as occafion ferves; it is fupported by props, which are not here reprefented, as not being neceffary toward the understanding of the machine. points DD, on the top and bot 10 At the ୨ 12 8 13 14 tom, are hung in equal poife manner: While one pulls the ring E, the plank B descends with the lower bucket 1, which fills itself with water afterwards pulling the ring F, the plank C defcends, and the plank B afcends, while at the fame time the bucket 20, falling into the water, fills itfelf, and the bucket 1 discharges its water into the bucket 19; and, fo confequently, the ring E defcending, the bucket 1 is filled a fecond time with water, and the plank C, raifing itself, 15 F 5 pours the water out of the bucket zo into the bucket 2; and the bucket 19 into the bucket 3. All the buckets of the machine filling themselves after this manner; fo that there is always one plank takes in water with its bucket below, while the other throws it out of one of its buckets above. The four small croffes which are marked at the bottom of the figure, are the limits of the alternative movements of the planks marking the whole extent; that is to say, that the ballances never rife higher, nor fall lower, than from one cross to the other: and it is by this movement, that, the two planks drawing near one another, the buckets do fill themfelves, and difcharge their water from one into the other. As the novelty of this machine, and the great advantages which it is fuppofed the public may receive from it, attract, according to cuftom, the cenfure of the critics, as well as the applause of others, the author hath written a little book, wherein he proves, that it hath all effential perfections for the railing of water, as folidity, duration, the advantage of furnishing a great quantity of water, and raifing it to what height one pleaseth, fince there is only the weight of the water to be raised, without danger of any outward rubbing; which is wanting in pumps, chains without end, chappelets, and other usual inventions. Journal des Scavans. Obfer Obfervations in Phyfic, extracted from the Author of les Remedes de Maladies du Corps humain felon les Auteurs anciens & modernes, printed in 12mo, at Paris. IT T would be to little purpose to be acquainted with the diseases man's body is fubject to, if we were ignorant, in the mean while, of the remedies against them. It is this the author discourses of in this treatises. He fays, that the root of Anemone, being applied to women's breafts, produces great ftore of milk: that the root of wild Cucumber, applied to the joints, diffipates and diffolves the humours which the gout has drawn to those parts that Gentian is excellent against the bitings of fcorpions: that the Lilly of the Valley is a fovereign remedy against the beating of the heart; and Musk for its palpitations and fwoonings that the flesh of a Crayfish re duced to powder is fo cordial and alexiterial, that being taken with the root of Gentian, and other the like things, it refifts all forts of poisons, particularly that communicated by the biting of a mad dog: that the brains of a Hare, boiled or roasted, wonderfully ftrengthens the nerves: that the gall of a Weafel, mingled with the juice of Fennel, cures the cataracts of the eyes: that the flesh of the fame creature broiled or dried, and powdered, i taken to the quantity of two drachms, is a prefent and effectual remedy againft all poifons: and, laftly, the blood of it is fovereign against the falling-fickness. The Phyfic of the AMERICANS of VIRGINIA. HEY have admirable remeTH dies for all diftempers, drawn from plants, with which they do furprifing cures. judges it neceffary for draining the belly. See the cafe on the next page. 2. When they let blood, they pierce the skin with points of reeds, which ferve them for lances; and fuck the blood of the fick without fwallowing it this ferves them also instead of cupping-glaffes. 3. They cure dropfies after a particular manner: they take burning hot flints, and put them in a hole which they make in the earth, and sprinkling them with a decoction of three herbs, whereof one is Elula, they cause the fick to hold his belly close over those red-hot ftones. After that the patient has received the hot fteam against his belly, the navel opens itfelf, and the physician lets a fufficient quantity of water iffue forth, being as much as the patient can well bear; after which, to close the orifice, he applies on it a certain mofs, and reiterates this operation as often as he 4. They cure the hardness of the fpleen with a cataplafm composed of a root, which produces the effect of a veficatory, and draws a great deal of water. This comes very nigh the practice of the ancients, who applied actual cauteries on the spleen. 5. They have a plant of a wonderful virtue; fo that by chewing it, and rubbing their hands with it, they may handle all forts of serpents without being hurt. It is called in the language of the country Kifcachkonka, that is to fay, the death of ferpents. It has a relation to what is faid of the plant called Dictamnus Virginius, which is found in Virginia. With this plant pounded, and tied to the end of a ftick, they kill rattle-fnakes, fo they fmell it; the fmell making them die in half an hour after: and in all places where this plant grows, those snakes are not to be found. Journal des Scavans. A Cafe A Cafe extracted from the Medical Effays published by a Society at EDINBURGH. The Water of a Dropfy evacuated at the Navel; by Dr. Francis Pringle, latt Prefident of the College of Phyficians at Edinburgh. I Was defired, in June 1726, to vifit a woman betwixt 40 and 50 years old, who had laboured fome years under a Hydrops Afcites; and taken many medicines under the care of a physician and another phyfici. an and myself gave her the moft powerful diuretics, and hydragogue purgatives, without the leaft fuccefs; the bulk of her belly, which was very great at my firft vifit, rather increaseing fo that defpairing of relieving her by medicine, and the refufing to fubmit to the paracentefis, we gave over prefcribing for her. But, one day having taken a pretty brifk purgative, fhe told me that the waters ouzed out at her navel: which ouzing continued conftantly after; but was very flow and gentle; giving her no other uneafinefs than what was occafioned by wetting her linnen. In this state she remained all the winter with out her belly increafing; but her flesh and strength wafted. In May 1727, having gone to Leith in a coach, the orifices at the navel were fo dilated, in returning home, that the water gufhed out in a ftream, as if she had been tapped: so that it was with great difficulty fhe could be carried from the coach to her lodgings and the waters continued to flow fo plentifully, while I was fent for, that I was informed by the people about her, the had difcharged between 12 and 16 Scots pints of water; and I found her fo faint, her pulfe fo funk, and her looks fo ghaftly, that I found it abfolutely neceffary to put a stop to any farther discharge of water at that time, by proper compreffes and bandage; and then I ordered her to be laid in bed with her head low and her feet raised. She had but an indifferent night; yet fhe recovered her pulfe and fpirits. Next morning, when the wet dreffings were changed for clean ones, a copin more of water ran out; and that day fhe was feized with a fever, attended with violent and threatening fymptoms, fuch as vomiting, the hiccough, and afthma. The fever continued in this way for fome days; but at length fhe recovered entirely, and continued that summer, and most part of autumn, in a perfect state of health: her belly not being in the least swelled, and her flesh, strength, colour, and appetite being recovered. In the October following, the was feized fuddenly with a cholic, attended with a, violent vomiting, and an obftinate conftipation, which cut her off in a few days. But, upon opening her body, there was no water, nor any remarkable disorder found in the Abdomen, except that the Uterus was vaftly large, and fchirrous all over, with its coats greatly thickened, and weighing four pounds and a half. Qu. Whether this Cafe does not confirm the Virginian Method of curing the Dropfy; and point out a more natural, and, confequently, a fafer and more fure Way of treating that Diftemper, than the common Practice of Tapping? A Receipt to cure an AGUE. Ake of Nettle-feeds two ounces, of the flowers of the leffer Centaury half an ounce, falt of Wormwood TA two drachms, of White-wine a pint; let all infufe on hot embers for twelve hours. Make another infufion also for the the fame space, and in a warm place, with three ounces of Quinquina powdered, two drachms of Crystal mineral, and four ounces of the best Aqua vita. Then mix thofe two infufions; and, fetting them again on hot embers, let them digeft for at least fix hours; then strain them through an indifferent coarse cloth. The dofe is two ounces: it must be given first on the day of the fit, four or five hours before it comes give another dofe just as the cold fit feizes; give a third in the interval betwixt the cold fit and the hot. On the intermitting days following the fit, it may be given again mornings and evenings. The day of the fit returning again, you must do as directed the first day you upon the cure. In the mean time you must purge once, or oftener, according as you find the fulness of the habit of the body. fet A Remedy for the Nephritic Cholic. Take oil of sweet almonds, raddishwater ana 3ij. white-wine, water of pellitory of the wall, of each three ounces; fpirit of falt and of turpentine, of each four drops. Add to them the juice of an orange; and divide the whole into two dofes, to be taken three hours the one after the other; if the evil be not conquered at first, which happens for the most part. A Remedy of admirable Efficacy against the blind Hemorrnoids. In fix ounces of rofe-water, diffolve half an ounce of amylum; boil this mixture to the confiftency of glue; then add an ounce of the ointment of cerufe, half a drachm of faffron, and the whites of three new-laid eggs: let this compound be applied as a cataplafm; after three hours renew it. Note, That the use of this remedy is only against blind Hemorrhoids, or thofe that have left bleeding; the ufe of it being otherwife dan. gerous, by reafon of its aftriction, whilft they bleed. An eafy Help for decayed Sight. The inventor of this method was about 60 years of age, his fight was much decayed, and he feemed to obferve a thick fmoke or mist about him, and little black balls dancing in the air before his eyes; he could not diftinguish the faces of his acquaintance; nor men from women; nor keep the plain trodden road, unless he was led; glaffes afforded no relief, the fairest prints feemed, thro' spectacles, like blind prints. At last he fell upon the following expedient; he took spectacles of the largest circles; then, taking out the glaffes, he put black Spanish leather, taper-wife, into the empty circles, and, by applying his eye to the wider end, he could read the fmalleft print through the narrower extremity. These empty tubes were made of different lengths, and the fmaller ends of different bigneffes; only obferving, that the fmaller the remote orifice was, the fairer and clearer the smallest prints appeared; and the wider it was, the larger object it took in, and fo required the lefs motion of the hand and head in reading: fometimes he ufed one eye, fometimes another, and thus relieved them by turns; for the visual rays of both eyes cannot meet in reading, when thus divided by tubes of that length. The lighter the ftuff of which the tubes are made, the lefs cumberfome they prove; the infide is to be blackened with fomething that has no luftre or glittering; and they should be fo contrived as to be moveable, that they may be lengthened or fhortened, and the orifice made narrower or wider, as will be found most convenient. Probably, thefe tubes may be proper for thofe that are quinteyed, whofe eyes interfere; but, undoubtedly, they will yield great cafe to fuch as cannot well bear the light, and, perhaps, preferve the fight for a longer time. All the trouble is in ufing them for the first time; for afLI terwards, terwards, by a little practice, they become very eafy. Upon putting convex glaffes into the tubes, he found the prints, though fomewhat larger, yet not fo clear and diftinct, as when he ufed the empty ones he alfo found thofe leathern H tubes the beft, that were not faftened to the bone of the fpectacles; for as they hang in that flight manner, they may be raised or bent down with a touch of the finger, and divided or united to take in the fame object. me. The CHARACTER and PRAYER of PRINCE EUGENE. His CHARACTER. E was valiant without pride; victorious without cruelty; indefatigable without avarice; a friend without guile; a foe without revenge; a foldier without vice; a christian without bigotry; whose universal fame will bury churches, outlive time, and stand up with eternity *. His PRAYER. O my God! I believe in thee, do thou ftrengthen my belief; I hope in thee, do thou confirm my hope; I love thee, vouchfafe to redouble my love; I am forry for my fins, O increase my repentance; I adore thee as my first principle; I defire thee as my laft end; I thank thee as my perpetual benefactor; I call upon thee, as my fupreme defender. My God! be pleased to guide me by thy wifdom, rule me by thy juftice, comfort me by thy mercy, and keep me by thy power; to thee I dedicate all my thoughts, words, and actions; that henceforth I may think of thee, speak of thee, act according to thy will, and fuffer for thy fake; Lord, my will is fubject to thine in whatsoever thou willeft, because it is thy will. I beseech thee to enlighten my underftanding, to give bounds to my will, to purify my body, to fanctify my foul. Enable me, O my God! to expiate my paft offences, to conquer my future temptations, to reduce the pas fions that are too ftrong for me, and to practife the virtues that become O fill my heart with a tender remembrance of thy favours, an aver fion for my infirmities, a love for my neighbour, and a contempt for the world; let me alfo remember to be fubmiffive to my fuperiors, charitable to my enemies, faithful to my friends, and indulgent to my inferiors. O God! help me to overcome pleasure by mortification, covetousness by alms, anger by meeknefs, and lukewarmness by devotion. O my God! make me prudent in undertakings, courageous in dangers, patient under disappointments, and humble in fuccefs. Let me never forget, O Lord! to be fervent in prayer, temperate in food, exact in my employs, and conftant in my refolutions. Inspire me, O Lord! with a defire always to have a quiet confcience, an outward modefty, as well as inward, an edifying converfa. tion, and a regular conduct; let me always apply myself to refift nature, to affift grace, to keep thy commands, and deferve to be faved. My God! do thou convince me of the meanness of the earth, the greatnefs of heaven, the shortnefs of time, and the length of eternity. Grant that I may be prepared for death, that I may fear thy judgment, avoid hell, and obtain paradife, for the fake and merits of my Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen. B*. *There is no action of Alexander's more heroic than his Highness's attempt on Cremona : nor is there any paffage in the life of Cæfar more noble, or more furprizing, than his march through Italy for the relief of Turin. And his piety was as confpicuous as his valour: fo that if a finking empire had not demanded him for a faviour, we might have admired him as a faint whom we celebrate as a foldier, The |