093 ) NnmbA^^, 
PHrLOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Decemb^ 14^ 1674. 
_ ™ . CONTENTS. 
A KeUtion of a very odd kind of Bleeding in a little Child. Some ^ue^ 
ties and Anfivers relating to an Accompt given in Numb. 54. of a. 
firangeJuAke in Carniola. A Narrative of feme Obfervations made • 
uponlfeveral Voyages^ undertaken to find a North-Eaft PaiTage ; to^ 
get her with hfiruitions given by Dutch Eaft- India Company 
for the difcovery of the famous Land of ]t^o near Japan./4 Relation * 
about a North-Weft PafTage. An Accompt of three Books. LA Dif- 
courfe made before the Royal Society, iVi?x'm^.2 6* iSi^^concern" 
^ngthefdfe of DUPLICATE PKOPORllONMfundry impor- 
tant Farticularsitogether vpith a NervHypothefis of ELJSTl^B 
or Springj Motions^ By Sr. William Petty Knight^ Fellow of the 
faid Society. IL thefecond Book of the ART ofMETTJLS, &c. * 
written in Sfanijh by Alonfo Barba, and Engliflft hj the late Earl 
^/Sandwich. llI.AnimadverJlons on the Firflpart ofthe MACHU 
NA COELESTIS of the defervedly famof^ ]oh^nn^s Hevelius • 
together with an Explication of fome Inftruments ^ made by Rob. 
Uook^Geom.Prof in Grefh.CoU.and Fellow of the R.Society* 
A Relation fent Novemb. 16. 1674. from a very credible and ingeni- 
om Perfin, Mir.SamuelcIu Card, Reefer of Vonow in Shropftire, 
to Dr.Ra.Bathurft Vice-Chancellor of the Univerfity ofQ^ford.and 
by him communicated to a Friend of his in London ; concerning a 
Jtrange kind of Bleeding in a little Child, 
I Am bold to give you a Narration of the Diftemper of a Child at 
Lillefhall, dilittlc Town in Shrofjhire^ becaufeit is very unufual, 
Cifever the like hath been heard by you beforej^nd alio becaufe I 
have certain evidence of the thing. The Child was a quarter of a yeax"* 
old,whenit was taken with a Bleed ing at the Nofe and Ears,and be- 
hind the hinder parr of the Head, where was nothing at ail of any 
Sore. This lafted for three days ; at the end of which, the Nofe and 
Ears ceafed bleeding ; but ftill blood came, as it were fweac/roni 
the Head. Three days before the death of the Child(vvhich was the 
fixth day fince fhe began %o bleed ) the blood came more violently 
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