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Beginning Vol. XLIY. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of January and February ,. 1740. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. Part of a Letter from Mr. Wm. Arderon, F.R.S . to Mr. Baker, 
F.R.S. containing a Defection of a Water-Wheel for Mills , in- 
vented by Mr. Philip Williams. With an ExtraCt of a Letter from 
the Rev. Dr. Samuel Salter to Mr. Arderon, concerning the Bark 
preventing catching Cold. Page i . 
II. A Third Account of the Difiemper among the Cows ^ by C. Mor- 
timer, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Phyfcians , and Se- 
cretary of the Royal Society, London. p. 4. 
III. De Diaphragmate fiffo^ <& mutatis quorundam Vifcerum Sedibus , 
in Cadavere Puellre decern Menfum obfervatis y Epijlola Johannis 
Fothergill M. D. ad Richardum Mead. p. n. 
IV. A Letter from Mr. Wm. Arderon, F. R. S. to Mr. Baker, F. R. S. 
on keeping of fm all Fijh in Glafs Jars : And of an eafy Method of 
catching Fijh. p. 23. 
V. Extracts of two Letters from the Reverend Henry Miles, D. D. 
F.R.S. to Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S. concerning the Effects of 
a Cane of black Sealing-wax, and a Cane of Brimftone, in electri- 
cal Experiments . p. 27. 
VI. A remarkable Cafe of a Perfon cut for the Stone in the new Way , 
commonly called the lateral ; by William Chefelden, Efq; Surgeon 
to tier late Majefty ; communicated to Martin Folkes, Efq ; Pr. R. S. 
by Mr. Reid, Surgeon at Chelfea, who attended the Cure. p. 33. 
VI 4 . The EffeCts of the Lixivium Saponis, taken inwardly by a Man 
aged 75 Tears , who had the Stone , a?id in whofe Bladder , after 
his Deceafe , were found Two hundred and fourteen Stones : From 
William Chefelden, Efquire. p. 36. 
