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yet beiog oftco tried by the Author,had no cffc<9:.No inbrehad 
Eagle-ftones, famous for facilitating the travel of women j nor 
ftooes fwallow'd by CaymanrS^yd, hy JI<ionardes to be very pow- 
erful in curing Quartans, 9* Xhat the great digeftive power 
io Fovvl being notorious^he tnade very many E^erimcnts upon 
Hens, Ducks, Capons, Pigeons, by cramming into them many 
Cryftal-buUcts^both hollow and mafly ones^in which^upon kil- 
ling Sc opening thofe amraals, he found many very remarkable 
changcsrtoolongto behcrerecicedvWcfhall only note thence, 
that by feme of his Tryals he faw verified that Flormtin Expt* 
i f imcnr, by which Glafs-bullcts in theftomacks of Hens and 
^ Ducks had been found full of a certain white matter like curd-- 
led milk 5 which he thinks comes thither, from being cxpreffcd 
out of ihofc innumerable papills mhich are feared in the inner 
part of ih^ iefophagm of all Fowl, that is faftned to the upper 
orifice of the ftomack*. Whence he is inclined to believe, that 
pigeftion in the ftomack of Birds is not fully made by Grind- 
ing alonc,but that there is re quin/d a Menfiruum befidesjto fer- 
^ent5diflb]vejubtili(e,af]d to convert the meat already ground 
intoChyle: And heis pcrfuaded, that the gravel and ftoncs, 
fwallow'd by Fowl,and flir'd about by the Mufcle*,perforro the 
office of Teethe 
To thefe he adds^fome Tryals made by himfelf with the fa- 
mous G/^7/r-fifr^?f /jwhichjwhen temper d in water, andcrammtd 
mto Ducks and Capons, were after many days found intirc in 
^their ftcmaekjthough afterwards they flew in pieces^as they are 
wont to do.ihe tail of ihem being broke off. Two alfo ot the 
fame kind being weighed and given to a Capon to fwallow, 
were after 30 days taken out found^bnt weighed lefs between 2 
and 3 grains. But having Hn-temperd (Jiemperato) or taken off 
the temper with/r^^of one ofthefe Drops.weighing three pern, 
ny weighr^aud crammed it into a Capon^he found it had loft 4 
grains in4days5 and being given to fuch another Fowl, he 
lound-, It had,in($ days more,loft 9 grains: An Argument, he 
laith, that thofe Drops are much harder when tempered in wa- 
ter, than when untcmper'd with fire. 
He like wife tryed fmall Diamonds, trnxes^Leaden-bul^^^^^^ 
hemanjafi^^^^ . and fou^, theMhidloft nothing at 
moithtii weight in the ftonrack of a Duck jthc fecond^almoft 
no- 
