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severely represented; but whatever they were, that that ought not to rob him 

 ■of the praise due to his knowledge. Again, that being provoked by a crowd 

 of enemies, he had indulged too far in that human imperfection, which is in- 

 clined to retaliate with recriminations ; yet that he had not been a magician in 

 the worse sense ; of which crime the learned Naudaeus also had upon good 

 grounds acquitted him. Moreover, that though his servant Oporinus, gained 

 by his master's adversaries, had virulently inveighed against him ; yet may there 

 be gathered out of that Oporinus's epistle more matter of praise for Paracelsus^ 

 than all his enemies together have deserved ; forasmuch as it is there said, Fuisse 

 in Paracelso mirabilem faciendi medicinam in omni morborum genere prompti- 

 tudinem et felicitatem. — In curandis ulceribus, etiam deploratissimis, miracula 

 eum edidisse, nulld victus praescript^ aut observatd ratione. — Laudano suo itk 

 gloriatum fuisse, ut affirmare non dubitarit, ejus soli us usu se e mortuis vivos 

 reddere posse, idque aliquoties, dum ille (Oporinus) apud ipsum fuit, declarasse ! 



Mentioning Paracelsus's skill in making the grand elixir, as they call it, our 

 author recites a narration made in his hearing by the Count of Windishgratz, 

 the Emperor's ambassador at the Danish court, concerning a person that was 

 possessor of that great arcanum. — In this narration it is stated, that a certain 

 monk, who resided at Vienna, in the Emperor's palace, was in possession of a 

 purplish-red powder, by means of which he could transmute the baser metals 

 into pure gold; and that being dangerously ill of a fever, he was questioned by 

 the physician who attended him concerning this matter, and confessed " ex in- 

 diciis quibusdam se inductum, ut latentem alicubi quem olim Paracelsus se- 

 posuerat, lapidem philosophicum fodiendo investigaret, quaesivisse sollicite, et 

 reperisse !" 



II. The Garden of Eden, or an Account of the Culture of Flowers and 

 Fruits now growing in England; with particular Rules how to advance their 

 Nature and Growth, as well in Seeds and Herbs, as in ordering of Trees 

 and Shrubs: in two parts, in 8vo, written by Sir Hugh Piatt, Knt. newly re- 

 printed. 



This title sufficiently explains the nature and contents of the book. 



On a Storm and some Lakes in Scotland. By Sir George Machen^y, Communis 



cated by Mr. James Gregory. N'' 114, p. 30/. 



The wind here, at Tarbut, Dec. 21, 1674, was extraordinary: it broke a 



standard-stone, that stood as an obelisk, about 1 2 feet high, 5 broad, and nearly 



2 feet in thickness. Whole woods were overturned, being torn up from the 



doctrines of the ancients, and showed, (as indeed Basil Valentine also did,) the possibility of curing 

 diseases by a shorter and more vigorous method, viz. by the employment of antimonialsj mer- 

 curials, and other chemical preparations. 



