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original plates. He would add all the Alpine plants, had he some patrons at 

 liand who would bear the expence of engraving the plates.* 



Of a large Umbilical Rupture. By Mr. Rnnby. N° 421, p. 221. 



About 6 years before, a man gave his wife a kick on the belly, and from that 

 time she complained of a pain, and a swelling about the navel, which in time 

 increased to about the size of a man's head, seldom giving her any uneasiness 

 but by its weight; and that chiefly when her bandage was off, which she gene- 

 rally wore, except when her diet, or any other accident, brought on a diarrhoea, 

 which was always attended with colic pains, particularly in the rupture; to ease 

 which, she had been advised to iron it with a hot iron, and she had thereby 

 burnt it so often, that there remained on the skin several large cicatrices. Three 

 days before her death she was taken with the diarrhoea, attended with a slight 

 fever. 



On opening the bag, the caul first presented itself to view, the greatest part 

 of which adhered to the peritoneum. Removing this, the small guts, to the 

 length of 2J- ells, were contained in this bag, with all the colon, except so 

 much of it as is below the left kidney; and the beginning of the colon, with 

 the caecum, was attached to the mesentery, in such manner, as to be but 2 

 inches distant from the pylorus; which, with about one third of the stomach, 

 was by this means drawn into the bag. The beginning of the duodenum just 

 entered the bag, and then returned out again; which, with but a small portion 

 of the jejunum, was the chief that remained in the abdomen. 



A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from. Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal 

 Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1730 ; pursuant to the 

 Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. By Isaac Rand, F. R. S. N° 422, p. 223. 



Experiments concerning the Electricity of Water. By Mr. Stephen Gray. 

 N° 422, p. 227. 

 In the former account of experiments in N°417, Mr. Gray described the 

 manner of communicating an attraction to a bubble of soaped water. But he 

 has now found, that even a body of water receives an attractive virtue, and also 

 a i-epelling one, by applying the excited tube near it, after the same manner as 

 solid bodies do. To perform this experiment, he caused a wooden dish to be 

 turned, with a screw hole at the bottom, but not so far as to come through the 



* A history of the plants of Switzerland was given about 10 years afterwards by the celebrated 

 Haller, entitled Enumeratio Method. Stirp. Helvet. 2 Vols, folio with plates 174-2 ; to which were 

 annexed some supplements in 1761. The corrections and additions contained in these supplements 

 were inserted in their proper places in a new edition of this great botanical work, published in 3 vols, 

 folio 176"8, under the title of Historia Stirpium Helvetiae. 

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