|$yS MiJceQanea Curiofa. 



ing as this or that happens to fall in with the 

 inward Repletion. 



The Afflux of Humours to Ulcers is fbmetimes 

 manifeftly altered by this Power ; (a) Baglivi 

 was acquainted with a Learned Young Man at 

 Rome, who labour'd under a Fiftula in the Abdo- 

 men, penetrating to the Colon, which difcharged 

 fb plentifully in the Increafe, and fo fparingly in 

 the Decreafe of the Moon, that he could make a 

 very true judgment of the Periods and Quadra- 

 tures of the Planet, from the different quantity 

 of the Matter that came from Him. 



'Nephritic Paroxyfms have frequently been 

 obferved to obey the Lunar Attraction : Tulpius 

 (b) relates the Cafe of Mr. Ainfworth, an Eng- 

 U(h Minifter at Amflerdam, who had a Fit of the 

 Gravel and fuppreflion of Urine every Full Moon, 

 of which he found no relief till the Moon de> 

 creafed, unlefs by Bleeding at the Arm. After 

 his death two large Stones were taken out of his 

 Bladder, and the Pelvis of the left Kidney was 

 enlarged to that degree by the quantity of Urine 

 fb often ftopt there, as to contain aimoft as much 

 as the Bladder it /elf. 



I was prefent, not long fince, at the Diffe&ion 

 of a Child about 5 or 6 Year old, who dyed 

 of the frequent returns of Nephritic Fits, attended 

 with Vomitings and a Diarrhea. - The Kidneys 

 and Ureters were quite fluffed with a {limy calcu- 

 lous Matter, and it was very inftru&ive to fee 

 the different degrees of Concretion in the feveral 

 parts of it, from a clear limpid Water, to a hard 

 friable Sublrance. Dr. Groenvelt, who had tend* 



ed 



(a) De Experiment, circa Sanguin. pt m. 341. 



(b) Obfervat. Lib. a* c. 43, vii* ctUm Obferv* $2, 



