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natural light it appears, that mankind had a beginning, and that the successive 

 generations of men were in their original ex non genitis. III. That those great 

 philosophers who asserted this origin of mankind ex non genitis, both ancient 

 and modern, and rendered it by hypotheses different from that of Moses, were 

 mistaken. Here the several hypotheses of Plato, Aristotle, Empedocles, Epi- 

 curus, Avicon, Cardan, Caesalpinus, Beregardus, and others, are examined. 

 IV. That the Mosaical system, as well of the creation of men as of the world 

 in general, abstractedly considered, without relation to the divine inspiration 

 of the writer, is highly consonant to reason, and on a bare rational account 

 highly preferable to the sentiments of those philosophers, who either thought 

 mankind eternal, or substituted hypotheses of his first production different from 

 the Mosaical. 



II. Tractatus Medicus de Morbis Castrensibus Internis, Auth. Joh. Valentino 

 Willio, Medico Regio Castrense. Haf. 1676, in 4to. 



A treatise on camp diseases, superseded by modern publications on the same 

 subject. 



III. Hebdomas Observationum de Rebus Sinicis. Auth. Andraea Mullero, 

 GreifFenhagio. Colon. Branden. A. 1674. 



This tract contains, 1 . An epitome of the history of China, both of the most 

 ancient and the most modern. 2. A conjecture that the true religion and know- 

 ledge of God has been known in China. 3. A list of the kings of China. 4. A 

 representation of the famous Chinese herb, called Gniseng. 5. A memorable 

 conjunction of the planets in the time of Noah's flood. 6. A specimen of a 

 geographical commentary on Paulus Venetus's Oriental history. 7. Of the 

 weekly distribution of days, and their denomination taken from the planets, being 

 used among the Chinese themselves. 



IV. The Curious Distillatory, &c. written originally in Latin by Joh. Sigisin. 

 Elsholt, and translated by T. S., M.D. Physician in ordinary to his Majesty. 

 Lond. 1677, in 12mo. 



The author of this tract treats on the art of distilling coloured liquors, spirits, 

 oils, &c. from vegetables, animals, and minerals; in the doing of which he in- 

 termixes many experiments easy to perform, yet curious and useful, relating to 

 the production of colours, of consistence and heat, in divers bodies that are 

 colourless, fluid, and cold ; and particularly several experiments on the blood of 

 diseased persons, and its serum. 



V. Medicina Statica, or Rules of Health, originally written by Sanctorius,* 

 now translated by J. D. Lond. 1676. in 12mo. 



* Sanctorius Sanctorius, who acquired so much celebrity by the treatise above-mentioned, was 

 born at Capo d'Istria, and studied at Padua } where he afterwards obtained a medical professorship. 



