6k6 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 176'2. 



watch up every day, which he carefully observed. From the foregoing remarks, 

 he made the following corrections. 



Centre of Venus on the sun's limb at ingress 8^ 12™ 54* 



Interior contact at the ingress 8 20 58 



Interior contact at the egress 2 II 34 



Centre of Venus on the sun's limb at the egress 2 19 38 



Total egress 2 27 38 



And if the same time be allowed for the first semidiameter of the 

 planet coming on as the other 3, it must have commenced at 



• gh 4m 50*, so that the total duration was 6 22 48 



XCVII. A further Account of the Case of the Family at Wattisham^^ in Suffolk, 



whose Limbs mortified. By Charlton Wollaston, M.D., F. R. S. Dated 



Pall Mall, Oct. 29, 1762. p. 584. 



As the Society may be curious to know some further particulars relating to 

 this singular calamity, I thought it might not be improper to acquaint them that 

 most of the unhappy sufferers have survived it. The father is perfectly recovered ; 

 except that the two fingers, which were particularly affected, remain in some 

 degree contracted. 



The mother is still alive. In my former account I mentioned that one of her 

 feet had separated at the ancle; and that the other leg was perfectly sphacelated 

 to within a few inches of the knee, but not then taken off. Some little time 

 afterwards the husband broke off the tibia, which was quite decayed, about 3 

 inches below the knee: the fibula was not decayed; so the surgeon sawed it off. 

 The stumps of both legs still continue unhealed ; and as the ends of the bones in 

 both of them seem to be carious, and the woman will not consent to any further 

 operation, they may perhaps never heal. The mortification however has not in 

 this limb, nor indeed in any one of these cases, spread beyond the original se- 

 paration. Her right arm is considerably wasted, and the fingers contracted. 

 The eldest girl Mary died within a few weeks after I saw her. The 2d girl 

 Elizabeth is perfectly well: the sores quite healed. The 3d girl Sarah is not yet 

 well. Her foot separated at the articulation of the os scaphoides with the astra- 

 galus. The OS calcis and astragalus are both of them carious, and probably keep 

 the wound from healing. The 2 boys are perfectly recovered; and seem in every 

 respect as healthy as possible. 



I have taken all the pains I could to inquire into the cause of so remarkable a 

 disorder ; and Mr. Bones, the minister of the village, who knew the family 

 before this misfortune happened to them, and has ever since been indefatigable 



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See p. 626'. 



