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30. Materia Medica e Regno Lapideo. 

 J, Lindhult. 1752. 



Under 72 heads. Dr. Lindhult has comprifed all 

 the fimples of the Materia Medica from the foITil 

 kingdom, digefted exadly in the method obferved 

 by LiNN^us himfelf, in his feparate publication 

 of the vegetable Materia Medica. 



37. MoRBi EX Hyeme. S. Brodd. 1752, 



Preceding the hiilory of the difeafes arifing from 

 winter cold in Sweden, Dr. Brodd gives a general 

 account of the effedls of intenfe cold on the ani- 

 ^lals of the country, in changing their colour, 

 diminilhing the fize of the breed in various fpe- 

 cies ; and in Lapland, he thinks it is inftanced in 

 the human race itfelf : the ftate of the atmo- 

 fphere ; the production of meteors ; differences 

 obfervable in the particles of the fliow ; effeds of 

 various and additional degrees of cold on the ice of 

 lakes, y^". ; extraordinary appearance of the Aurora 

 Borealis ; prognoftics of fevere winters ; and ligns 

 of the approaching remiffions of cold ; with other 

 curious particulars. 



The difeafes of the winter feafon in Sweden are 

 more particularly fuch as follow : Perniones, or 

 Kibes, unufually painful and untradable ; for 

 the cure, among other applications mentioned, is 

 the diluted marine acid, recommended by Lin- 

 K^us himfelf, who had found it ufeful among 

 the faiiors when he was phyfician to the fleet ; but 

 this cannot be ufed when the difeafe is advanced 



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