VOL. XLII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. JOQ 



Things continued in much the same state the 4th day, but towards the even- 

 ing there were a few streaks of blood mixed with, and subsiding in his water ; 

 which did not much alarm Dr. D. because he did not know but it might be 

 caused by the blisters : he had but one reason to doubt the contrary, and that 

 was, he had had little or no strangury : but as certain persons do aver, there is 

 sometimes such, or even a more bloody sort of waters, occasioned by the flies, 

 even where there shall be no strangury at all, he was willing to hope the best, 

 and so made no other alteration in his process, than to direct a very free use of 

 sp. of vitriol. 



What was ordered, happened to succeed : we had no more of that sort of 

 water, either that night, or the next day, or the morning following : but he 

 was sent for in a great hurry that day, viz. the 6th, in the afternoon, and found 

 his friends in the most terrible consternation ; not only because it returned, but 

 began to increase upon them, and was pouring off in a free manner. It was 

 necessary therefore to proceed in another method, and he accordingly ordered 

 some gum arable, olibanum, and pulvis amyli, and alum, together with a mix- 

 ture of black cherry-water and small cinnamon, and treacle-vvater, with some 

 tinctura antiphthisica and terra japonica in it, and the tincture of roses, strongly 

 acidulated and sweetened with diacodium ; on the use of which it began to abate, 

 and the next day the urine returned to its usual state and colour. There was 

 nothing further observable in the course of this case, except that the distemper 

 was of the coherent kind, and accordingly attended with many other dubious 

 symptoms likewise : for though it is generally thought, that the coherent sort 

 is not so formidable as the confluent; yet, as Dr. Freind has judiciously ob- 

 served, and Moreton before him, there is not so much diflTerence between them, 

 but they are almost always attended with much the same appearances, and the 

 same fevers plainly at the time of maturation : for that the danger does not 

 arise so much from the sort, as from the number of the pustules; which if it be 

 great, there is the like reason to be fearful of the event, whether they flux, or 

 whether they only cohere : all which notwithstanding, this young gentleman 

 had the good fortune to escape. 



Of the Bases of the Cells where the Bees deposile their Honey,. By Mr^ 

 Maclaurin, F.R.S. N°471, p. 565. 



The sagacity of the bees in making their cells of an hexagonal form, has 

 been admired of old ; and that figure has been taken notice of, as the best they 

 could have pitched on for their purposes : but a yet more surprising instance of 

 the geometry of these little insects, is seen in the form of the bases of those 

 cells, discovered in the late accurate observations of Mons. Maraldi and Mons. 



