•284 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1758. 



here extended and illustrated are pointed out. I shall put an end to this paper 

 with observing, that if, in the series given, the even powers of x, or any other 

 terms whatever be wanting, their places must be supplied with cyphers ; which, 

 in the order of numbering off, must be reckoned as real terms. 



Okservation of a Lunar Eclipse, made at Lisbon, July 30, 1757- By J. Che- 

 valier, F. R. S. From the Latin, p. 769. 

 At 9*^ IS"™ 18* Beginning of the penumbra. 



9 22 24 Beginning of the eclipse, doubtful. 

 9 23 34 Certainly now begun. 



10 55 40 The greatest obscuration. 

 12 28 26 End of the eclipse. 



Cf^. Singular Observations on the Marichenille ^pple.* By J. A. Peyssonel^ 

 M.D., F.R.S. Fyom the French, p. 772. 



The cruel effects of the manchenille are well known : its milk, which the 

 savages make use of to poison their arrows, makes the wounds mortal. The rain 

 which washes the leaves and branches causes blisters to rise like boiling oil ; even 

 the shade of the tree makes those who repose under it to swell ; and its fruit is 

 esteemed a deadly poison. 



Of the following facts Dr. P. can vouch for the truth : One Vincent Banchi, 

 of Turin in Piedmont, a strong robust man, and a soldier, of about 45 years of 

 age, belonging to the horse, was a slave with the Turks 1 1 years, having been 

 taken prisoner at the siege of Belgrade. He was overseer of Dr. P.'s habitation 

 towards the month of July of the year 1756. He was one day walking on the 

 sea-side, and seeing a great number of apples on the ground, was charmed with 

 their beautiful colours and sweet smell, resembling that of the apple called d'apis : 

 he ate of them ignorantly, and found they had a subacid taste ; and having eaten 

 2 dozen, he filled his pockets, and came home eating the rest, till the negroes 

 told him it was mortal. 



About an hour afterwards his belly swelled considerably, and he felt a con- 

 suming fire in his bowels. He could not keep himself upright ; and at night 

 the swelling of his belly increased, with the burning sensation of his bowels. 

 His lips were ulcerated with the milk of the fruit, and he was seized with cold 

 sweats : but the principal negro made him a decoction of the leaves of a ricinus-f- 

 in water, and made him drink plentifully of it, which brought on a vomiting, 



• The manchenille or mancaneel-tree is the hippomane mancinella of Linneus : it is elegantly 

 figured in the Appendix to Catesby's Carolina. 

 + Avellana purgatrix ; in French, medicinier. — Orig. 



