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for that purpofe^ but overlookt and 

 defpis'd thofe undefign'd ones that 

 occurred to thecn whilft they were 

 profecuting a preparation of a Me- 

 dicine, or' a Tranfmutation of Me- 

 tals. The fenfe I had of this too ge- 

 neral omiffion of the Chymifts, tem- 

 pted me fometimes to try, whether 

 I could do any thing towards the re- 

 pairing of it by handling Chymiftry* 

 not as a Phyfician, or an Alchymift, 

 but as a meer Naturalift, and fo by 

 applyipg Chymical Operations to 

 Philofophical purpofes. And in 

 purfuance of thefe thoughts , I re- 

 member I drew up a Scheme of what 

 I ventured to call a Chymit Philofo- 

 phica, not out of any affe&ation of 

 a fplendid Tide, but to intimate, 

 that the Chymical Operations, there 

 treated of, were not directed to the 

 ufual (copes of Phyficians, or Tranf- 

 muters of Metals , but partly to il- 

 luftrate or confirm fome Philofophi- 

 cal Theories by fuch Operations 5 

 and partly to explicate thofe Opera- 

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