i78 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSAC J IONS. [aNNO 1728. 



sion, part of the matter which caused the tumefaction, flowed down to the legs 

 and swelled them likewise; which brought on a difficulty of breathing, a small, 

 frequent, and uneasy pulse, with a total loss of appetite. But, what was more 

 remarkable, the systole and diastole of the heart were plainly felt under the left 

 clavicle, the heart being, on dissection, found thrust up to that part of the 

 thorax. The Mth day from the fall, a diarrhoea came on, which killed her in 

 a few days. On making a small incision in the right hypochondrium, there 

 gushed out from the cavity a liquor, in colour, consistence, and froth re- 

 sembling well boiled beer ; which on enlarging the incision, was followed by a 

 foetid purulent matter, with entire portions of the putrefied caul ; which matter 

 filled 56 Strasburgh pints. On this the belly subsided ; but a large solid sub- 

 stance still remained under the containing parts of the abdomen. Opening 

 therefore the whole cavity, there was found, under the left groin, a considerable 

 tumour, nourished by its proper vessels, and every where fixed to the circum- 

 jacent membranes; from which being freed, it weighed 61b. common weight. 

 This tumourproved a congeriesof incysted abcesses (wrapped upin onecommon 

 covering) of different sizes ; the largest equal to a man's 2 fists, the smallest 

 the size of an egg ; and each of a different sort of substance : besides which 

 was a great number of hydatides. The peritonasum was as thick as the cutis ; 

 the caul almost entirely destroyed ; the stomach natural, but perfectly empty ; 

 the guts livid, very much thickened and vastly inflated, and connected preter- 

 naturally to each other by peculiar membranes. The liver strongly adhered to 

 the right hypochondrium, and its coat parted from its parenchyma almost spon- 

 taneously. The left kidney nearly equalled the spleen in bulk, and the pan- 

 creas was as hard as a cartilage ; but the uterus and bladder were found in statu 

 sano. The cavity of the thorax was much smaller than usual, from the con- 

 tents of the abdomen pressing up the diaphragm into it ; in which cavity also 

 was found the same sort of bloody putrid liquor, as likewise in the pericardium. 

 The right ventricle of the heart was preternaturally soft and flaccid, and being 

 opened, was lined with hydatides. The upper parts of the body were emaciated; 

 the lower much tumefied by the water contained within them. 



On the Culture aud Management of Saffron in England. By James Douglass, 

 M. D. F. R. S. N° 405, p. 566. 



Saffron grows at present very plentifully in Cambridgeshire, and has grown 

 formerly in several other counties of England ; but as the method of culture is 

 much the same in all. Dr. D. judged it suflicient to set down the observations 

 which he employed proper persons, in different seasons, to make in the years 



