VOL. v.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 5^ 



Some further Inquiries hy Dr. Tonge, concerning the Running of Sap 

 in Trees ; the heeping of such Sap, and brewing ivith it ; a JVay of 

 colouring of Leaves, Fruit, &c. As also about multiplying Crab- 

 stocks, and propagating Trees by Layers, ^c. N" 68, p. 2074. 

 Containing queries only, without answers or any information whatever. 



An Account of two Booh. N" 68, p. 2077- 

 I. Miscellanea Curiosa Medico-Physica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum. Lip- 

 siae, 1670, in 4to. 



This is a work very lately begun in Germany by a society of ingenious phi- 

 losophers, called Academia Naturae Curiosorum (an academy of curious inquirers 

 into nature) which some years ago established themselves in that country, with a 

 design chiefly to improve physic and natural philosophy. For which purpose 

 they have undertaken each of them to consider and write upon determinate 

 subjects, thereby to penetrate into the nature and qualities of particular bodies, 

 as of the vine, tobacco, aloe, scurvy-grass, wormwood, scorzonera, St. John's 

 wort, iron, brass, the unicorn, the stag, crabs, the blood-stone, eagle-stone, 

 musk, civet, amber, &c. Besides which they have attempted, in the manner 

 adopted in France, Italy, and England, to write and publish Ephemerides, or a 

 Journal, or Transactions of a Philosophical Nature, intending therein to pre- 

 sent the curious yearly with such medical, anatomical, botanical, pathological, 

 chirurgical, therapeutical, and chemical observations, as they shall by their cor- 

 respondence, either with the physicians and philosophers of their own body and 

 nation, or with those of other societies and countries, procure and digest. And 

 of this we have a specimen in the book of which an account is now to be given, 

 out of the copy which was sent by the learned Dr. Sacks, (a member of that 

 body) to the editor. In it are contained 160 observations and 19 plates, being 

 the sum of what they have collected for the first year, 1 670. 



1. A relation of snakes kept tame. 1. A memoir to prove that part of the 

 chyle is by the thoracic duct conveyed into the subclavian, and so into the cis- 

 tern of the breasts, whence by certain pipes it is carried into the glands or ker- 

 nels, there to be elaborated, either for the aliment of the breasts themselves, 

 or the food of foetuses.* 3. An observation of a polygonum cocciferum. 4. A de- 

 scription of an anti-pleuritic medicine made of the rinds of the longer sort of 

 Italian pumpions, boiled in very old oil of olives, and strained through a sieve. 

 5. A description of a remedy for an atrophy of the eye. 6. A narration of a 

 serpent petrified in the stomach of a stag. [A bezoar-stone having a serpentine 



* An anatomical error. See note at p. 526 of this volume of the Abridgement. 

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