54 VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1736. 



An extraordinary Case of the Foramen Ovale of the Heart, being found open 

 in an Adult ; communicated by Claudius Amyand, F. R. S. N° 439, p. 1 72. 



A person dying at the age of 22, of an illness that had perplexed his phy- 

 sicians, was opened, to discover an imposthume, which was apprehended in 

 the belly. As nothing was observed there worth notice, excepting a great re- 

 laxation of the viscera, the cause of his death was looked for in the thorax ; 

 there the lungs were strongly attached to the pleura on each side, and a 

 large collection of water in each cavity, especially on the left, where the pos- 

 terior lobe was inflamed, and tending to suppuration; the quantity of water 

 in the pericardium was greater than usual, and the heart much larger than 

 could be expected in so great an atrophy as the patient was reduced to ; in 

 it the foramen ovale was found open, so as to give passage to a large finger, 

 when a fungous substance, which grew from the circumference of the foramen, 

 and stopped up the same, was removed. The valve was hardly perceptible, it 

 being callous and furled up. The ductus arteriosus was found close as usual. 

 This patient had enjoyed great health till lately, and had given no sign of this 

 opening of the foramen ovale, which is preternatural in adults. 



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

 Society hy the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1734, pursuant to 

 the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. P.R.S. By Isaac Rand, F.R.S. 

 N''440, p. 173. 



This is the 13th catalogue of this collection, completing 650 plants. 



The Apparent Times of the Immersions and Emersions of Jupiter's Satellites, 

 which will happen in the Year 1737. Computed to the Meridian of the 

 Royal Observatory at Greenwich. By James Hodgson, F. R. S. N" 440, 

 p. 177. 



Another repetition of the catalogue of these eclipses, pre-computed, and 

 published for the accommodation of gentlemen intending to make observations 

 on them. 



A Proposition relating to the Combination of Transparent Lenses with Rejecting 

 Planes. By J. Hadley, Esq. V. Pr. R. S. Communicated Jan. 9, 1734. 

 N°440, p. 185. 



Having proposed the use of a telescope with the instrument for taking angles 



