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Mr. Klein does not determine to what kind of bulls this fossil is to be 

 ascribed. He only conjectures it may belong to the tanrolephantes, mentioned 

 in the Dissertation of a Pair of very extraordinary large Horns, published in 

 vol. 34 of Phil. Trans. N" 397. But as to the Zubrones which Gesner on the 

 Urns, p. 144, mentions from Munster, there is no sufficient proof that the 

 animal in question was of that kind. 



A further /iccount of a Remarkable Plica Polonica; a/so a prodigious Swelling 

 of the Eye. By the same. N° 4'20, p. 428. 



This surprising plica polonica, (see Philos. Trans. N''417) was sent to 

 Dresden, where Mr. K. saw it. It is remarkable, that the woman affected with 

 this plica, who lived in the district of Novogrod, during the 52 years that she 

 laboured under it, never changed her resting place but twice a year, viz. in 

 spring and winter. On the approach of winter she could endure cold so very 

 well, that she shunned all sort of heat, even that of a lighted candle. She 

 never used any strong liquor, but lived on very bad bread, raw herbs, and 

 water, to 70 years of age. In the spring she used to be carried to some place 

 where the heat could not easily penetrate. 



The other case is of a prodigious swelling in the eye of a man. It was occa- 

 sioned by hail; and it daily increases and grows hard. This circumstance is 

 very singular, that the optic nerve and the tunicles have stretched so much, 

 that the eye quitted its socket, and fell down to the beard. The unhappy man 

 could move tliis eye, which weeps, but cannot see with it. The tumour is not 

 painful, but it is very troublesome to him about his nose. 



An Abstract, by James Douglas, M. D. Med. Regin. et F. R. S. of a Booh, en- 

 titled, A short Account of Mortifications, and of the surprising Effect of the 

 Bark, inputting a stop to their Progress, &c. By John Douglas, F.R.S. 

 8vo. Lond. 1732. N° 426, p. 429. 



This account of mortifications is divided into three parts; in the first of 

 which the author treats of mortifications in general ; where he has collected 

 the opinions of the most experienced physicians and surgeons, who all affirm 

 that a mortification from an internal cause is always incurable; and when it 

 proceeds from an external one, it can never be cured but by amputation, or 

 separating the part affected from the sound. 



In the 2d part he gives a very remarkable observation of his own, which 

 proves to a demonstration, that a gangrene, even from an ill habit of body, 

 may be cured, contrary to the hitherto received opinion. 



