352 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1747. 



right leg, the tibia and fibula, at their union with the os calcis, also the os cal- 

 cis, and the tarsal and metatarsal bones, likewise most of the toes. Of the left 

 leg, the fibula, with some of the metatarsal bones, and some of the toes. The 

 head likewise was very curious : the lambdoidal suture ossified all round, and 

 rose with a prominency half an inch high : the occipital bone had several risings, 

 which felt like several exostosises ; and the 2 protuberant sides of the occipital 

 bone enlarged to a prodigious degree, and united with each other, but with a 

 dent between them which felt like a suture. They were enlarged to about 6 

 inches long, and 3 broad : it was all ossified ; the midwife and nurse said it 

 was soft at first : the rest of the head appeared very well. 



This child was 7 days old : he had reduced the dislocated bones, though some 

 with great difficulty ; for the ends of the bones and cartilages seemed to be all 

 ossifying ; and there seemed to be a universal anchylosis coming on. He could 

 not reduce the right foot well ; it was all ossified, with the bones displaced, and 

 the extensor pedis pollicis longus was contracted, and had drawn the foot almost 

 round. The jaw-bone was also dislocated, which the midwife could easily put in 

 its place, and the chin-stay supported it pretty well, only apt to slip out on one 

 side. The midwife and nurse said they could for the first 2 days, put all the 

 bones in their places with ease, but they continually fell out again. 



The mother received a fall a fortnight before delivery, and she fancied the 

 bones were displaced with the fall, though she did not hurt herself: but whether 

 it was from thence, or from some vice in the fluids, he would not determine. If 

 it were not for several exostosises and anchylosises in several parts, he should 

 have imagined the child (though so young) was rickety ; but for the above reason 

 it could not be that. The child seemed lusty and strong, but he thought would 

 soon be otherwise ; the woman was lusty, and walked out about her business, 

 though but a week before delivered ; and she had 6 children besides, all very 

 healthy. 



On the Situation of the Ancient Roman Station of Delgovitia in Yorkshire. By 

 John Burton, of York, M.D. N°483, p. 541. 



The learned antiquarians have hitherto been greatly at a loss to find the place 

 where the Delgovitia of the Romans really stood ; some supposing it at one 

 place, and some at another. 



Mr. Francis Drake, in his excellent History and Antiquities of York, has 

 given every thing which has hitherto been written in support of the claim made 

 by each place to the honour of rising out of the ruins of that ancient town , with 

 his reasons for fixing that station at Londesburgh ; all which need not now be 

 repeated. 



There are 3 places where the site of Delgovitia has been fixed at; viz. 



