6 14 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS. ' [aNNO \6Q3-4. 



Genoa. In the 4th observation, he discourses of the iron rings made of the 

 nail (taken out of a stone-horse's near foot before) by hammering only, with- 

 out fire, as good for the cramp and giddiness, worn on the ring-finger, &c. 

 The 5th observation contains a catalogue of natural effects usually attributed to 

 sympathy. The 6th observation treats of a succedaneum for crabs'-eyes, &c. The 

 7th observation is of several rare plants, &c. The 8th observation describes a 

 certain smoking liquor made of mercury and tin. The gth, discourses of yel- 

 low and black amber, found in divers places of Italy. The 10th observation is 

 of the bed of a certain insect, found in the midst of an oyster-shell in Mount 

 Marius. The 11th observation is of several animalcules found in little shelly 

 tubes. The 12th treats of the virtues of several plants for divers diseases of 

 beasts. The 1 3th is of a certain man that after his wife's death suckled his 

 child at his own breasts, in l633, which he confirms by a credible testimony. 

 The 14th observation gives an account of the several museums or repositories 

 of curiosities to be seen in Italy. The 1 5th observation discovers the author's 

 method of preparing the Bononian stone or phosphorus ; to which is subjoined 

 a curious observation communicated to him by Joh. BaptistaMartelii, concern- 

 ing human urine. The l6th observation enumerates several earthy concretes, 

 good for absorbing and correcting acids. The 17th observation defends the 

 harmless use of antimony, much esteeming the panacaea made of crude anti- 

 mony with fixed nitre, described by Fr. Lana, in his Prodromus. The 18th 

 observation discovers the wonderful texture of the root of the perfoliata alpina 

 latif. min. Bauhini, niade up of many membranes curiously complicated to- 

 gether. The IQth observation is concerning a spring, called Pliny's, and the 

 river by the inhabitants now named Torbidone; which fountain in April, 

 An. l680, in a quarter of an hour rose 3 inches perpendicular, and sunk down 

 again in half an hour's time, repeating this flood and ebb alternately every two 

 hours ; which phenomenon was observed not two days, as is usually there 

 thought, but only a few hours before a shower of rain. In the 20th observa- 

 tion he shows that the musky smell coming from some pismires and flies of 

 Pisa, proceeds only from sulphureous particles mixed with a volatile salt in the 

 dung of those little animals. In the 21st he gives 4 reasons why some plants 

 are green all the year. The 22d observation describes a peculiar sort of insects, 

 which he found on the leaves of the myrtus tarentina at Rome, An. 1678; 

 they were of a grey colour, and a convex figure, like the 4- of a hemp seed, and 

 by the microscope showed scaly or plaited like the millipedes ; being rubbed and 

 bruised on a paper, they gave it a curious purple colour ; whence he conjectures 

 they are akin to the cochineal insect. In the 23d observation he adds some- 

 other reasons of the continual greenness of some plants, which, though de- 

 fended with but a thin skin, yet resist the cold of the winter. In the 24th ob- 



