Royal Society, 41^-^ 
in pleuretic cales 5 his urine like that of perfbns in health : 
The Dr. did not know what was done to the patient the firft 
week, only that he was once blooded, had a glifier and a purge 
adminiftred to him, together with a large quantity o{ Laudanum^ 
but all to no purpole 5 at length the Dr. being lent for, as foon 
as he law the patient in the mifery abovementioned, he ordered 
to repeat bleeding to a pretty large quantity • next day the Dr. 
preibribed a gentle purge, and after giving the patient three 
or four ftools he coula walk upright, without any pain or 
convulfions 5 but the operation was no fooner over, than both 
thefe immediately returned and the patient alfb to his wont- 
ed pofture againft the bedflead ; yet the Dr. had fome hopes 
that repeating the purge might effect the cure, feeing the 
firil doie had given Ibme refpite^ the following day the 
Dr. gave him relin of jalap and Mercurius dukls, having fre- 
quently ufed this medicine with luccefs in the pain of the loins 5 
but it did not anfwer here, for the patient had not one flool, tho' 
the Dr. had added § ij Syr. e Spin, cervin. on which account he 
increafed the dole by adding every day alternately J iij and 5 iiij 
Syr. e Spin, cervin . at length by this means his belly was kept 
lax, the pain abated, and the convulfions did not return fo fre- 
quently as before ; the Dr. permitted him to drink as much whey 
as he plealed 5 and flnce the purge had wrought on the patient 
the Dr. could the more freely and the more fafely preicribe Lau- 
danum^ to procure reft to the fpirits agitated both by the difbrder 
and the phylic; thus at length, by repeating the purge eight or ten 
times, the pain was quite gone, the convulfions ceafed, and the 
patient was pretty well recovered : In the mean time, to prevent a 
rclaple, the Dr. applied medicines proper in nervous dilorders to 
invigorate the blood and fpirits 5 afterwards the Dr. faw this pa- 
tient frefla, lively, and able to work 5 the patient's legs fwelled as 
he recovered, but the tumour was loon difcufled by the applica- 
tion of the laft mentioned medicine. 
57;e T'ranfmutation of Copper into Brafs- hy Thomas Povcy, 
Efq-, Phil. Tranf N" 2.60. p. 474- 
CAlamine is dug out of certain mines, (of which there are fe- 
veral in the weft of England^ as about Mendip^ &C.3 which 
lie about 20 foot deep, as coals do ^ it is burnt or calcined in a 
kiln or oven made red hot, then ground to powder, and fifted to 
the finenefs of flour, then nuxt with ground charcoal, becaule the 
calamine is apt to be clammy and clod, and not fo apt to incor- 
porate 5 then they put about feven pounds of calamine into a 
melting' 
