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fetid, but afterwards became laudable, giving likewise a good discharge from 

 the wounded brain through the fracture of the upper part of the orbit. In 

 about a fortnight's time there was a very laudable suppuration from all the 

 wound, and the symptoms ceasing, the dura mater began to regenerate, look- 

 ing very red and fresh: the livid and lacerated parts sloughed off, and the extre- 

 mities of the fracture began to throw out their ossifications from the diploe and 

 both tables of the cranium, like small excrescences, or proud flesh, which in a 

 month's time spread over the whole fracture; and it grew harder sooner at the 

 extremities of the fracture than in the centre. 



The motions or pulsations of the brain still continued, and were very visible 

 for a long time after, and were felt for some time after the wound was cured ; 

 especially in the inferior part of the coronal and bregma, over the inferior part 

 of the coronal suture, near the squamosa. Except the first 3 or 4 days, the 

 boy continued very sensible ; but during the first 6 weeks he would very often 

 complain of a violent pain in his head, attended with a comatose, and fever ; 

 which would soon go off again, by giving him an emollient and laxative clyster, 

 or a gentle laxative draught. 



The 6th of October following, before his wound was quite well, he was 

 taken very ill with the small-pox, of the flux kind ; and though he had them 

 very severely, and was delirious on their coming out, yet he recovered. Nov. 

 11, the wound was perfectly cured; but in the latter end several exfoliations 

 were taken out of the upper part of the coronal. The beginning of iMarcli 

 1736, he was very well, strong and healthy; had his sight in both eyes, was 

 a very sensible and forward boy for his age, and had been upwards of 4 years at 

 sea, in his Majesty's and merchants' services. 



Of ail exlraordinary Stone voided hy the Anus. By Mr. J. Macharness, Apo- 

 thecary, Chipping- Norton. N° 458, p. 500. 



Mrs. Mary Smith, wife of John Smith, of Chadlington fti the county of 

 Oxon, aged about 31, a tall well-shaped strong-made woman, was seized with 

 a violent fever, accompanied with great heat, restlessness, pain in the head, 

 twitchings of the tendons, pale urine, unequal pulse, difiiculty of breathing, 

 great costiveness, but without thirst. She had a hard labour about 3 weeks 

 before. This fever seized her the 2d of January 17^7, and lasted till the 17th, 

 during which time she was very costive, and continued so till she had another 

 child, which was the latter end of February 1728, and was frequently subject 

 to attacks of a fever, notwithstanding she observed a most regular temperance. 

 Her labour was always difficult, and she bred her children very fast. She lay 

 in again in December 1728, and in May 1731, and this last had a hollow dent 



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