6'10 I'HILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO J 733. 



The Bills of Mortality for the Town of Dresden, for a whole Century, viz. from 

 the Year 1617 to \1\1, containing the Numbers of Marriages, Births, 

 Burials, and Communicants. By Sir Conrad Sprengell, M. D., F. R. S. 

 N° 428, p. 89. 



Sum total from 1617 to 1717 inclusive, viz. 



Married 24294 couples. Christened 83412. Buried 98611. Communicants 

 4654064, among whom 1686 received holy orders. 



The Bills of Mortality for the Imperial City of Augsburg, from the Year 1501 

 to 1720 inclusive, containing the Number of Births, Marriages, and Burials. 

 By the same. N" 428, p. 94. 

 Total of all in the 220 years, are, born 347481, died 394837, couples 



married 99 1 42. 



Remarks on the foregoing Bills of Mortality for the Cities of Dresden and Augs- 

 burg. By Mr. JVilliam Maitland,* F. R. S. N° 428, p. 98. 



By the first septenary of the centenary of the bills of mortality for the city 

 of Dresden, from year 1616 to anno l624, it appears, that there died in that 

 electoral capital 3136 persons; and in the last septenary of the said centenary, 

 from anno 1709 to 1717, 8836. 



And by the first septenary of the same centenary of the bills of mortality of 

 the imperial city of Augsburg, from the year 1616 to anno l624, it appears 

 that there died in that city 11371 ; and in the last septenary, from 1709 to 

 anno 1717, only 6297. By which appears the great vicissitudes of sublunary 

 affairs, in the vast disparity between the aforesaid cities ; for as the former has 

 increased near two thirds in the number of its inhabitants, so the latter de 

 creased near one half in the same space of time. 



An Account of Symptoms arising from eating the Seeds of Henbane,-^ with their 

 Cure, &c. and some occasional Remarks. By Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. P. S. R. 

 W 429, p. 99. 



In 1729, a person came to consult Sir Hans Sloane on an accident that befel 

 4 of his children, aged from 4-1- to 1 34- years, by eating some seeds they had 

 gathered in the fields, near Pancras church, which they mistook for filberts. By 

 one of the capsules Sir Hans instantly knew it to be that of the hyoscyamus 



* A native of Scotland, the same who wrote a History of London in 2 folio vols. He also 

 wrote a History of Edinburgh, and a compilation on the Antiquities of Scotland. He died in 1757, 

 aged 6i. 



+ Hyoscyamus niger. Linn. 



