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or vitiated respiration; if accompanied likewise with an affection of the sper- 

 matic vessels, of the thighs, and frequent pleuritic pains; the blood always 

 abounding with tough size ; if opiates soon lose their effect, and only, as all 

 other new remedies not heating, seem to give relief for 2 or 3 days; if cathartics 

 take place, and by frequent repetition do not produce a colliquative diarrhoea, 

 and the most palliative remedies are nitrous salts and mercurial; may it not be 

 concluded with much probability, that such a case is owing to some such cause? 

 may it not be pronounced an internal cancer? 



Observations on Falling Dew, made at Middleburg in Zealand, on a Leaden 

 Platform, in the Night between the 25th and 26th of July, 1741, N. S. with 

 Figures of the Flakes of Snow observed Jan. 1 742. By Leonard Stoche, M.D. 

 N" 4()4, p. 112. From the Latin. 



On glass of various kinds, there fell much dew, so as to wet it all over. — On 

 polished brass, but little, and only a thin vapour. — On rough unpolished brass 

 a little more. — On lattin, or iron tinned, a little: on the same of a blue colour, 

 much : on the same rough, very much ; on the same smooth, scarcely any : on 

 the same rusty, none. — On pure quicksilver, none. — On smooth tin, none. — 

 On rough lead, much: on polished lead, a little. — On white silver, none; on 

 polished silver, none: on silver gilded, none. — On blue porcelaine, none. — On 

 a stone slab, much. — On a basket, made of Indian cane finely woven, a little. 

 — On a smooth white oaken plank, very much; on the same of a black colour, 

 much less. — On a smooth fir plank, but little. 



On shifting those bodies, which received much dew, a little higher, 2 or 3 

 inches above the leaden platform, the lead dried, and the bodies themselves be- 

 came wet beneath, as well as above. But the tin and silver being placed in 

 like manner, continued dry, though their place, which before was bedewed, 

 dried up. 



Jan. 2, 1742, N. s. early in the morning, there fell flakes of snow, like fig. 

 5, pi. 14; their diameters, from the extremities of their points, being 4 of a 

 line. — Jan. 10, before noon, as in fig. 6, also 4 of a line in diameter; in the 

 middle of which was a hexagonal rose, like that in fig. 5, only that the oval 

 parts were empty. — Jan. 20, about noon, like fig. 7, being 1 line in diameter; 

 and fig. 8, of 14- line diameter; which last shone like Muscovy glass. 



Concerning the Vegetation of Melon Seeds Forty-two Years old. By Martin 

 Triewald, F. R. S. Milit. Arch, to the King of Sweden. N° 464, p. 115. 



Secretary Haereus, of Stockholm, having a large collection of natural curio- 



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