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Fomfhty ^ Wine abounds in Volatil Salt ^ and out of Its 
/em fuch Salt is extradcd. 
Fifthly ^"^vt^d as foon as 'tis in the ftomach^refrefliesaDd re« 
covers the faint^before any Chyle or blood is made of it 3 and 
even the ftcara of bread in the Oven is reftorative. Whence 
clfe, but that the Volatil Salts, which are fubtilc and exceed- 
ing active and pierciog^are darted into the Nervesg Veins and 
Arteries, and thereby fuddcnly relieve the indigent body } 
sixthly^ he affirms to have obtained fine cryftals out of 
ghiwcesj Opium.C^cwhich he can deduce from no other prin- 
ciple than that of Volatil Salt. 
Seventhly^ he ftith^ that he hath a&uaHy drawn from a cer- 
tain herb a very fine Volatile Armoniacal Sale J without any 
additament that could be as much asfufpefted to participate 
in the leafl: of any fuch Salt > and that he hath performed this 
without fire* 
This done, he relates the f^.*veral wayes ufcd by others to 
draw Volatil Salt out of Pkbts 3 and on this^-etcafion diftin* 
guiflies two forts of FtrMentatiorr^ the one defiruciive^ where- 
by the Form of the mixed bodies periflies , and which tends 
to Corruption 5 the other EUcitive^ whereby parts lament are 
brought to light^and are extricated from the bonds that kept 
them imprifoDsd, And by this latter way he faith that the Vo- 
latil faline parts may be fet at liberty and made to fly away. 
And having declared^ that by means of an Artificial fer- 
mentation Volatil Salt may be obtained out of Plants , more 
or lefs 5 he giveth this general direftion about it , that they 
rauft be bruifed, digeftedjand in due time (which is chiefly ia 
the Spring) their Volatil Salt collefteds referring particulars 
to a time^when he lhall have verified thisExperiment in more 
Plants, than he hath yet done* 
To all thisjhe annexes the great life of Volatil Salts extra- 
ftcd out of Plants^efpecially in almofl: allDifeafeSjfor as much 
as they are able to dif-obftruft the pores of the Brain^difcufle 
Lethargies and Apoplexies i afford to the Spirits a free pal- 
fage through the nerves s recover faintiogs 5 remove hypo- 
chondriacal and hyfterical fuffocations^attenuate the blood 5 
pafsintothe iomoft reccffesof the bowels, and opsn all ob- 
firuftions there 5 depurate the bloody and what not > 
He 
