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rubbing, ftinks fo rankly and fo like 

 Paracelfus's Zibetum Occidentah , 

 ( fiercus Humanum^) that one would 

 fwear it were held under his Nofe. 

 And fince I have been fpeaking of 

 good fents produced by unlikely 

 means, A^hall not pretermit this Ob- 

 fervation^ that, though generally the 

 fire imprefTes a ftrong oflfenfive fmell, 

 which Chymifts therefore call Em- 

 pyreumatical) upon the odorous bo- 

 dies that it works ftronglyon$ yet 

 the conftitution of a body may be 

 fuch 5 that the new Contexture that 

 is made of its parts, even by the vi- 

 olence of the fire) (ball be fit to af- 

 ford Effluviums rather agreeable to 

 the organs of imelling,than any way 

 offenfive. For I remember, that, ha- 

 ving for a certain purpofe diftilled 

 Saccharum Saturni in a Retort with a 

 ftrong fire, I then obtained, ( fqr I 

 dare not undertake for the like fuc- 

 cefs to every Experimenter,) befktes 

 a piercing and Empyreumatical Li- 

 quour that was driven over into the 

 Receiver, a good Lump of a Caput 

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