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of thick, slimy matter, attended with sharp pains in the urinary passages : this 

 water was not high coloured. The next day, she made water of a truly urinous 

 kind with less pain; and continued to make a little water every day, the pain 

 daily decreasing; and on the 7th she voided about a pint. Afterwards she had 

 often a suppression of urine for 10 or 14 days; and once for 2 months, during 

 which she had no vomiting; but her body was very much swelled. In July 

 1759, according to her own account, she did not usually make above half a pint 

 in 14 hours ; and sometimes scarcely so much in 2 days. The catamenia were 

 then irregular; her sleep short, and disturbed; she had very little appetite; her 

 legs swelled; and the rest of her body wasted. 



XXVI. Several Accounts of the Fiery Meteor, which appeared on Sunday Nov, 

 2d J 1758, between 8 and g at Night. Collected by John Pringle, M.D., 

 F.R.S. p. 218. 

 Dr. Pringle first states the collection of observations as sent to him, and then 



makes his remarks on them. The observations abridged are as follow : 



1 . Mr. Mudge, of Plymouth, says he thinks he can venture positively to say 

 the meteor was not seen at Plymouth. Besides a very minute and particular 

 scrutiny among the people of the town, as he was apprehensive the narrowness 

 of the streets, and height of the houses, might have been the cause of their not 

 observing it, the lieutenant-governor was so obliging, at his request, to send a 

 seijeant to inquire of every soldier in the garrison: and as some of them must 

 have been on centinel duty that evening, if the meteor had appeared above their 

 horizon, it could not have escaped them, as the garrison is situated on an emi- 

 nence, and the prospect bounded by the sky only. Dr. Huxham also stated that 

 he did not believe the meteor had been seen at Plymouth. 



2. The Rev. Dr. Shipley, minister of Silchester in Hampshire, a parish about 

 45 miles w.s.w. of London, said, ' that he had not a view of the meteor him- 

 self, but had conversed with 3 countrymen, his parishioners, who had seen it : 

 that they had all agreed in observing the light to be greater than that of moon- 

 shine; and one of them in particular said it was so great that he could easily have 

 seen a pin lying on the ground: that the body at first was like a large shooting 

 star, but fcvith a slower motion : that its direction was northerly : that during its 

 progress it increased in size, leaving a stream of light behind; and at last, as it 

 declined to the horizon, its lower part became in appearance as broad as his hand, 

 while the length of the whole seemed to be about 5 feet, of a conical figure, 

 ending in a point upwards: that before it reached the horizon, it burst into a 

 flame, resembling a flash of lightning, and then immediately disappeared. Dr. 

 Shipley going to the spot where the observer had stood, and making him point 

 to some trees at a distance, over which he said the meteor disappeared, the Dr. 



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