( 5* ) 
obiit. Foeminam iftam adhuc viventem vidit non tan- 
tum, 5 C hac figura ad vivum depingere curavir, fed 
ipfam Plicam port obitum refedatn fecum Witteber- 
gam attalit ClariiT. D. Flouricke di£ti Principis Medi- 
cus. Erat autem Plica quatuor ulnas longa, palmum 
lata, duofque pollices craifa, fed altero tanto longior 
foret, ipfo referente, nifi rnagna ejus pars, temporis 
quo sgra decubuit diuturnitate, fqualore &C attritu 
confumpta fuiffet. Hunc ergo Cafum penitus extra- 
ordinariura, iliuftriflimje Societati Regali exponere 
volui. Spero autem fore, ut impofterum de circum- 
ftantiis lingularibus hujus cafus a laudato Viro certior 
reddar, quas alio tempore communicabo. 
VIII. An BxtraSl of a Letter from Sir Conrad 
Sprengell, M. D. <1^. S. S. Lf Coll. Med . Lond. 
Licen. to Dr. Mortimer} wherein he inclofed the 
foregoing Account of the Plica Polonica 5 toge- 
ther with an Article from the 'BreflatD 
son I3atut* tuft S^eWcfn, &c. ©efcljtcfiten upon the 
fame Subject, tranflated from the High-Dutch 
by Dr. Mortimer, < 2 ^. 5. Seer. 
SIR, January zo th, 1 73a. 
* * * r T"'H E Plica has been always related, 
X and thought to be a Diftemper, and to 
proceed from a Fever or Convulfions } but for my Part, 
from the belt Information I could get concerning it, I 
G a think 
