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zoar as poflefling the fame virtues. But neither 

 the Greeks, Latins, nor Arabians, give any pre- 

 cife information concerning the animals by which 

 it is produced. Rabi Mofes, the Egyptian, only 

 re arks, that fome people pretend that this ftone 

 is formed in the angle or the eye, and others in 

 the gall bladder of the eaftern wedders. Now, 

 bezoars, or concretions, are actually formed in 

 the angles of the eyes, and in the pits below 

 the eyes of ftags and fome other animals. But 

 theie concretions are very different from the 

 oriental bezoar ; and all the concretions in the 

 gall-bladder confift of a light, oily, and inflam- 

 mable matter, which has no relemblance to the 

 fubitance of the bezoar. Andreas Lacuna, a 

 Spanilh phyiician, in his commentaries on D10- 

 fcorides, remarks, that the oriental bezodr is 

 extracted from a certain fpecies of wild goat, in 

 the mountains of Perfia. Amatus Luiitanus 

 repeats Lacuna's remark ; and adds, that this 

 mountain goat refembles the (lag. Monard, 

 who quotes all the three, affures us in a more 

 pofitive manner, that this ftone is derived from 

 the internal parts of a mountain goat in India, 

 to which, fays he, I may give the appellation of 

 ccrvi-capra; becaule it partakes both of the frag 

 and the goat, is nearly of the fize and figure of 

 the Mag, and, like the goat, has fimple horns, 

 very much bended backward *. Garcias ab. 

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* Lapis Bezaar varias habet appellationes ; nam Arabibus 

 lloger dicitui-j Perfis Bdzaar, Iadis Bezar. . . Ifte lapis in in-i 



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