t22 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1742. 



ferent kind had been found between the cutis and muscles, and among the 

 muscles themselves ; and the muscles of the lower arm were displaced from 

 each other, as though they iiad been separated by art ; they had become pale, 

 having lost their natural colour and appearance ; and there was found adhering 

 to them a small quantity of a gelatinous or mucous matter, which after being 

 scraped off with the fingers and washed in water, became white. At the sides 

 of the aforesaid cavity, the blood was seen to issue from 6 or 7 different orifices, 

 to close which the strongest styptics were applied, and the whole cavity was 

 filled with lint, secured by sticking-plaster and a roller. By these means the 

 hemorrhage was soon stopped ; nevertheless, a train of unfavourable symptoms 

 (the consequence of the previous disease) came on, and continued increasing 

 until the 3d day, when the patient died. 



Two Observations, by Job Easier, M. D. F. R. S. N°466, p. 277- An Ab- 

 stract from the Latin. 



In the first of these observations, mention is made of a male infant, who was 

 born with a pendulous tumour formed on the back, where the os sacrum be- 

 gins, and reaching from thence down to the heels. On handling, it appeared 

 to contain a watery fluid. Although from its rosy complexion the infant had 

 the appearance of health, yet it died a few days after it was born. Dr. B. could 

 not obtain permission to examine the tumor after death. 



The 2d case was that of a child who died of hydrocephalus, at the age of 2 

 years and a half: during all which time it took no other sustenance besides its 

 mother's tnilk. The father was healthy, but the mother was of a bad habit of 

 body. From the time of its birth the head was unusually large, and went on 

 gradually increasing, till it became so exceedingly bulky, that the child was 

 unable to support its weight, and was therefore obliged to be constantly in a 

 recumbent posture. The dimensions of the head, as taken after death, were 

 as follow : from the right meatus audilorius over the ossa bregmatis, to the left 

 meatus auditorius, 20^ Rhinland inches ; from the root of the nose to the first 

 vertebra 20 inches ; a thread drawn all round the head (beginning from the 

 root of the nose, passing across the os frontis, the temporal bones and occiput, 

 and meeting again at the same point in the forehead) measured above 25 Rhin- 

 land inches. On opening the head, and carefully removing the dura mater, the 

 pia mater appeared exceedingly thin and quite transparent, inclosing a great quan- 

 tity of a watery humour as clear as crystal, through which the basis of the brain 

 could be seen ; the basis of the brain, for the substance of the brain was so 

 compressed that there was no appearance of brain, but only a strong membrane, 

 thicker in some places, and thinner in others. The 3 cavities (ventricles) of 



