386 I'HILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNoIJSO. 



tistiiloiis opening in ihc scrotum, a stone weighing 3J oz. avoird. The lacerated 

 scrotum (then no longer tumefied) was capable of admitting a child's hand. 

 On examination it was found that the stone had come from the urethra. What 

 seemed very extraordinary, this large wound soon healed, with the exception of 

 a small fistula in the upper part of the scrotum ; and the patient, who could 

 scarcely stir himself at all before he voided the stone, was afterwards capable 

 of walking about without difficulty. 



2. A lady was brought to bed of a daughter perfect in every respect, except 

 that, in the lower part of the lumbar region, there was a tumor or cyst about 

 as large as a child's fist, and that moreover the infant's legs were crossed, 

 and the feet applied to the buttocks after the manner of a tailor sitting at his 

 work ; and the child was not able to move them from this posture, to the great 

 astonishment of every person who saw her, and the great grief of her parents. 



On examining the tumor. Dr. H. found it to be of the same kind with 

 those mentioned by Tulpius. (Observ. cap. 29 and 30, lib. 3.) He pre- 

 scribed an aromatic and astringent fomentation; but in 3 days time the tumor 

 was so greatly distended with serum, that the external membrane had begun 

 to break, and fears were excited, lest the tumor suddenly bursting, its con- 

 tents should be discharged all at once, and so prove fatal. A small puncture 

 was therefore recommended that the lymph might be gradually let out; though 

 it was at the same time represented that whether the tumor was opened or 

 not, it would probably occasion the death of the infant. 



On the 4th day the tumor was opened, a larger orifice being made than was 

 intended; so that the contained fluid was discharged in the course of 24 hours. 

 Excessive debility and frequent faintings succeeded for 2 days; but by the assist- 

 ance of cordial medicines, and good nursing, the child was kept alive for 20 

 days ; at the expiration of which she died in convulsions. 



On opening the body, the medulla dorsalis was found to reach not farther 

 than to the last lumbar vertebra; but going out between this vertebra and 

 the OS sacrum, it was distributed over the membranes of the tumor or 

 cyst. The os sacrum was solid throughout; and had no foramina for trans- 

 mitting the nervous propagines of the medulla spinalis (known by the name of 

 Cauda equina) to the lower limbs. 



Jn Jccount of the Imperial Salt-JVorks of S6owdr in Upper Hungary. By 

 Ernest Bruckman of the Academy of Brunswick, M. D. Communicated by 

 Sir Hans Sloane. N°413, p. 260. 

 Soowar is an Hungarian word, signifying in German salt-burg, composed 



of so, i. e. salt, and wa, that is, burgh or town where the salt-works are. 



