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

 Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1 735, pursuant to 

 the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. Pries. By 

 Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S. Hart. Chel. Pr/es. ac Prcelec. Botan. 

 N°445, p. 1. 



This is the 14th annual present of 50 plants, completing the number 

 of 700 plants presented. 



The Case of a Lad bitten by a mad Dog. By Mr. Edw. Nourse, F. R. S. 

 and Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. N° 445, p. 5. 



Stephen Bellass, about l6 years of age, was, some time in June 1735, bitten 

 by a mad dog through the nail of his right thumb : Mr. N. being imme- 

 diately called, proposed to make a ligature above, and to cauterize the wounded 

 part: but that not being complied with, he desired Mr. Gernum the apothe- 

 cary, who was present, to make up the remedy mentioned by Dampier in the 

 Phil. Trans. N° 237, and N°443, viz. R Lichen, ciner. terrestris, Piper, nig. aa 

 5i. f. Pulvis. Of this powder he took 5i. within an hour after he was bitten ; 

 repeating it the next morning before he set out for Gravesend, where he was 

 10 days, and was dipped in the salt water every day; during which time he re- 

 peated the medicine night and morning, and continued so to do for 40 days. 



The boy was without the least sign of being affected by the poison, till 

 Tuesday the J 1th of Jan. 1736-7, when in the evening he complained of a 

 numbness in 3 of the fingers of the hand that was not bitten. Next morning 

 he was sick, had great pain across his stomach, and in all his bones; in the 

 evening Mr. N. was sent for to bleed him, the people about him supposing he 

 had got cold. When he came, he found him feverish, with a hard full pulse : 

 he asked what complaints he had ? he told him those abovementioned. Mr. 

 N. inquired what nourishment he had taken that day? the answer was, none, 

 for he could not swallow : Mr. Nourse looked into his mouth, but there was 

 no inflammation ; neither did any thing occur that could produce the difficulty 

 of swallowing. Mr. N. offered him some sack-whey in a basin, but he started 

 at the sight of it, not suffering it to come near him: he was then offered a 

 spoonful, which he was prevailed on to swallow : the moment it was down, he 

 was convulsed, and a remarkable horror appeared in his countenance, which 

 was succeeded by a profuse sweat all over his face and head. He afterwards 

 took another spoonful ; the consequence was as before, but in a higher degree. 

 Mr. N. was now convinced that this was the iS^o^o^ia, and that it arose from 



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