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1:0 refemble a Perfon greatly hypochondriac. I ttill con- 
tinu’d to him the Camphire^ and the other alterative 
Medicines^ for fome Time, but in a much fmaller Dofe 
than what I gave him in his lllnefs : ,So in Nine Weeks 
he was perfedly cur’d, and continues in good Health. 
This, Sir, is the Subftance of what I remember of 
the preceding Cafe, wherein I lay’d the whole Strefs of 
the Cure on Camphire. 
I am^ 6cc. 
V. A Method for determining the Geographical Lon- - 
gitude of f^lacesy from the Appearance of the 
common Meteors, called Falling Stars, propofed 
hy George Lynn, Efq-, of Souchwick, Nor- 
thampcon-fliire, in a Letter to Dr. Jurin, 
R, S. 3 c Coll. Med. Soc. 
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U Pon perufing, lately, the Account which the very 
ingenious Dr. Halley h?is given in theTranfa^L 
ons^ N°* 360, of that extraordinary Meteor which ap- 
pear’d all over England, 19^’^ of March, I ob- 
ferve One very great Ufe he fuggefls might be made of 
thofe momentaneous Ehoenomena, in determining the 
Geographical Longitude of Places, if we could but 
have the leafl Notice of their appearing, 
I cannot but think, that fome other Meteors which 
are very frequent, tho’ little taken Notice of, might 
ferve very well for the fame Purpofe. I mean thofe * 
which are vulgarly call’d /hooting, or falling/iemg 
a Sort of natural Sky-rockets difcharg’d at a very great 
A a a Height, 
