6s PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17/6. 



the flowers of the hypericum lukc-warm, laid first on the exposed bowels; after- 

 wards the cavity was filled up lightly with the same sort of lint dry; the edges 

 were covered with a moderately warm digestive, and the whole secured with the 

 uniting bandage; which bandage had been used from the very beginning, to pre- 

 vent, as much as art could prevent, the impending mischief. 



3d. Appearances this morning were very favourable ; he hafl slept well most 

 part of the night; his pulse was perfectly quiet, and his skin moderately open. 

 The water was become better coloured, and had made a fair separation ; so that 

 from this time all signs of fever, inflammation, and pain its concomitant, en- 

 tirely ceased; nor did there even arise any alarming, or even disagreeable symp- 

 tom afterwards; but every thing went on in an easy, regular way. The wound 

 digested kindly, and was constantly dressed twice a day, as the quantity, and 

 indeed the quality of the discharge from it required. The opening medicines 

 were repeated occasionally, and his nights secured by a few drops of the Tlieban 

 tincture. '• . ■ . -^-v. i . -, , _. • 



In a few days, the sloughs from the edges of the abdominal muscles separated, 

 and left the sore so largely open, that he could easily discover whence the fasces 

 made their exit, which was from the middle of that part of the colon that lies 

 between the left kidney, to which it is attached, and the upper part of the sa- 

 crum, where it empties itself into, and forms the rectum. It was exceedingly 

 satisfactory and pleasing to observe, from day to day, the progress nature made 

 in renovating this formidable breach, and her means of accomplishing it; for, 

 after a little time, the surface of the intestines looked florid, and began to pul- 

 lulate, throwing up small grains of flesh from every point. These granules, 

 daily increasing, united with each other, and after filling up the intervals between 

 the circumvolutions of the bowels, became one uniform surface; which surface 

 meeting with that of the raw edges of the integuments, they both adhered to- 

 gether, and became one continued sore. As the wound incarned, the fecal dis- 

 charge lessened daily, and about the 22d or 23d day entirely ceased. Mr. N. 

 now allowed him chicken broth, milk porridge, calves-feet jelly, &c. The 

 wound was dressed once a day with dry lint only, and in 7 weeks it was com- 

 pletely healed. ■■ ■ ;: • • i v ;:(■;: 



XXlll. Observations on the Island of Minorca. Bij Mr. Alexander Small, 

 Surgeon to the Train of Artillery at Minorca, p. 439. 



The following conjectures, says Mr. S., may be a kind of adilition to Dr. 

 Cleghorn's account of this island. The new as well as the old town are built in 

 a very dry situation, on a solid rock, on which there is not a drop of stagnating 

 water, nor is there any near the surface of the earth; for the water the inhabi- 

 tants have for use, is either rain water kept in cisterns, or water drawn out of 



