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never could perceive any copulation among those animalcula when they were 

 changed into flying creatures; from whence I concluded that they were all 

 females, as many other flies are. 



Some further Account of divers Rare Plants^ lately observed in several Curious 

 Gardens about London^ and particularly in the Company of Apothecaries 

 Physic Garden at Chelsea. By Mr. James Petiuer, F. R. S. N° 333, p. 41 6. 



These are plants from the East and West Indies ; also from America and the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Of an Hydropical Case, in which the Gall Bladder was distended to an extraor- 

 dinary Size. By Mr. J a. Yonge, F.R.S. Surgeon at Plymouth. N*' 333, p. 426. 



Mrs. Dyer was about 30 years of age, the mother of several children, and 

 very healthful till last January 1711, when, after frequent watchings, on an 

 extraordinary occasion, she was troubled with a pain in her belly, like the 

 colic, but which proved the dropsy ascites, and it increased so fast, in spite of 

 all my endeavours, that by March the Qth, being almost suffocated, I was 

 obliged to tap her with a hollow needle in the usual place, and to repeat the 

 operation as often as she filled, and by that means discharged the several quan- 

 tities of water, at the times here under mentioned: viz. 



Pints. 

 March 9 9 June 



14 8 



April 2 12 July 



i6 10 



May 17 14 



31 14 August 



So that, in the space of 8 months I drew 2144- pints of water. She died 

 November 4, 1711 ; and opening her belly, we found the following remarkable 

 things, viz. From the belly issued 14 pints of a greenish serum, mixed with 

 a very purulent matter, not a little fetid ; the intestines, especially the colon, 

 almost every where livid, and adhered in many- places to the peritonaeum, 

 though they had been so long immersed in water; the omentum was also black, 

 and almost consumed; the liver, which I expected to be indurated, had no 

 blemish, only two superficial ulcers on the left lobe ; both that and the perito- 

 neeura, which are usually full of hydatides in dropsical persons, were quite free 

 of them, but there were many on the stomach and guts. 



But we were much surprized, to find a large bladder, distended like that of 

 an ox, filling up almost the whole region of the liver and ventricle, and adher- 



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