PHYSIOLOGICAL REMAINS. 



There are some springs of water, wherein if you 

 put wood, it will turn into the nature of stone : so 

 as that within the water shall be stone, and that 

 ahove the water continue wood. 



The slime about the reins and bladder in man s 

 body, turns into stone : and stone is likewise found 

 often in the gall ; and sometimes, though rarely, in 

 &quot; vena porta.&quot; 



Query, what time the substance of earth in quar 

 ries asketh to be turned into stone ? 



Water, as it seems, turneth into crystal, as is 

 seen in divers caves, where the crystal hangs &quot; in 

 stillicidiis.&quot; 



Try wood, or the stalk of herbs, buried in quick 

 silver, whether it will not grow hard and stony. 



They speak of a stone ingendered in a toad s 

 head. 



There was a gentleman, digging in his moat, 

 found an egg turned into stone, the white and the 

 yolk keeping their colour, and the shell glistering 

 like a stone cut with corners. 



Try some things put into the bottom of a well ; 

 as wood, or some soft substance : but let it not 

 touch the water, because it may not putrify. 



They speak, that the white of an egg, with lying 

 long in the sun, will turn stone. 



Mud in water turns into shells of fishes, as in 

 horse-mussels, in fresh ponds, old and overgrown. 

 And the substance is a wondrous fine substance, light 

 and shining. 



