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Mr. N. concludes, that all the evidence here produced to prove the usage of 

 glass windows to have been coeval with the fragment he is now considering, is of 

 the conjectural kind only: for he had not been able to trace it up by any positive 

 authority higher than about 200 years short of the epocha last mentioned, viz. 

 to the latter end of the 3d century, when it is expressly mentioned by Lactan- 

 tius in these words : — Manifestius est, mentem esse, quae per oculos ea, quae 

 sunt opposita, transpiciat, quasi per fenestras lucente vitro aut speculari lapide 

 obductas. De Opificio Dei, cap. 5. 



LXXXI. Of an Extraordinary Case of the Efficacy of the Bark in the Delirium 

 of a Fever. By Nicholas Munckley, M. D., F. R. S. p. 609. 



In this paper it is related that a patient who had been for several days ill of a 

 fever (partaking of the nature of an irregular intermittent), and who from the 

 reduced frequency of pulse and other circumstances appeared to be much better, 

 was seized with a delirium, in which it was difficult for the attendants to keep 

 him in bed. He laughed, played antic tricks, and used gestures the most op- 

 posite to his common demeanour when well ; a state of mind having more the 

 appearance of mania than of the delirium of a fever. Dr. M. prescribed the 

 bark, which put a stop to the delirium, and effected a cure. 



LXXXIL Of an Earthquake felt at Ling field in Surrey , and Edenbridge in 

 Kent, Jan. 24, 1758. By James Burrow ^^ Esq. R. S. K P. p. 6l4. 

 This slight, and rather partial shock, happened between 1 and 2 o'clock in 

 the morning of the day mentioned. It was felt in the parishes of Worthe, and 

 East-Grinsted in Sussex ; Lingfield in Surrey ; and Edenbridge in Kent ; and 

 other adjacent places ; which alarmed several of the inhabitants very much; but 

 no damage ensued. The beds and windows, &c. were sensibly shaken, and at 

 last it went off with a noise like a small gust of wind. 



LXXXJIT. On the Case of the first Joint of the Thumb torn off^ with the Flexor 

 Tendon in its whole Extent torn out.-^ By Robert Home, Surgeon at King- 

 ston on Hull. p. 617. 

 Jan. 2d, 1758, Wm. Taylor, 17 years of age, an apprentice to a white-smith 



* Sir James Burrow, an eminent law) er, and master of the Crown-office, died in 17>^2, at a very 

 advanced age, apparently upwards of 80. In 1773 acting as president of the r.s. till the time of 

 the anniversary election that year, and the Society addressing the king at that time, he received the 

 honour of knighthood on the occasion. Sir James published 4 vols, of Reports ; and one of Deci- 

 sions in the Courts of King's Bench. He wrote also an Essay on Punctuation, and some Anecdotes 

 of Oliver Cromwell and family. 



+ Mr. Home, in the prefatory observations to this communication states, that Marchetis has a 

 case of the same kind, and that there are several others collected together by Mons. Morand in thef 

 2d vol. of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris. 



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