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WHerefore I will rather take 

 notice of its Operation up- 

 on Vegetables^ as bodies which cor- 

 rofive Menftruums have fcarcebeen 

 thought fit to diflblve and grow hot 

 with. To omit then Cherries., and 

 divers Fruits abounding in watery 

 juices, with which, perhaps on that 

 very account , Oyl of Vitriol will 

 grow hot 3 I (hall here take notice, 

 that for trial fake, having mixt a 

 convenient quantity of that Liquor 

 with Raifins of the Sun beaten in 

 a Mortar 5 the Raifins grew fo hot, 

 that, if I mifremember not^ the 

 Glafs that contain'd it had almoft 

 burnt my hand. 



Thefe kind of Heats may be alfo 

 produce! by the mixture of Oyl of 

 Vitriol with divers other Vegetable 

 Subltances 5 but, as far as I have ob- 

 ferved, fcarce fo eminently with any 

 dry body, as with the crumbs of 



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