496 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I76O. 



shirt was changed, and sitting up in bed, he was refreshed with a glass of strong 

 wine and a piece of bread. x\fter this he rose and dressed, and took a gentle 

 walk. 



Dr. B. observed, that no patient who came thither received the least prejudice 

 by the waters, though all did not receive a like benefit for their respective dis- 

 orders. But one gentleman in particular, who came ])aralytic in the whole infe- 

 rior extremities of his body, occasioned by hard drinking, was so far relieved as 

 to walk without help. Others were cured of disorders in the skin, and relieved 

 in rheumatic and many other complaints. 



LXXIV. A Specimen of the Labour of a Kind of Bees,* which lay up their 

 Young in Cases of Leaves^ which they Bury in Rotten JVood. By Sir Fran. 

 Eyles Styles, Bart., F. R. S. p. 844. 



Mr. S. makes no doubt but these bees are the same as described in the Phil. 

 Trans, by Sir Edm. King, Mr. F. Willoughby, and Dr. Lister. The specimen 

 was found in some park pales near Windsor in the latter end of the summer. 

 One of the bees hatched, and crawled from its case, on Whitsunday, and 

 by an empty case Mr. S. saw, that was broken open much in the same manner, 

 he imagined another had hatched, and flown away a little before. The remainder 

 he presumed would not come to life, as he observed that some foreign insect had 

 made its way into some of the cases ; and others might have been chilled in the 

 winter by the fracture of the wood in which they were inclosed. 



LXXV. On a Case of a Luxated Thigh Bone reduced. By Mr. Charles Young, 



Surgeon at Plymouth, p. 846. 



As John Down, a middle sized man, aged about 40, was, on the 21st August 

 1759, harnessing his master s horses, they suddenly took fright and ran away 

 with the chaise. He had his back towards the chaise, the wheel c»f which as it 

 rolled very swiftly along struck him on the upper and hinder part of the right 

 thigh. He fell to the ground and was unable to rise again, and complained im- 

 mediately of a violent pain in his right hip. Mr. Y. came to bim soon after the 

 accident, and caused him to be put to bed; when on examination, he found his 

 only complaint was the violent pain about the articulation of the femur with the 

 ischium, which was increased by any, even the least, motion of the limb. The 

 toe was tunied in toward the heel of the left foot, and the heel of course out- 



• The bees of this kind are generally referred by authors to tlie species called by Liimeus apis 

 centuncularis; but from more accurate noodern observations, and more particularly from those of the 

 ingenious Mr. Kirby, in his work entitled Monographia Apuni Angliae, it appears that 3 or 4 species 

 have been usually confounded together under one common name. It is probable however that the 

 species here intended is tJie apis wUIugbicUa of Mr, Kirby. 



