such: and that it is at least a safe medicine in all such cases, in which any practitioner of experience or judgment would ever think of giving it, is now certainly known. For my own part, I can safely declare, that in near ten years experience of it in Guy’s-Hospital, during which time I find I have given it, on different occasions, to above five hundred patients in that house only, I never, from the most accurate observation I could make, saw it do any harm, or bring on any bad symptom, even in cases where it did not succeed according to the intention for which it was ordered; and (which I have thought worth remarking) in chronical cases, even in those, where the bark hath been by many thought the most prejudicial, when, on the coming on of an intermittent fever, the bark hath been necessary to cure this secondary disease, the original distemper hath gone on, according to the best judgment I could form of it, exactly in the same manner, as it would have done had the bark never been given. LXXXII. _An Account of an Earthquake felt at_ Lingfield _in_ Surrey, _and_ Edenbridge _in_ Kent, _on the 24th of_ January 1758. _By_ James Burrow, _Esq., R. S. V. P._ [Read April 6, 1758.] IN the London Chronicle, Nº. 181, published on the 25th of February 1758, in page 185, is the following article: “We hear, that about two o’clock in the morning of the 24th of last month” (which was the month of January), “an Earthquake was felt in the parishes of Worthe, and East-Grinsted, in Sussex; Lingfield, in Surrey; and Edenbridge, in Kent; and other adjacent places: which alarmed several of the inhabitants very much; but no damage ensued.” Mr. Burrow, having some connection with these two last parishes of Lingfield and Edenbridge, immediately wrote to the Rev. Mr. Goodricke of Lingfield, to inquire into the truth of this report: and Mr. Goodricke’s answer confirmed the fact of its being felt there, and at other adjacent places; and added, “that it shook the beds and windows, and made the plates rattle; and went off with a noise, like a small gust of wind.” However, Mr. Burrow did not then judge it to be either regular or proper to trouble the Society with this account; because Mr. Goodricke only received it from hearsay and report, he himself happening to be absent from Lingfield at that time.