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formerly (hewed me in the Lord Robert s his Carden 
againft the Berry, to whom both he and his Father were 
Gardiners. 
Virginia Plane-tree. Ray 1707. Platanus Occidental it 
aut Virginenfs. Park. 1427. Platanus Occidental is- pilulis 
minoribus hernt. H. Leyd. 499. Platanus NoviOrbisi olijs 
Vcfpertiliorum alas referentibus, globulis parvis Aim. Bet. 
300. This differs from the Oriental Plane in havirg its 
Leaves hoary and lefs jagged, with Fruit fmaller and 
not fo rough. Mr. John Tradefcant firft brought thi 3 
into England from Virginia , a little before the Year 1640. 
fince which time it has been much increafed, and makes 
n very Ornamental fhady Tree, interfpets’d between 
Horfe- Chejinuts and Limes , to whofe Magnitude it com- 
monly grows. 
III. A Relation of a?i Hydropical Cafe ? in which the 
' Gall Bladder was difl ended to an unufual bignefs. By 
. Mr James Yonge, F. R<S. Surgeon at Plimouth. 
M Rs. Dyer was about 50 Years old, a Mother of 
feveral Children, and very healthful till laft Ja- 
nuary ^ when, after frequent watching upon an extraor- 
dinary occafion, (he was vexed with a Pain in her Belly, 
like the Cholick, but proved the Dropfey Afcitesj and 
crew fo faft in defpite of all I could do to help if, 
that March the 9th, being almoft fuffocated, I was forc’d 
to tapp her by an hollow Needle in the ufual Place, 
and to repeat the Operation fo often as (he filled : And 
by that way difcharged the feveral Quantities of Water, 
at the times here under mentioned. 
Pints. 
