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thing came constantly draining away by the anus, of a very offensive smell, which 

 on examination appeared to be true pus. He now began to think Dr. Nichols's 

 opinion of her case the most eligible, and the rather, as it was not inconsistent 

 with his own sentiments, that there had been a child; which, being now dead, 

 might have given occasion for the forming such an abscess. 



In this state of violent pain she continued to the time of her death, which hap- 

 pened on the 28th of January, being 13 weeks from the first of her illness; when, 

 by her particular desire, he opened her. After having divided the integuments of 

 the abdomen, every tFiing, at first view, appeared in a healthy state. On turning 

 aside the intestines, he found the uterus sound and perfect, and of a size com- 

 mon to women who have had children; but, in the place of the right Fallopian 

 tube, there appeared a large tumour, formed by the expansion of the tube ex- 

 tending itself from the os ilium towards the extremity of the sacrum. Opening 

 it, he discovered a mass of fetid pus, in which the bones of a foetus, of about 5 

 or 6 months old, were buried. These bones were, for the most part, wholly 

 divested of their flesh ; so that the edges of the thin bones must, of necessity, cut 

 and irritate from every motion of the body. The pus had made its way through 

 the rectum, in which there was a small passage a little above the sphincter. 



On examining the bones, after having washed them in water, a new matter of 

 surprise appeared; viz. the inferior jaw was consolidated with the os temporis and 

 superior maxilla; and 6 of the ribs, with their correspondent vertebra, were 

 united into one bone. 



Concernmg a Rotatory Motion of Glass Tubes about their Axes, when placed in 

 a certain Manner before the Fire. By the Rev. Granville PFheler, F. R. S, 

 N°476, p. 341. 



About 4 years before, Mr. Charles Orme, of Ashby de la Zouch in Leicester- 

 shire, acquainted Mr. W. that in drying the glass tubes for his diagonal baro- 

 meters, he had observed a rotatory motion about their axes, and at the same time a 

 progressive one towards the fire. And a little above a year since, Mr. W. making 

 some stay at Ashby, he went to see the experiment, which answered fully to the 

 description : the tubes, which were about 4 feet long, and half an inch over, 

 moving at 6 or 8 inches distance from the fire, not only progressively, and about 

 their axes along the side-wall they leaned against, but along the front-wall of the 

 chimney, which made an obtuse angle with the other; so that they seemed to 

 move up hill, and against their weight. 



Surprised at this, he thought the case deserved a little further examination; and 

 proposed placing 2 tubes horizontally, parallel to each other, and at right angles 

 to the face of the fire, to be supporters to a third, which was to be placed upon 

 them parallel to the fire. They did so, and with pleasure observed the supported 



