^ €very Tetrachordjand reduced them alfo to a T^^- 
hit. ' . ^ " ' " ' ■ 
Beficics this 9 he difcourfcs atuply of the Jccord of more 
p:.rg. 190. Sounds^ and ot Harmonical Froportionalitf § as al- 
io of the Pajfions of the Soul; how they arc eoncero'd in aod 
wrought upon by Mufickjgiving us a Table of the fevcral Mu- 
fealChc rdes fuiced 10 the Icveral Affcftions.He coocludcs the 
whole with a large difcourfc of the Modern, both Church 
and othcr^Mufick, 
Now> whether this Author have by all thefe his Speculati- 
ons and pains given a perfeft Scale of Mujicliaccordiag to the 
true Proportions of SoundsjCwhich is the great dejideratum is 
JMufickj) wemuftleaveto the judgement of the great Ma- 
fters of Mufickj efpecially to the judicious and extraordina- 
rily skilful Mufitian Mr . Birchenjha ; who, it is ftill hop- ^ 
edj if he be competeotly encouraged and affifted, will indue 
time publiflb to the world a Cotnpleat Syftem of Mufick, af- 
ter the method formerly taken notice of io thefe tra&s.Numb, 
90^ p. 515-3. 
Ih Georgii VVedeliiiJi- D. Specimen Experime^ti Novi^ de 
Sale Volatili Plantarum^ Fraocofurti, 1672+ in la". 
-''T^His Author endeavors to fhew in this tra&^ that by a 
A peculiar way there may be drawn out of Plants a true 
and geouiGe Volatil Salt 5 alTcrtiog:, that there is not only io 
CephalickjAoti-fcorbutlckj &c^ but alfo in thofe Plants that 
are infipid and accounted cold^a volatil Salt lurking. And this 
he offers to prove; • 
Firji^hy the food of Animals 5 that live altogether upon 
Grafsjaod fuch like herbs^aoci do abound ioVolatil Salt -which 
he pretends is not made fuch by digeftion, fince to him it is 
not imagioable^ that th^ Heat of Animals, or the Ferment of 
their innate Volatil Salt, is fo multiplicativcj as to diffufe aod 
cKtend it felffo far^ as_to prepare this Salt^ and that fo copi- 
cufly out of Herbs fuppofed to have none fuch. 
Secondly^ Ghymifts ' are granted to draw hot Spirits out of 
cold i Why rheo ftiould tht7 not afford Volatil Salts^fince ar- 
deot Spirits are akin Co them?. 
ihirdly^ the fraoak aod foot of herbs and wood punge the 
eye «* Wlieoce that but, from a volatile Spirit? ^ 
Fourthly^ 
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