An Account of One Edmund Melloon, Born at Port Leicester, in Ireland, Who Was of an Extraordinary Size. Communicated by Dr. William Musgrave, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and R. S.

VII. An Account of one Edmund Melloon, Born at Port Leicester, in Ireland, who was of an extraordinary Size. Communicated by Dr. William Musgrave, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and R. S. The Measures of some of the Parts of an Irish Man shewn at Oxford, was communicated to me by Dr. Plot, he was Seven Foot Six Inches high, his Finger Six Inches Three Fourths long, the Length of his Span Fourteen Inches, of his Cubit Two Foot Two Inches, of his Arm Three Foot Two Inches and an Half, from the Shoulder to the Crown of his Head Eleven and Three Fourths, his Name Edmund Melloon, he was Aged Nineteen Years, Anno 1684, and Born at Port Leicester in Meath, in Ireland. VIII. An Account of the Dissection of a Dog that had Mercury injected into one of the Jugulars. By Dr. Christoph Pitt. The Mercury was thrown out of the Blood into the Cavity of the Abdomen, as likewise some Appearance of it in the other Cavities of the Body. All the Glandules were very turgid, and full of Liquor, especially in the Ventricles of the Brain, and all round there was a great Quantity of Serum. This may be called a true Hyarocephalus. It being a chance Dog, and having no Notice of what had been done on him, I could not so well observe whether it would work on him by Salivation, whether it made