f 5024 ) 
JLaJlly.he teacheth his way of preparing Mtah and Mnerals 
for the health of man ^ affuring the ingenious Searcher after 
this knowledg, that he may with confidence have recourfeto 
it, both for lafety and efficacy, beyond the common Prepa- 
rations now in ufe 5 and adding withalUhat^becaufe he knows 
many Praftitione-n raiy want either time er cont 
veniency to provide themfelves with(uch Medicines, he pro- 
mifes herewith, that he will, upon their defire, fparethem 
fuch Medicines as he hath prepared for his own ufe, whether o{ 
the more common preparations but better elaborated , or 
other particular remedies , and that,upon a friendly account^ 
the Medicine rightly qonfidered : Declaring moreover hi^. 
willingnefs to afford any Learned Phyfitian the fatisfaftion 
feeiDg his Laboratory, or the Preparation of any medicine 
he (liall defire at feafouable times* 
Here^when he treateth of the Preparation of Afercury,hc in« 
timatesj that that being well performed it will yeild a Medicine 
much availeable in the care of very many difeafes, and that a* 
ti)^tuto^^jncunde-, whereas otherwife^if Mw«ry be only chan- 
ged in form , it may, being imprudently and rafhly ufed, do 
aiore hurt than good. Whereupon he fets down fome of fuch 
Procefles and preparations of this odd Metal, as hejudgeth 
moftfafe, and gt for internal Medicines: Which feem to de- 
fer ve the conlideration of fober and intelligent Readers* 
IV. Mi/cellanea Curio fa PHYSlCOMEDlCA Academia Na^ 
tune Curioforum I annus iecundus, ««;?/y?, 1671. Jcu^e 
167U i»4^ 
AS there was given an Account in N*. 68. of the firft 
Years Philoidphical Ephemerides of the German Acade- 
my of the Curious Inquirers into Nature^fo we fhall here give 
notice, that the fame Academifts have made publick their 
Colle<9;ions of^be fecond yearj falling into 1 671 5 In which a* 
mongft many other pai'ticulars there are contained thefe 
following s 
A difTecaionofa Lyonefs, andaTyger. 
2. Several odd peculiarities of Nature* 
3.A 
