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It is suspected that great degrees of electrifying have occasioned some women 

 to miscarry ; and no wonder that such sudden shocks should do it. 



Mr. King, the experimenter, observes, that a piece of linen that has never 

 been washed, will soon give a good degree of electricity to a large warm glass 

 tube ; viz. on account of the mealy paste, which weavers dress the linen with ; 

 and therefore any piece of linen thus dressed will do. 



The Dr. gave an account, in the General Evening Post of Sept. 1747, of 

 the great benefit of ventilators in Newgate, and in the Success frigate for Greor- 

 gia, which lay five months wind-bound in our channel with the transports for 

 Cape Breton, the rest of which were all very sickly ; but in the Georgia frigate, 

 in which were about 300 men, all were in good health, and they got all in 

 health to Georgia. 



On the Cure of a IVound in the Cornea, and a Laceration of the Uvea in the Eye 

 of a Woman. By Tho. Aery, M.D. N° 488, p. 411. 



A poor widow, aged 26, of a pale complexion, was for several years at times 

 subject to the colic. Dec. 26, 1744, she received a wound in the cornea of her 

 right eye, by the spear of a common fork, which also divided the uvea. Part of 

 the aqueous humour was discharged, the eye lost its transparency, had a violent 

 pain in it, and she could only distinguish objects when she looked down. Dr. A. 

 ordered her a collyrium prepared of the bals. tolut. camphor, solut. in sp. vin. aq. 

 plantag. cum pauxillo tinct. mart. Mynsicht. A few drops of this blood-warm 

 was to be used frequently ; to bleed her largely in the arm, and her diet was to 

 consist of water-gruel, aq. hord. and fresh broth. 



Next day she had no pain in the eye, but complained she saw motes floating 

 before it : he ordered her a purge, and an astringent fomentation to her temples 

 and eyelids. The day following the eye was inflamed, and the lids tumefied, and 

 she had a pain in her head. The collyrium was changed for rose-water and vi- 

 negar, aa § ss. roche alum gr. v. 3 drops twice a day. The 29th the inflamma- 

 tion increasing, the purge and bleeding were repeated, and the parts were {o- 

 mented only with spirit of wine. The 31st the inflammation continued to 

 decrease, till after a fright. Jan. 5th the inflammation increasing, the sides of 

 the wound became a little protuberant. The purge was repeated, and a blister 

 laid behind the right ear, and an emollient collyrium was used : next day the 

 swelling of the eyelids was gone : the 1 1 th she had a show of the menses, and 

 the wound appeared healed : from the 1 5th to the 24th the inflammation con- 

 tinued to abate ; only one day it increased bv fretting and weeping much ; but 

 by bleeding she grew better, and so she continued to the 30th ; except one day, 

 on catching cold, her eye became exceedingly inflamed, which was relieved by 

 bleeding. Feb. 4, she had a little pain in her eye, and the tunica adnata looked 



