AstotheirwayofBuilding^diftiudionsobferv'd in Cloath- 
ingjand their Fuel^I refer to the Authour himfelf. 
Thirdly^ concerning the remainders of the Antient Build- 
ings this Author delivers many particulars^confonant to what 
others have written of the fame, as Pyramids.Obdijkj^Jque- 
duUs^ the Colcmn of Pompey^Scc, 
III. Tbeod K^rckringii M,D, Commentarius in CVT^JiVM Tl^I- 
VM?HAlEM ANTIMON// Bajjh Valenttniy a fe Latinis 
tatedonatum, Amftelodami, 167 1« ini2\ 
THis Learned Phyfician affureth the Reader in the Pn- 
face to this Book, that having carefully perufed the 
Antimonial Treatife of Falentin^ he tried all the particulars. 
Ordered ^herein to be done j but that in the performance 
thereof he erred frequently^ and was at great expences withs 
out fuccefs;, yet not by any default of the Author, but alwaies 
his own; efleeming this ^^/7/ to be the beft, the fincereft and 
thecleareftof all Chymifts he knoweth^ and engaging his 
creditj that he being wellunderftood, you may have what e« 
ver can be hoped for from Chymiftry^ Nature having lodg* 
ed, ashethinks, all her Treafures in this Mineral) p.42. 
In his Commentary upon this Chariot he intimateth to have 
delivered fomef/zc'^^r^/?/ or Manual Operations, which, how 
flight foever they may fcem , he faith have coft him man 
thoufands3 adding, that patience in feapching, ability inex- 
pending, unwearied attention and deep meditation, are the 
requifites tp attain the knowledge of what is here contained* 
Of the rtiany things, that are faid concerning the excellent 
ufefulnefs of Antimonial Preparations , our Commentator 
extols in a very efpecial manne r the Red Oyl &f the Glafs of Ant 
of which yet he teacheth the way of preparing it but 
jeaigraatically, though he adds, tohave done it more clearly 
thanany body declared it to him. This he affirms to be the 
truly Vniverfal Medicine^ being feafonably and rightly ufed j 
alledging (p. 1 64 i6y.) a confiderable Experiment of his own, 
made with ic, importing, that by the means of ihhDiaphof 
retic^Oyl alone he cured a young woman of ahigh Dropfie in 
twenty daies^making her on the fourth and the following days 
fo tolwim in water from fwear, that it dropped at length 
through the bed upon the floor. 
