74 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [anNO 1750. 



plain of a pain and weight in the uterus ; which increased as the substance grew 

 in bulk. ; and at last the excrescence was so large as to appear outwards, and 

 then it grew very fast. The patient consulted her midwife, who thought the 

 womb had come out ; but was so prudent as not to do any thing ; and desired 

 they would call in better advice. Accordingly they sent for Mr. Fell, an 

 eminent man-midwife and surgeon in this city ; who, not having met with a case 

 like that, desired Dr. B. also to go and see her , which was in December last 

 (1749.) The substance not only filled, but extended, the entrance into the 

 vagina. Dr. B. introduced a finger into the passage, and soon found the ex- 

 crescence to be less in bulk there, than what appeared without the body. He 

 followed the substance till he reached the os uteri, which he found chiefly filled 

 up with the neck or smallest part of this substance, leaving only a small part of 

 the OS tincae to be perceived on the left side, obliquely towards the back. He 

 . tried to penetrate the os tincaa with the end of his finger, but could not ; how- 

 ever, he so far opened it, as to let out a sort of bloody ichor, which was a little 

 offensive in smell. Hence, and from other inquiries, he concluded that she had 

 an ulcer just within the os uteri, from the edge of which the fungus or ex- 

 crescence grew. The patient complained of a pain in the uterus and back, was 

 very faint, and frequently was provoked to vomit, with a feeble pulse, and 

 sometimes sweat. 



On consultation it was thought proper to tie a ligature as high up within the 

 vagina as the surgeon could reach : which being done, and some internal me- 

 dicines being ordered, they left her. And 4 or 5 days after, the excrescence 

 dropped off" at the ligature. 



Tlie patient afterwards, in part, recovered her strength ; though she was not 

 in a good state of health, and her fluor albus, as she called it, was still trouble- 

 some to her. The excrescence was very solid, of a dark liver colour, and, while 

 adhering to the uterus, was quite insensible. When cut in two, it resembled 

 the solid substance taken out of cancers. 



The Eclipse of the Moon, June 8, 1750, observed in Surry -street in the Strand. 

 By Mr. John Catlin and Mr. James Short, F. R. S. N° 496, p. 523. 



About half an hour after 9 o'clock, the clouds clearing away, they saw the 

 moon then totally eclipsed ; though considerably brighter on the east than on 

 the west side ; by which -they found that she was then past the middle of the 

 eclipse. They then observed the 



Emersion, or end of total darkness, at Q^ 45" O' 



End of the eclipse at 10 51 30 



