40 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, [aNNO 1744. 



Before Mr. W. was thus satisfied, he imagined this accident to have pro- 

 ceeded rather from Lobel's oenanthe; thinking, that as that plant grows near the 

 sides of rivers, these soldiers might have gathered it by the river Lee, which 

 runs by the town, and eaten it for smallage, to which it has some resemblance. 



It is now known, that the cicuta major, the cicuta aquatica, and the CEnanthe 

 of Lobel, are certain poisons ; but there are two others of the same class, grow- 

 ing common in England, and not much unlike these in smell and other circum- 

 stances, vehemently to be suspected ; the one is the cicutaria tenuifolia of Mr. 

 Ray, which grows frequently in waste places, and in gardens among pot-herbs, 

 of which De la Champ gives some account of its malignancy; the other is the 

 cicutaria palustris of Lobel and Tabernaemontanus, or phellandrium of Dodonaeus, 

 which grows in muddy ditches and ponds. 



Mr. W. does not remember any history of the pernicious effects of the cicuta 

 major in this kingdom; but as the detecting poisonovxs plants is of very great 

 consequence, he presumed to lay this paper before the society. 



A new Method of Calculating Eclipses of the Sun ; also of Occultations of the 

 Planets and Stars by the Moon. By Christian Lewis Garsten, F. R. S. and 

 Prof, of Math, in the Academy of Giessen. N° 473, p. 22. 



The more modem methods and tables for calculating such eclipses and occulta- 

 tions, being by far more correct than the present tedious paper, it is of no use 

 to reprint it in this place. 



Further Accounts of the Success of injecting Medicated Liquors into the Abdomen, 

 in the Case of an Ascites. By Mr. Chr. IVarwick, Surgeon at Truro in Corn- 

 wall. N° 473, p. 47. 



Mr. W. here states, that the patient whom he tapped for a drbpsy, and of 

 whose case an account was inserted in Phil. Trans. N° 472, remained in the same 

 state May 24th 1744, though she had laboured under a tertian ague ever since 

 last January. 



Mr. W. then acknowledges the kind communication of Dr. Hales' judicious 

 remarks and improvement on his discovery, did him great honour and pleasure ; 

 and the more so, as he was so happy as to have discovered the use and efficacy of 

 injections by means of one puncture only, on a poor woman, about 10 days be- 

 fore he received that communication ; from whom he drew near fifty pints of 

 dropsical lymph, by an easy transmutation thereof into an appropriated medicinal 

 fluid ; which was, without any difficulty, retained within the cavity near 2 hours, 

 and, at the close of the operation, drawn all off at once, without the least symp- 

 tom of a syncope from inanition ; of which he intended to give a further account. 



