\*li PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1745. 



pares for its change, and spins itself up in a fine soft silken case, in which it lies 

 all the winter in the chrysalis state, till the spring, when it eats its way out of its 

 clay dwelling. 



For several other curious particulars, with the figures of such clay nests, and 

 the wasps, see M. Reaumur's excellent work, vol. vi. on the clay nests from St. 

 Domingo. 



Extract of a Letter from Mr. B — B — r, containing an Account in Pounds and 

 Ounces, of the Surprising Quantities of Food devoured by a Boy, 12 Years old, 

 in Six Successive Days, who laboured under a Canine Appetite, at Black 

 Barnsley in Yorkshire. Communicated by Dr. Mortimer, Sec. R. S. Dated 

 April \5, \7A5. N" 476, p. 366. 



The boy was regular as other children, till about a year before the above date, 

 when this extraordinary craving of appetite first began ; which afflicted him to 

 such a degree, that if he was not fed as he called out for it, he would gnaw the 

 very flesh off his own bones ; so that, when awake, he was constantly devouring ; 

 it could hardly be called eating, because nothing passed his stomach ; all was 

 thrown up again. 



Of the various substances, bread, meat, beer, milk, water, butter, cheese, 

 sugar, treacle, pudding, rye, fruit, broth, potatoes, &c. he swallowed in the 6 

 successive days, as follows : viz. 



Thursday 69 lb 8 oz. 



Friday 61 14 



Saturday 58 8 



Sunday T7 O 



Monday 60 12 



Tuesday 55 8 



•Salt 1 in the six days. 



Total 384 2 



Of an Iliac Passion, occasioned by an Appendix in the Ilion. By the late Clau- 

 dius Amy and, Esq. F.R.S. N° 476, p. 369. 



A lad about 10 years of age, seemingly in perfect health, after drinking some 

 sour small beer, complained of a violent colic : which increasing with great ten- 

 sion of the belly, and continual vomitings of excrements, he died 3 days after 

 of a miserere, ending in a mortification of the inflamed guts. 



He was suspected to have been poisoned; which occasioned Mr. MaccuUough's 

 being sent for to open him. All the large guts were found empty, up to an ap 



