763. 
Solitary 5 
| touching 
| Clarification, 
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| 769. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Plants with- 
ows Leaves. 
770: 
Experiment 
jSolitary, 
touching the: 
Materiaes of 
Gla, 
F7 Te 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Prohibition of 
Putrefattiou, 
and the long 
Confervatiun 
of Bodies. 
| part of ir iffue into the Body adjacent; and therefore ic 
| Expersment | 
' Balms, ( whereof we now fpeak) in Wax, in 
(ae “es 
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Natural Hiftory ; 
for that the Aur is of it felt thin and thirity, and as foon as cver It Be teeth 
any moifture from the Water, itimbibeth, and d flipateth it in the whole 
Body of the Air, and fuffercth ie nor to romain in Vapor, whereby it migh 
| breed Rain. * 
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T hath been touched in the Title of Pcrlocations, (namely, fach as are in 4 
wards) thatthe Whitesof Eggs and Miik do claritie; and it is certain, | 
) chat in Egypt they prepare and clarific the Warer of Wile, by putting it ia . 
great Jars of Stonc, and ftirring itabour with afew ftamped Almond:, where. 
with they alfo befmear the Mouth of the Veffel; and fo draw it off, after it 
hath refted fometime. It were good torry this Clarifying with Almonds in| 
new Beeror Mutt, to haften and perfcét the Clarifying. | e . 
Here be fcarce to be found any Vegetables that have Branches and no 
Leaves, except you allow Coral for cne. Bucthere is alfo in the Defarts | 
of S. Adacario in Egypt, a Plant which is long, Leaflcfs, brown of colour, and |_ 
branched like Coral, fave that irclofeth atthetop. This being fet in Water | 
within Houfe, {predeth and difplaycth ftrangely ; andthe people thereabont | 
have afuperftitious belicf, that in the Labor of W omenit helpeth tothe cafie 
Deliverance. e 
He Cry/talline Venice-Glaff is reported to bea mixture, in equal portions, | 
of Stones brought from Pavia, by theRiver Ticinum, andthe Afhes of a 
Weed called by the eArabs, Kall, .which is gathered ina Defart between} 
cAlexandria and Rofestas and is by the Egyptians uledfirfl for Fuel, and then | 
they crufh the Afhesinto lumps likeaStone, and fofell them tothe Venesians | 
for their Glafs- works. a | 
[IZ is ftrange, and well to be noted, how long Carcaffes have continued | 
uncortupt, and in their former Dimenfions ; as appeareth in the Adummies | 
of Egipt, having lafted, as is conceived (fome of them) three taoufand] | 
years... It is true, they finde means to draw forth the Brainsy and to take| 
forth the Entrails, which are the parts apteft to corrupt. But thatis no-} 
thing tothe wonder; for we fee what a foft and cormptible fubftance the} 
Ficfh of all che other patts of the Body is, But it fhould feem, that accord-| — 
ing. to our obfervation and axiom, in our hundredth Experiments, Putre. | 
faction, which we conceive to be fo natural a Period of Bodies, is but ap 
accident, and that Matter maketh not that hafte to Corruption that is 
conceived ; and therefore Bodies in fhining Amber, in Quick-filver; in 
‘Honey, inGums, and (it 
may be)in Corfervatories of Snow, &c. are preferved very long. Itneed] 
not go for repetition, if we rcfume again that which we faid in the afore. 
faid Experiments concerning eA nnihilation, namely 5 That if you pro 
againft three caules of Putrefattion » Bodies will not corrupt. The firft, 
that the Air be excluded ; for that undermineth the Body, and confpi 
withthe Spirit of the Body to diffolveit. Fhefecond is, that the Body 2 
| cent and ambient be not Commaterial, but meerly Heterogeneal tow 
the Body that isto be preferved; for if nothing can bereceived by 
one, nothing can iffue from the others fuch are Quick-filver and Whit 
ber to Herbs and Flies, and fuch Bodies. The third is, that the Body t 
preferved.. be not of that grofs that it may corrupt within it felf, alchous 
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