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by the Sun and the fruit, not being yet diffipated, caufetli 
fuch a fermentation in the bloud , as is infeparable from a 
Fever, 
For the cure of a Tertian lie advifeth the Patient 
to take four or five drops of J^ofe^mary Oyl in Carduus be* 
nedtSlus and Fumiterry water, and to Iweat upon it, the 
body having been before prepared by general Medi- 
cins, &c* 
He omits nor^ upon occafion to interfperfe very curious 
reiparks 5 as that the Herb, called Gramen Offifragum , hath 
this property, thatj if any A»irnal do eat o\ it, the nerves 
and tendons will be fo relaxed 5 that it (hall hardly be able 
to ftir 5 but be as if its loins were broken : for which he 
thinks this reafon may be given, that poffibly in thofe places^ 
where this Plant grows 5 there are Mines of Qnickfilver or 
Lead, whence it may derive this quality fo hoftile to the 
nerves. There is another particular, among many others^, 
which we cannot leave un-mentiooed 5 vvr^ That, whereas 
common Chymifts make Sulphur to be the principal Caufe 
of the CqIqut in Mixts, he rather afcribeth it to Salt^ (as he 
alfo doth Tafl and Smell ) For the proof of which he 
alledgeth divers reafons , which he confirms by this Ex- 
perience \ That, to make Black Horfes become of a Dapple-^^ 
gray, you need only give them for forae days in the 
Spring a handful or two of fmall Oak- burtons mingled 
with their Oats ; And this change of Colour he at- 
tributes to the Vitriol abounding in Oak > and which 
caufeth that cracking noife, which is made by that wood 
when put in the fire* 
To ail which I muft add what he noteth concerning th^ 
Inteftio called Ccectim ^ the life of which is fo much con- 
troverted amongfl: Anatomifts , but difcover*d by this Au- 
thor to be^ that as the Bladder of Gall is the receptacle of 
the Gall^ fo this Ccecum is the receiver of the Flatus or 
winds ^ and that thence it is , that commonly 'tis found 
empty or only fome clear water in it^ which the winds 
have been turn'd into Adding , that Nature hath made 
this Inteftin larger in Hoggs, Birds of prey^and other Beafts, 
which 
