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ccive may be of great ufe in fome 

 Medicinal Preparations, though I 

 think it not fit to particularize them 

 in this place : Where my chief in- 

 tent was, to mention the Phaenome- 

 non it felf, and invite you to con- 

 sider, whether it may beafcribe;d to 

 this, that by the reiterated a&ion of 

 the fire, and grinding together of the 

 body to be raifed, either the corpu- 

 fcles of the Sal Armonjac, or thofe 

 of the other body, may have thofe 

 little hooked or equivalent particles, 

 whereby they take hold of one an- 

 other, broken or worn off 5 and whe* 

 ther the indifpofednefs of the Colco- 

 tharine or Antimonial parts to afcend, 

 may not in fome cafes be promoted 

 by their having, by frequent attriti- 

 ons, fo fmoothed their Surfaces that 

 divers of them may clofely adhere, 

 like pieces of poliftied Glafs, and fo 

 make up Clutters too unweildy to 

 be fo raifed, as thefinglecorpufcles 

 they confift of, were* Which change 

 may difpofe them to be at oftce lefs 

 Volatil and more Fufible, Which 



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