a ventosity arising from indigestion, and discharging itself at the mouth with a very disagreeable noise.

RUBECK, OLAUS, a learned Swedish physician, was born of an ancient and noble family in 1630. He became professor of medicine at Upsal, where he acquired great applause by his extensive knowledge, and died in 1702. His principal works are twofold: 1. Exercitatio Anatomica, exhibens ductus novos hepaticos aquosos, et eam glandularum serosa, in 4to; 2. Atlantica, sive Manheim, vera Japhetii posterorum sedes ac patria, four vols. folio. He there endeavours to prove that Sweden was the country whence all the ancient Pagan divinities and our first parents were derived; and that the Germans, English, French, Danes, Greeks, and Romans, with all other nations, originally came from thence. This work, in a complete state, is of the greatest rarity.