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3, The Weight of this Stone in Air is 7 Gf. in Water 3^; and there*forehsSpecifick Weight compartd wich Water, is as 19z l to 1000.

LXX 1 V. Mr. Robert Bacon of Wtndfor, above 75- Years OU 3 , Sanguine <ASmnetnth'and Cheartull in his Natural Timper, ab -ut li Ytars before his Dea'h was ^'s,/ ej™’.observ’d by his Fricnds, at bis returnhome from Wallung, to bend double King/ ,85'to.his Right-siie, insomuch that I.e would be rcady to fall, and has been* 1 ' ia8,brought hörne in Coaches and Sedans, yet was always Temperate, and ne-ver obscrv'd to be Diforder’d wiih Drink in his Life. He would often säy,

That he fear’d Fatuity or Dillraction, and would Pray ihat God would keephim in his right Mind. In his lauer Years, his Appetite to all sbrts öfFood inchn’d to Canine , and his Thirst very great; He ölten compiain’d ofPain in his 60weh; He was always dtfirous 10 have his Head rubb'd manytimes in the Day; His Urine and Excrement came away always involuntary, aCBcd, Board, &c. ot which hedid not Fern at all to be sensible. Of late hewould always Hang down bis Head in a Prone Sleeping Posture, and hisHead was very Hot; he did Sweat very much every Night, and wer hisLinnen cxtraordinarily. And in the whole, his Rational Facultits seem’d to-be quite lost, for a great whilt before he dy’d ; for he would usually take upTongs, Fire-Shovel, Brooms ("many times all together,) to walk by, theughhe had a Staff of his own ; he would also hale the Chairs about the Houseand up theStairs, and grasp at any (hing with his Handsj he would oftenTumble on the Ground, and seldom Rife withour help; he did radier Creepalong by Walls and Chairs than go, tho’ formerly he wtnt very upright;of late it was i or 3 Folks work to support him to his Bed ; he would puta er 3 Hats at a time upon his Head, like an Antick j he would many timesstrike those that attendedhim. HeDy’dof aFever Nov. 4. 1686.

Upon Dissection, we found the Li-ver indifferently well Colour’d andFirm; The Spleen Jhrivell’d; The Omentum whole but ill Colour'd ; TheRight Kidney Sound, with a few small Storni ; The Lest Kidney t wo parts ofthree wasted, and fome coursc Gravel, but both Kidneys very Fat • TheBladder of Gall fill’d with one Stone only, and that no bigger than a longNutmeg; fome little course Gravel and sinall St one s in the Bladder ofUrine ; The Langt well enough, only by the Stagnation of Blood discolour’d,and fill’d in feveral places with Ichorous Spumy Matter ; The Pericardiumvery Thin and too Tender, and too little Water in it ; Very l.ttle Blood in theVentndes of the Heart ; The stünde s of his Heart perfectly sourd and slrong,as of any Sound Man of 20 Years Old; Those and the Strcngth of theMuseies of the Heart I admir’d.

The Dura Mater was extremely Hard, Thin., and White, a slender Im-broydery of Veffels; The Via Mater all füll ofseeming Turgid Glandi, and agreat Distention of Lympbadutls füll of Coagulated Lympha ; The Sub-sta nee of the Bratn Loose and Shrunk, very White, very little ot the Ciner't-tious Colour to be seen; The Corpus Callosum very Flaccid ; The wholeBody of the Brain was Shrunk about a zd part: Between the 2 Meningei ofthe Bratn, was near a Pint of extravafated Serum, that rr.ust ueeds oppress

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