The consequences of this extremely hot season were hæmorrhages from several parts of the body; the nose especially in men and children, and the uterus in women. Sudden and violent pains of the head, and vertigo, profuse sweats, great debility and oppression of the spirits, affected many. There were putrid fevers in great abundance; and a vast quantity of fluxes of the belly both bilious and bloody, with which the fevers also were commonly attended. These fevers were always ushered in by severe pains of the head, back, and stomach; vomitings of green and sometimes of black bile, with vast oppression of the _præcordia_, continual anxiety, and want of sleep. These were soon succeeded by _tremores tendinum_, _subsultus_, delirium, or stupor. The pulse was commonly very quick, but seldom tense or strong; was sometimes heavy and undose. The blood oftentimes florid, but loose; sometimes livid, very rarely sizy: in some however, at the very attack, it was pretty dense and florid. The tongue was generally foul, brown, and sometimes blackish; and towards the crisis often dry. The urine was commonly high coloured, and in small quantity; frequently turbid, and towards the end deposed a great deal of lateritious sediment. A vast number were seized with this fever, during, and soon after, the excessive heats; tho’ but few died in proportion. Long and great heats always very much exalt the acrimony of the bilious humours; of which we had this summer abundant instances. Bleeding early was generally beneficial; profuse, always hurtful, especially near the state of the fever. LXVIII. _An Account of the fossile Thigh-bone of a large Animal, dug up at_ Stonesfield, _near_ Woodstock, _in_ Oxfordshire. _In a Letter to Mr._ Peter Collinson, _F.R.S. from Mr._ Joshua Platt. [Read Feb. 2, 1758.] Dear Sir, ABOUT three years ago I sent you some _vertebræ_ of an enormous size, which were found in the slate-stone pit at Stonesfield, near Woodstock, in this county. [Illustration: _Philos. Trans. Vol. L._ TAB. XIX. _p. 525_. _J. Mynde sc._] I have lately been so lucky as to procure from the same place the thigh-bone of a large animal, which probably belonged to the same creature, or one of the same genus, with the _vertebræ_ above-mentioned. As the bone, and the stone, in which it is bedded, weigh no less than two hundred pounds, I have sent you a drawing of it (_See_ TAB. XIX.); from which, and the following short description, you may, I hope, form some idea of this wonderful fossile.