656 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 1723. 



can I be induced to believe that they eat their tails, for there was no part of her 

 that she could endure less to be handled than her tail, the least touching of 

 which would make her cry, or rather hiss like a snake; she could endure no 

 manner of cold; for in the intervals between the times of eating, she was either 

 beneath the bed- clothes, or on a cushion before a fire, with the heat of which 

 she seemed to be extremely well pleased. 



Her ordinary meat was buttered eggs, milk, and bread, all manner of roasted 

 flesh, but no fish ; 1 once tried her with a new killed partridge, which she eat 

 of most voraciously, and for several days after she was very wild and ungovern- 

 able, which made me never afterwards try her with raw flesh. I am apt to be- 

 lieve their ordinary dens or habitations are under ground, in sandy banks, like 

 rabbits ; for when she was brought to the fields she would dig up the sand with 

 her paws, with an incredible swiftness, so that had she not been chained, there 

 had been no possibility of recovering her. 



An Account of the voiding of a great number of Stones during the use of the 

 Pyrmont JVaters, by a Person ivho had never before been troubled with Cal- 

 culous Complaints. Communicated by Ab. Kater, M.D. Professor of Anatomy 

 and Botany f at Wittemberg, and F.R.S. Dated Jan. 6, J 723. N^ 377, 

 p. 322. An Abstract from the Latin. 



A Pomeranian nobleman, who at that time enjoyed perfect health, was pre- 

 vailed upon to accompany a friend to the Pyrmont waters. After he had been 

 taking these waters for some days, he voided several stones inter mingendum, 

 without any pain. This induced him to drink the waters in larger quantities; 

 the consequence of which was, that 4 or 5 days afterwards, more than 40 came 

 from him, without giving him any uneasiness. This circumstance encouraged 

 him to persist in the use of these waters, which he took in excessive quantities; 

 the consequence of which was, a suppression of urine for 3 days, for which 

 the catheter was employed. After this he discontinued the waters by the 

 advice of his physicians, and he flattered himself that he should not experience 

 any further bad effects from them. But not long after, while he was travelling 

 homewards, he was troubled with a constant desire to make water, which 

 obliged him frequently to get out of his carriage, when pure blood would be 

 voided, accompanied with excruciating pain. This symptom continued during 

 the whole of his journey; but after his return home, on keeping quiet, both 

 the bloody urine and pain ceased. But, whenever he rode out either in his 

 carriage or on horseback, this coiiiplaint returned, and again ceased on keeping 

 himself quiet. Sometimes, but very rarely, it would happen that a few stones 



