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obiit. Fœminam adhuc viventem vidit non tantum, & hac figura ad vivum depingere curavit, sed ipsam Plicam post obitum resectam secum Wittebergam attulit Clariss. D. Flouricke dicti Principis Medicus. Erat autem Plica (quatuor ulnas longa, palmum lata, duosque pollices crassa, sed altero tanto longior foret, ipso referente, nisi magna ejus pars, temporis quo ægra decubuit diuturnitate, squalore & attritu consumpta fuisset. Hunc ergo Casum penitus extraordinarium, illustrissimæ Societati Regali exponere volui. Spero autem fore, ut imposterum de circumstantiis singularibus hujus casus a laudato Viro certior reddar, quas alio tempore communicabo.

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VIII. An Extract of a Letter from Sir Conrad Sprengell, M.D.R.S.S. & Coll. Med. Lond. Licen. to Dr. Mortimer; wherein be inclosed the foregoing Account of the Plica Polonica; together with an Article from the Breslaw Sammlung von Natur- und Medicin, &c. Geschichten upon the same Subject, translated from the High-Dutch by Dr. Mortimer, R. S. Secr.

SIR, January 20th, 1730/1.

* * *THE Plica has been always related, and thought to be a Distemper, and to proceed from a Fever or Convulsions; but for my Part, from the best Information I could get concerning it, Ithink