88 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1736. 



sicians, by his proposal, was introduced into the London Pharmacopoeia, under 

 the name of Pulvis Antilyssus, Anno 1720. The composition of which is, 

 ash-coloured ground liver-wort and black pepper: the manner of giving it, not 

 only to men, but to dogs and cattle, being accurately set down in the above- 

 mentioned Transaction. Thus it is hoped, that certain cures are discovered for 

 the only two sorts of venomous bites of animals, to which the happy soil of 

 Great Britain exposes its inhabitants. 



A brief Account, by Mr. John Eames, F.R.S. of a Work entitled. The Method 

 of Fluxions and Infinite Series, with its Application to the Geometry of Curve 

 Lines, by the Inventor Sir Isaac Newton, Kt. &c. Translated from the Ori- 

 ginal, not yet public. To which is subjoined a perpetual Comment upon the 

 whole, CSfc. by John Colson, M. A. and F. R. S. N° 443, p. 320. 



This posthumous work of our late excellent president, a translation of which 

 we have now received from the hand of the learned and ingenious Mr. Colson, 

 has been long and impatiently expected by the curious in these matters; and 

 now it appears, it will fully answer, if not exceed, those expectations, as well 

 as confirm the reputation the author has so justly acquired by his other writings. 

 For it is written with the same genius and acumen, it explains the principles of 

 his method of fluxions with great clearness and accuracy, and applies those 

 principles to very general and scientific speculations in the higher geometry. 

 And further to explain this work, and to supply such things, for the use of 

 common readers, as the author, according to his usual brevity, has often 

 omitted; the translator has given a comment on a good part of the work, and 

 has promised the rest at a proper season. 



lichen and pepper: but Dr. Mead, in a single quarto leaf, published by him Anno 1735, altered the 

 proportions of the composition, prescribing double the quantity of lichen to that of the pepper. This 

 difference in the proportions must be left to the judgment of practitioners ; but on the authority of 

 another minute in the Society's Journal-books, it may not be improper to make an addition to the 

 abovementioned Dampier's powder. 



" March 7, 1671-2. Sir Robert Moray mentioned, that a whole kennel of dogs, belonging to his 

 Royal Highness, were bitten by a mad dog, and had been lately cured by a certain herb called stel- 

 laria, or star of the earth." 



This plant is the lychnis viscosa, flore muscoso Casp. Bauhin. in English, Spanish catch-fly. See 

 these Transactions, N° 187, where is a receipt to cure mad dogs, &c. in which this plant is a prin- 

 cipal ingredient; which receipt, communicated by Sir Robert Gourdon, was there published by his 

 Majesty's (special) command. Anno l687. 



Therefore, suppose the composition were to be thus : 



Take ash-coloured ground liver-wort, black pepper, and the herb Spanish catch-fly, all finely 

 powdered, of each 2 drachms, for 4 doses, to be taken as Dampier prescribes in his letter in these 

 Transactions, N" 237. Orig. 



