(Sri) 
Fit & Goflarienfe } itriolumfer cotluram. P oft q a am enim iermvitruid* 
ta ex vicino monte Rammelo in officittas collorias delata fuit 9 faclo lixivio, in 
ahem plumbeo mum Vulcano negotium cemmittunt. Hie poftquam fide I iter 
fuam navavit operam, jerque definition coUioni tempm cref it antes [ubwiniftra- 
vit fiawmaSy liquor We coUm ex'oauritur^ inque cados ligneos inftgnis peripheric 
& ' altitudinis tranfmittitur. Super h&c vafa lignea ademantur, tranprorum 
in morem^trabecuU perforata. His foraminibus adapt antur^& firmantur ca- 
lami arpindinis, qui ad fundum ufque vafis immittuntur. Ubi itaque con* 
gelafcit \poft aliquod temporis intervallum adherent calamis chrjftalli VitriolatV^ , 
eximium prabentes oculis felamen y pelluciditate fua cum Sapphirina gemma ds* 
certantes. 
Here he examins; why Vitriol will onely be boyled in Leaden Veffds,.. 
and alledges divers-opinions concerning it. 
He alfo mentions an Experiment, which feems pretty, if true • viz. that 
Vitriol, placed clofe to Amber, will lofe its colour and pungency. 
He takes notice, when he lets forth the praifes and ufes of this Mineral ; 
that it alone may well make up the fourth part of an Apothecaries Shopv 
and cure the fourth part of Difeafes. A Paracelftan affertion ! 
He forgets not the Sympathetic!^ Powder y made of this fubftance ; nor its 
vertue in flopping pertinacious Hamorrhagies ; alledging an Example of a 
Country-man, who having been forely wounded in his Skull, fo that the bleed- 
ing could not be ftopp'd any other way, had by the application of this vi- 
triolate powder prefent help, and foon after a perfed cure of his wound. 
R,Vitrioli Gofiwdn Solis radH$«ad' album calcinati uncias vi 1 1 5 pulvv 
Gummi tragac. purijfimi i, unci am, Mifc, invicem diligent er. ^ ut fiat - 
fulvis fubtiliflimtu Jjmpatheticus, 
IV. Francifci de le Boe Sylvii PRAXIS ME^BICtAi Idea .tteva:, 
Lib. Lugd; Batav. in 12 0 1667. 
THis Treatife was not long fince tranfmitted to the Pub lifter by the 
Author himfelf, and there is perhaps as yet never an other Exemplar 
©fit in England; which is therefore intimated here, that our Stationers 
may be invited to fend for fome Copies of .it over the Book feemiog to be 
froth very ingenious, and confiderable. 
There are in this firft part of the Idea considered thofe Diftempers^whicli 
refped thedifeafed Fundions Natural, as in the fecond part he intends to 
confider thofe, which regard the difeafed Animal Fundions^ndin tbQ-.third 0 
fuch as belong to thofe, that are appointed for • Generation. 
Of every Diftemper he endeavours to difcover its nature s c.auies 5 concomi~ 
rants, remedies, of which laft he delivers a great number of prescriptions 
which he varieth according to the various tempers and humors of Patients, 
He intermixes abundance of Philofophical Speculations and Reniarte 3 
amongwhich are fome concerning Fermentation ; the noxioufneft of all 
6m things, as either deftroy or dull the Acid fpirit of the Body in the -work 
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