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Size of a large Nutmeg 5 and, being felt by the Fin- 
ger, was hard. 
About a Fortnight before the Difcharge, fome 
white Specks appeared > upon which it was fuppofed 
that Matter was gathering } and being ftill hard, a 
common Poultice of white Bread and Milk was ap- 
plied, and then it prefently diflodged itfelf, without 
any Application, and left the Patient ever fince free 
from Complaint. 
I was obliged to the Rev. Mr. Chauncy , the Hus- 
band of the Patient, for this Account. 
III. An Account of Glades of a new Con - 
trivance , for prefer ving Pieces of Anatomy 
or Natural Hiftory in fpirituous JLiquors % 
by Claud. Nic. le Cat. M. D. P. R. S. 
Royal Demonftrator in Anatomy a?id Sur- 
gery at Roan. 
Tranjlated from the French by T. S. M.T). F. R . S. 
Read jia. 19.' | ’HOSE who have Collections of 
*748. ^ Anatomy, or Natural H.ftory, and 
preferve Animals, Vegetables, or any of their Parts, 
in fpirituous Liquors, are fenfible how expenfive it 
is to fupply the VVafte of thefe Spirits, which eva- 
porate confiderably. 
Having in 1739. begun to make a Collection of 
this fort, it was uot long before I felt the Necefiity 
1 was -under of contriving fome kind of Veflcl, or 
fome way of doling the common Glafics, which 
might prevent, or at lead diminifh the Quantity of, 
this Evaporation. After 
