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were well confiderd,there might, befides the farther improving of Bach: 
-ing and Syringing into the veins, be thought on feveral ways, whereby 
feveral obitinate diftempers of a humane body;fach as the Gout Gat 
Stone, ec, might be maiter'd, and expell’d3 and good men inight make 
_asgood a‘ufe of it, as evil men have made a perverfe and Niabolical..... 
_ And thatthe filling ofthe pores of the fkin with fome fluid uchicle, ig 
of nofmall cihicacy towards the preparing a paflage for fevetal-kinds.of 
penetrant juices, and other ditioluble bodies, .te-infinuate themfelyes 
withinthe ikin, and into the fenfitive partsof the beady, maybe, think, 
‘provid by an Inftance given us by Be4omius, inthe, 26. Chapter of the 
ecbnd Beok of his Obfrwations » which containing a very remarkable 
StoryT have. here tranicrib'd: Cum Chameleonis. nigri redicesfays he) 
apud Pagum quendam Livadochorio nuncupatum erni curaremns, plevini 
Grect & Turce fpedatum venerunt quid éruerenius, eas vero feuftulatin fe- 
cabamus,& filo trajictebamus ut facalivs exficeari poffent, Turce in co ner 
gotio occupatos nos videntes, fimiliter eas radices.trattare & fecare: volue- 
runt: at cum fummus chet efius,, &» omnes fudoré madevent, gnicungme 
eat radicen: nanibus tractaverant lidoremane abfterferant, aut facien dit 
Sitis fealpferant, tantam pruviginent its locis quos attigerant poftea fenferunt, 
ut aduri viderentur. Chamelconis enim nigri radix ea virtute pollet. ut eur 
tt applicata ipfam adeo inflammet, ut nec fquilla, nec urtica ullé centefmnd 
partetta adurent ; At prurige non’ adeoceleriter fefe prodit. Poft unane aut al: 
teram porro horam, linguli variis favies locis cutem adeo inflamuatans har 
bere capimns ut tota fanguinea videretur, atque quo wtagis eam confricabas 
mus tanto magis excttabatur prurigo. Fonts alfid pei latano,atgue inis 
tto pro lndicro habebamus & ridebamus: attandem ili plurimum indignati 
Sunt, & nif affeverafemuys nunquam expertos tali virtute cam plantam palere, 
band dubie, male nos multoffent. Attamen noftra exeufatio fuit ab illis farilix 
us accepta,cum coden: incommiodo nos affetlos confpicerent. Atirum fane quod 
intantillo radice tam ingentem efficaciam noftro vtalo experti fumus, 
- By which obfervation ofhis,iticems maniteft,that their being all coyerd | 
with fweat who gather'd and cut this root of the black Chameleon Thiflle, | 
___ Wasthe great reafon why'they fuffer'd that inconvenience, for it feems the 
___ likecircumftance had not been before thatinoted, nor do I find any men- 
__ Homoffucha property belonging’to this Vegetable in any of the Her~ 
bals Thave.at prefent by pitas) os is : rx 
I could give very many Obfervations which I have made of this kind, 
wherebyJ have found that the beft way.to get a body to be infinuated 
into the fub{tance or infenfible.pores. of another,, is firft, to finda fluid 
vebicle that has fome congruity;both to the body te be infinuated,and to 
the body into whofe pores you would-have the-other convey d. And in 
this Principle lies the great myftery of {taining feveral forts of bodies, as 
Marble, Woods, Bones, éc. and of Sr are Cloaths, Wools, Fea- 
thers}@+e, But thefe being digreflions, Ifball proceed to: 
- Oblerv. XXV I. OfCowage,and the itching operation of fome bodies. 
T Here isa certain Down of 3 Plant,brought from these dierseal'd 
See monly, though very maiproperly, Chv eet, SEY ee itake 
