Transcriber's Note
Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired.The Errata of the original edition have been corrected.Otherchanges made can be found at the end of the book.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, GIVING SOME ACCOUNTOF THE Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, OF THE INGENIOUS,IN MANY Considerable Parts of the WORLD.
PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS,
GIVING SOME
ACCOUNT
OF THE
Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours,
OF THE
INGENIOUS,
IN MANY
Considerable Parts of the WORLD.
VOL. L. Part I. For the Year 1757.
LONDON.
Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers,
Printers to the Royal Society,
against Gray's-Inn Gate, in Holbourn.
M.DCC.LVIII.
THE
CONTENTS
TO
Part I. Volume L.
| I. | AN Account of the Earthquake felt in New England, and the neighbouring Parts of America, on the 18th of November 1755. In a Letter to Tho. Birch, D.D. Secret. R.S. by Mr. Professor Winthrop, of Cambridge in New England. | Page 1. |
| II. | The strange Effects of some effervescent Mixtures; in a Letter from Dr. James Mounsey, Physician of the Russian Army, and F.R.S. to Mr. Henry Baker, F.R.S. Communicated by Mr. Baker. | p. 19. |
| III. | Extract of a Letter of J. Wall, M.D. to the Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean of Exeter, and F.R.S. concerning the good Effects of Malverne Waters in Worcestershire. | p. 23. |
| IV. | An Account of the Carlsbad Mineral Waters in Bohemia: In a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield, President of the R.S. by the Rev. Jeremiah Milles, D.D. F.R.S. | p. 25. |
| V. | An Essay towards ascertaining the specific Gravity of living Men. By Mr. John Robertson, F.R.S. | p. 30. |
| VI. | An Instance of the Gut Ileum, cut thro' by a Knife, successfully treated by Mr. Peter Travers, Surgeon, at Lisbon. Communicated by John Huxham, M.D. F.R.S. | p. 35. |