toinfcrtfeveralof them in fit places 6f thdit^HiJlory^ againft 
i1^eM%t Edition. Here is a certain Stone^ that is thought 
to be petrcfyed Bone^ being ftiap'd like a Bone, with the 
Marrowtakenouto but with a fit MtnjiruHnf^ I found that 
I could eafily diflblve it, like other fofc Stones : and poffi- 
bly it may prove as fit as Ojieocolla^ for the Q me Medicinal 
1Mb. 
Of the nature of a certain Stone^ found in the In- 
dieiSj in the head of ^Serpent, 
There waij fbsie while ago, (kmby SixThjlebtrio Verfi^tti 
from Jm-va major where he refideSj to Sir Robm Mor^y^ for 
the RepoGtoryof thclt^;'^/^^?a>//5 a certain Stone^ affirm* 
ed by the Prelenter to be found in the Head of a Snake^ 
which laid upon any Wounds made by any venomous Crea- 
ture, isfaid to ftick to it, and fo draws away all Poyfbn 
gnd then, being put in Milk, to void its Poyfon therein, aind 
to make the Milk turn blew 5 in which manner it muft be 
ufed^ till the Wound be cleanfed. 
The like Relations having been made, by feveral others, 
of fuch aStone, and fome alfo in this Gity affirmingj to have 
made the Sxperiment witbfuccefs, it was thought worth 
iwhile, to inquire further into the truth of this Matter : finee 
which time, nothing hath been met with but an Informa- 
tion^delivered by that Ingenious PariJia»j^Uoniic\irlhevenaf^ 
in his fecond of iht Relations of divers con fidir able 
Voyages^ whereof he lately prefented fome Exemplars to his 
Friends in England. The Book being in French, and not 
rommon, 'tis ponceived it will not be amifsto inferthere 
ihc faidlnformaftion, which is to this efFeft: 
In the Ea[l Indics^and in the Kingdom oi^amfym Chinas 
there is found a Stone in the Head of certain Serpents (which 
they call by a name fignifying Bairy Serpents Jwhich heals the 
bitings of the fame Serpent, that elfe would kill in 24 hours. 
This Stone is round, white in the middle, and about the 
, ' edges 
