(5^5) 
other remedies thofe protuberances were gonej nor are there any 
footfteps left of the abovementioned Difeafe. 
The tm other Trials were made upon the other Sex. A mar- 
ried woman of 35. and afervingMaid of 20 years of age^ had 
been both of them from their Birth very grievoufly afHifted with 
Efilepick fits, fo that there was little hopes left to cure them. 
They both underwent this operation, and there was injeded into 
their Veins a Laxattve Kofm, difiblved in an Anti-EfilepkaU 
Spirit. The fir(l of thefe, had gentle ftools, fome hours after 
the Injedion, and the next day the fits recurring now and then, 
but much miider, are fince altogether vaniflit, As for the other, 
'viz. iht Maid, fliewmt the fame day to ftool4. times, and 
feveral times the next y but by going into the air, and taking 
cold, and not obferving any diet, cafther felf away. 
'Tis remarkable, that it was common to all three, to vomit 
foon after theinjedion and that extremely and frequently ^ the 
reafon whereof we leaveto intelligent Phyfitians toafligne, 
' . ■ An ExtraSl 
of a Letter 3 written from the Bermudas, giving m account of 
the Courje of the Tides there ^ of Wells both Salt and Sweet, 
dig£d near the Sea 5 of the Whale-fifliing there fraBifed a- 
new^ andof fuch WhzkSf as have the S^^rma Cm inthem^ 
This Letter was Tvrhte» June 18. 1667, i^y that Imelligent Gentleman^ 
Mr, Richard Norwood, living upon tbe piace.^ and relating as follows j 
SIR, 
I Received your Letter of oSioher 24. 1666, but, whereas you 
mention another formerly fent, that never came to my hands: 
Neither hadlj before the receipt of yours, the leaft intelligence 
of the Inftitution of the R. Society^ founded by the King bui 
am very glad^ that God hath pot into the heart of his Majefty, 
jco advance fach a Noble defigne, and fliould rejoyce^, I were able 
to add iliy Mite for the furtherance of it. As to the particu- 
lars, yoti recommend to me, I fhall anfwer to them, as I can, in 
:he order/ I find them 
touching tiie Conjunsfiion of M.crcury with the Sun y 
N n n which 
