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epigastric region was quite emptied; but they found a great fullness, which 

 extended itself on each side the inguen, towards the back. They put her on a 

 very spare dry diet, and gllowed her but a quarter of a pint of liquids in the 24 

 hours. But though her urine much exceeded in quantity what she drank, the 

 swelling increased, and they feared the belly would soon fill again. A lady, who 

 was with her, said that, just before she left London, she had heard that two 

 persons had been cured of confirmed dropsies by being anointed, morning and 

 evening, with common sallad oil, which was rubbed into the whole abdomen, 

 for an hour at a time, with a warm hand. They could not refuse the trial of so 

 innocent a method. The idtraleiptae began their operation. About the 3d day 

 of anointing, the urine was considerably increased, and continued to be so. The 

 fullness gradually decreased, and in a fortnight's time was quite gone. Her 

 appetite, digestion, and sleep, grew natural, and she recovered flesh, strength, 

 and spirits. About 6 weeks after her first anointing, her menses appeared, and 

 at the end of the next month she had a regular return of good colour, and in 

 sufficient quantity. Dr. O. saw her at the public room a week befoie, in as good 

 health as she ever enjoyed. 



This recovery was much talked of, and set all the hydropics on rubbing. A 

 man, aged 35, from hard drinking, and many wrong methods of cure, had 

 been cachectic 1 5 years, and had often the symptoms of jaundice and dropsy. 

 Half a year before, his belly, legs, and thighs, swelled to an enormous size. He 

 was with difficulty moved from his bed to his chair, and was given over, as a 

 person in an incurable dropsy. About 3 weeks before, he began to anoint. After 

 3 or 4 days rubbing, his urine was greatly increased; and in a fortnight, his 

 belly, thighs, and legs, were wonderfully decreased; and Dr. O. saw him after- 

 wards walking about the town, though before he could not move a joint. 



A woman 70 years of age, of a thin habit, who got a livelihood by carry- 

 ing cakes about the town, fell into an ascites. Her belly was so greatly dis- 

 tended, that she was obliged to quit her business, to confine herself to her house, 

 and for the most part to her bed. She anointed. Her urine soon increased in 

 quantity, and continued to do so. 



XIV. Observations of the Eclipses of Jupiter s Satellites at Lisbon. By John 



Chevalier, F. R. S. p. 48. 

 Jan. 1 1, 1754, he observed the immersion of the 2d satellite at Q^ 4"' 3\ — 

 Jan. 15, the 1st satellite immerged at 11*' 23™ 58'. — Jan. 18, the 2d satellite 

 immerged at ll'' SS"" 30'. 



*£5" 



XV. Of those Malignant Fevers, that raged at Rouen, at the End of the Year 

 1753, and the Beginning of 1754. By Mons. Le Cat, M. D. p. 49. 

 About the end of Nov. 1753, a malignant distemper broke out in Rouen; 



