Dr. Lifter to Mr, Ray. * 



which too, perhaps, it will bare, and not much 

 wrefted. But too much of this. 



I have communicated to Mr. Oldenburgh my 

 Notes of the Bleeding of the Sycamore, in An- 

 fwer to a late Letter of his. He likewife put the 

 Query to me of the Pifmires changing blue Flowers 

 red, which it feems fome body had fent him in. As 

 for Mr. JeJ/ofs and Mr. Fijher's Experiments which 

 you communicated to me, I did not fend them to 

 him as not belonging to me 5 but I told him there 

 were fuch Perfons that had better examined the Mat- 

 ter than I. Somewhat after the Receipt of yours, 

 I found another Infe£t, which I guefs will yield an 

 acid Juice, for it moft fiercely ftrikes the Nofe with 

 a fiery and acid Smell, juft after the Manner of the 

 bruifed Bodies of Pifmires. This Infeft hath no 

 Sting, and is the long and round-bodied Lead-co- 

 lour'd Multipeda^ or lulus. Methinks the Juice of 

 that creeping Flammula about Montpelier was, as far 

 as I remember, much like this of Pifmires. 



My hearty humble Service to Mr. Willughby. If 

 you try the Experiment of gilding, remember that 

 the fcum be fuffered to become a little ftiff and firm, 

 otherwife it will be apt to break into very fmali Pieces 

 in theFiltre,and notihewfo well. I might inclofe part 

 of a gilt Filtre, but that it is fo apt to break, and 

 wear off with the lighteft Touch. 



I pity your Pain, which I begin to know a little 

 my ielf 3 but in truth I know no certainer Remedy, 

 than one Grain, or lefs, of Laudanum difTolved in 

 Spirit of Wine. This never failed to eafe me. 



I thank you for my Book of Proverbs : I am much 

 pleased with it > but my Wife will have it her Book. 

 Adieu my dear Friend. Feb. 8 . — 70. 



Our Sycamore bled yefterday at the breaking up of 

 a feven Days continued Froft > and I am now apt to 

 believe, if 1 had had the Care to have made new 



Wound| 



