Watfon. 3^21 
lay before that body at their ufual meetings, 
any fjch extracts from the numerous pub- 
lications which were fent to the Society, 
relating to difcoveries in philofophy and the 
arts, as promifed to be of general utility^ 
that they might be recorded in the Philofo-- 
phical TranfaBions^ this office did not un- 
frequently fall upon Mr. Watson. We 
find feveral papers of this nature bearing 
his name. Befides thofe which I have enu- 
merated, relating to natural hiftory ftridtly^ 
and eleilricity, are the following^ as re- 
cited below (^). 
Of his produdlions which have a more 
immediate reference to phyfic, the firft was 
publilhed in the Philofophieal 'TranfaBions^ 
459. " A Cafe wherein Part of the 
Lungs were coughed up." And in the 
fucceeding Number, " An Obfervation re- 
[g) An Account of a Bookj intitled " De quamplurU 
mis Phofphoris nunc primum detc^is Gommentarius Au6lor& 
Jac. Barthol Beccar'w,'^ 4°. Belog, 1 744. Feb. 1 746. 
Vol. xUv. p. 81 — 91. 
An Account of a Treatife in Latin^^ dedicated to the 
Royal Society, intitled Commeniatio de Prcsrsgativa Ther^ 
piarum CaroUnarum in dijfolvcndo Calcido Verias pra Aqua 
Calc'is vivee, Juil* G, C Springsfeld.'' Vol. xlix. p. 895 
-—906^ 
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