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EXPERIMENTS 
- IN ; 
CONSORT 
O.F THE 
LUCTATION 
Ariling from the Affufion of feveral 
MENSTRUUMS 
Upon all forts of 
BODIES, 
Exhibited to the Royal Society, April 13. and 
June 1. 1676. 
> H E intent of the following Experiments is two- 
fold. The one, to be as a Demonttration of the 
Truth of one, amongft other Propolitions, laid 
down in the precedent Difcourfe of Mixture, fe. 
That it would be a Key to let us eafily into the 
knowledge of the Nature of Bodies. 
The other, and that confequently, To be as a 
Specimen of a Natural Hiftory of the Materia 
y Medica : that is to fay, a multifarions Scrutiny 
into the intrinfick Properties of all thofe Materials, which have been, or 
may be nfèd in Medicine: for the performance whereof, the following 
Method is exibited as one, amongfi others, neceffary to be infited upon. 
For what Dominion a Prince hath over the Moral, that a Phylician hath, 
as one of God Almighty's Vice-Roys, over the Corporeal World. Whom 
therefore nothing can more import, than a particular knowledge of the Ge- 
nius of all his Subjects, thofe feveral Tribes of Matter, juppojed to be 
under his Command. 
Ch.5Infi.s 
There 
