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solved, and no parts of the heads of the bones remaining, but an outside, not 

 thicker than an egg-shell. 



On making incisions in her legs and arms, 5 or 6 inches long, he found the 

 outer laminae of the bones soft, and become perfectly membranous, about the 

 thickness of the peritoneum, containing, instead of a bony substance, a fluid 

 of the consistence of honey, when it is thick, of a reddish colour, not at all 

 disagreeable to the smell : there was no appearance of any bones in her leg and 

 arms, except near the joints, which were in part dissolved, and what remained 

 were very soft, and full of holes, like a honey-comb : also the bones of the 

 head would easily give way to the pressure of the finger. 



It is remarkable, that those parts of the bones that are the most compact and 

 hard, were first dissolved, while their heads, which are more spongy and soft, 

 had not so entirely lost their substance. 



When she was in health, she was 5 feet high, but after her death she was 

 but 3 feet 7 inches in length, though all her limbs were stretched out straight, 

 which is 17 inches shorter than she was in her health. 



Extracts of Two Letters from Dr. John Lining, at Charles-Town in South 

 Carolina, giving an Account of Statical Experiments made on himself, several 

 times in a Day, for one whole Year, accompanied with Meteorological Obser- 

 vations ; to which are subjoined Six General Tables, deduced from the whole 

 Year s Course. N" 470, p. 49I. 



Dr. Lining began the following experiments the first of March 1742, and 

 continued them afterwards, with the loss only of a few days ; and proposed to 

 continue them till the year was finished ; afterwards to make them a few days 

 in every month, and as constantly as possible in epidemic seasons. 



The method he has observed in the tables is this: He weighed himself twice 

 a day, in the morning immediately after he rose, and again before he went to 

 bed at night. As in July 1, his weight at 6-^ a. m. was lib. J 65 13 0, at 10 at 

 night was 167 5 4, &c. 11 oz. was the quantity of urine excreted from 6-J- in the 

 morning, to 104- that night: and Q-J- oz. was the urine from 10 p. m. of the 

 first day, to 74- in the morning of the second day. The figures placed in the 

 next column, directly opposite to these quantities of urine, express the quantity 

 perspired in the same space of time ; thus, 68 oz. 3 drs. was perspired between 

 6-4- a. m. and lOi- p. m. in the first day, and 234^ oz. the quantity perspired from 

 104- p. m. of the first day, to 104- a. m. in the 2d day. 



The number of pulses he took in the morning, and immediately before he 

 went to bed at night. 



In the column titled excret. alv. the quantity is in oz. and drs. When the 



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