1 18 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1725. 



4th day from the eruption, he was seized with a violent bilious colic, to which 

 he had been formerly subject : this threw him into the utmost agony. The 

 pox flatted and grew pale, as also the interstices : his pulse was extremely 

 languid, and he had a prodigious tremor, with clammy sweats. The Dr. or- 

 dered two clysters to be thrown up; one as soon as the other was rendered : 

 these gave him 5 large bilious stools: after the third stool, he was tolerably 

 easy : however, he was ordered Laudan. Solid, gr. Ifb. Croc. Anglic, gr. iv. 

 Theriac. Andromach 3ft. 4"% vel 6'" horis, to be washed down with a testace- 

 ous julep. He took the Laudan. 3 times, and slept sound all night. The 

 next morning the pustules were round, florid and turgid. The man got over 

 the distemper, though he relapsed into his colic some days after the turn, 

 which on purging with calomel, &c. and the use of opiates, soon left him. 

 This person, before, and at the eruption, complained of a great difticulty of 

 breathing, with a short importunate cough, and a violent pain under his 

 sternum ; for which reason ^xvi of blood were ordered to be drawn, which 

 was very sizy. 



The major part of the adult persons, seized with this distemper, died; 

 among whom fell an old gentlewoman of 72. 



It was a remarkable instance of the extraordinary virulence of these small- 

 pox, that the women, though they had had the small-pox before, and some 

 very severely, who constantly attended the patients of the confluent kind, 

 whether children, or grown persons, had generally several pustules broke out 

 on their face, hands, and breast, exactly resembling the pocky pustules; which 

 undoubtedly arose from the matter of the crushed pox infecting the skin in 

 those parts. Those pustules arose, maturated, and scabbed off, entirely like 

 the true pox. The Dr. knew one woman, (a nurse) that had more than 40 

 on one side of her face and breast; the child she attended frequently leaning 

 on those parts on that side. Those which had the tenderest skins, and who 

 attended those ill of the worst sort, had most of these eruptions. Instances 

 of this nature were very frequent. 



An Account of the Strata in Coal- Mines, &c. By John Strachey, Esq. 

 F. R. S. N" 391, p. 395. 



Mr. Strachey here corrects a typographical error in his account of the several 

 strata of earths and minerals, found in some of the coal- works in Somerset- 

 shire, printed in the Phil. Trans. N° 360 : for whereas he said, that in those 

 parts they never meet with freestone over the coal ; it is, by mistake, called 



