VOL. XLVI.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 57 



His breath was exceedingly hot ; it came from his nostrils like smoke from a 

 chimney top ; he expanded his nostrils as if he had been violently running ; and 

 the steam was visible for more than a yard distance. 



Dec. 28. This night he broke his collar in pieces, broke down the partition 

 by which he was separated from the place of Dr. S.'s other horse, traversed the 

 stable, attempted to get out ; in order to which he beat down the under half of 

 the stable door; however, in the morning, being spoken to by the servant, he 

 neighed, immediately went to his place, where he stood biting his breast and 

 manger almost continually. His look was now become wild and furious, and 

 about 10 o'clock Dr. S. ordered him to be shot. 



P. S. Dr. S. observed he was always worse, every symptom being aggravated 

 at the time the moon came to the meridian ; which again, as the day declined, 

 in some degree abated. 



Of a Monstrous Fetus without any Distinction of Sex. By Job Baster, Acad. 



Ca-s., F.R.S. N°495, p. 479. 

 A woman about the 7th month of her pregnancy, was delivered of a monstrous 

 child. The head was not of the natural round figure, but pointed at the top. 

 The right arm was well formed; but the radius and ulna of the left much shorter. 

 There was no appearance of any genital parts or anus : but instead the skin lay 

 in rolls, with much fat. From the middle of the belly proceeded one foot only, 

 ending as it were in one toe, but without a nail. 



Experiments on Substances Resisting Putrefaction. By John Pringle,* M.D., 



F.R.S. N''495, p. 480. 

 Having been led to make some experiments and remarks on putrefaction, from 

 the accident of having had an uncommon number of putrid distempers under his 



* Dr. (afterwards Sir) J. Pringle was descended from a good family in Scotland, where he was 

 born in 1707. He studied first at St. Andrew's, next at Edinburgh, and afterwards at Leyden, 

 where he attended the lectures of the celebrated Boerhaave, and took his degree of m. d. there in 

 1730. Not long afterwards he returned to Edinburgh. Here in 1734 he was appointed joint pro- 

 fessor of moral philosophy with Mr. Scott. Through the recommendation of Dr. Stevenson, he was 

 appointed, in 1742, physician to the Earl of Stair, who had the command of the British army that 

 was destined to co-operate with the allies in Flanders. This was the foundation of our author's sub- 

 sequent celebrity and fortune. He was afterwards made physician-general to the British forces in 

 the Low Countries, and physician also to the Duke of Cumberland, whom he attended in his expe- 

 dition against the rebels in Scotland. His services as army-physician ceasing at the peace of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, Dr. P. occupied himself in writing his Observations on the Jail Fever, and in making ex- 

 periments on septic and anti-septic substances, which he communicated to the r. s., and for which 

 he was honoured with the Copleian medal. In 1752 he published his great work, the result of long 

 and diligent observation while he was attached as physician to the land forces, entitled Observations 

 on Diseases of the Army. This work has gone through numerous editions, and its value is too well 



VOL. X. I 



