried in a 

 chimney, and of a tawny colour. Her knee was swelled, and had several large 

 black spots on it, which pitted when pressed with the finger. There were 

 several discolorations in the skin, half way up her thigh. She complained of 



