300 The Statural Hijlory 



of time, immediatly follow. The Honorable and Ingenious Ro* 

 bert Dudley Efq; formerly of Chrifi Church aforementioned, titu- 

 lar Duke of Northumberland, was the firft Inventor of the Pulvis 

 Cornacbinut, being a mixture of Diagridium, Tartar, and Diapho- 

 retic Antimony, with cream of Tartar, the proportions varying /ro 

 re nata q ; a Medicine of fuch general and excellent ufe, that Mpr- 

 cui Cornachinut (from whom it has its name) wrot a whole Trea- 

 tife concerning it,commending it to the World as highly ufeful in 

 all Difeafes whatever, requiring Purgation. 



212. Nor doubt I in the leaft, notwithstanding the pretenfions 

 of the famous Thomas Bartholin, and Olaus Rudbeck, but that the 

 ingenious Mr. JoIHffof th\sV niverftty, firft of Wadham, and af- 

 ter of Pembroke College, was the firft Inventor of that fourth fort 

 of Vejjels, plainly differing from the Veins, Arteries, and Nerves, 

 now commonly called the Lympheducls: That he knew them about 

 the beginning of June, An. 1652. we have the teftimony of the 

 learned and famous Dr. Gliffon, to whom he difcovered them, 

 coming to Cambridge to take his Doclors degree r ;at what time,fays 

 the Learned Dr. Walter Charleton, 'tis plain from Bartholins own 

 Book fet forth in May, 1653. tnat ne fcarce ever dreamt of them \ 



213. Yet 1 know the Learned Bartbolin, amongft his Anatomi- 

 cal Hi/lories, tells us he firft found them the 15 th of Decemb. 1651. 

 and again, the 9 th of January, and 28 of Febr. 1652'. and that 

 the Learned Qlam Rudbeckhys, He firft difcovered them in Octo- 

 ber and November, 16 $0 u . both anticipating the date of Dr. Glif- 

 fon. But I have been frequently told by my worthy and learned 

 Friend, Dr. Robert Stately, an eminent Phyfitian, and one of un- 

 queftionable fidelity, Contemporary with Mr. Jollijf'&t Pembroke 

 College till Oxford was made a Garrifon for the 7fi/2g,about the Year 

 1642. that they were often (hewn to him by the fame Mr. Jolliff 

 while they were Students there. To which add the Teftimony of 

 the fore-cited Dr. Charleton } thzttheCe Vejjelswere known & com- 

 monly talked of amongft the Fellows and Candidats of the Famous 

 College of Pbyfitians in London, many years before they heard any 

 news of them from beyond Sea w . Not to mention that Dr. Higb- 

 more teems to have noted fomthing of them, though veiled under 

 a different name and defcription. 



1 Vid. ]o Schroderi Pharmicop. Medico-Chym. lib. z. cap. 77. r Fran.Gliflonii zAnatom. Hepatis, 

 cap. 31. Gualt. Charletoni OEconom. Animal. Exercit . 9. ' Tho. Bartholini Hiftoriar. Anatom. Rar. 

 Cent. 2 . Hifi. 48 . u Rudbeckii EpiR. ad Bartholin, dc Vafis Serofit,p. U w Idem loco citato. Vid. etiam E- 

 //fl.Timoch. Clark, M.V. Philofoph. Tranfaft. Numb. 35. 



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