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thofe Salts $ upon theconta&of one another, or of Mineral Bodies, arc 
the Efficient caufci of Heat in thofe Springs; he thence takes occafion to 
teach , How Artificial Baths may be made analogical in vertue and opera* 
tion to the Natural', (hewing withal the efficacy of Hot Springs and 
Baths, whether Natural or Artificial, in curing moft of theftubborneft 
Difeafes. 
Fourthly , The Author digreiTes to the Vindication of Chymieal Pbyfiel^ 1 
defcribing firft, what the Chymical Art is ; next , endeavoring to remove 
the reproach laid on it r and laftly , declaring the great affiftances thereby 
afforded to Nature, above ordinary Shop-prcparations,in order to the Cure 
of Difeafes : From which laft he takes occafion to exfpatiate into the praife 
of this Art , upon the at count alfo of its great ufefulnefs for improving Ex- 
perimental Philofophy , and for penetrating into the Principles of all Con- 
cretes, whether Vegetable, Animator Mineral : inferting withal, by way 
of digreffion, his thoughts of mVniverfal Character y meaning fuch an 
one,which, being known in ail parts of the World , foould fignifie the fame 
thing in all Countreys • fo that all People skili'd therein fliould every where 
read it every one in their own Language. 
To all this is annex'd an Appendix concerning the Original of Spring* in gent' 
tSLl , in which the Author admits$ that Rain- and- Snow- waters are indeed the proximate 
Caufe of all Land-Springs and fudden Floods > filling the Porofities and Channels 
cf the Ear th's fur face , and that the remaining part reftagnats , till it meet with conveni- 
ent Currents out of Brooks and Ditches into other Rivolcts , and thofe again > by further 
paffages, fwcll into Rivers , and thereby caufe Inundations of low grounds , till thofe Ri- 
vers empty trumfclves, by other intermediate ones, into the Sea it lelf : But that the fame 
Ihouid be the caufe of the Jontes Pcrennes, or Living Springs , he pofitively denies; 
advancing this Thefts 9 That there is a Circulation of Water in the Terraqueous Globe , 
as requiiire to its well-being, as the Circulation of Blood in Animals , whereby the witer, 
through fubterraneous Channels along the Sabulum bulliens , runs from S.a to Sea , and 
alfo from the Sea to the Heads of Springs, and from them into R : volets , and thofe into 
Rivers , and thence into the Ocean, and fociiculat<s round: which, be faith , in- 
cludes alfo another Circle of Rain and Snow , which firft arifing by Exhalations 
from the Sea and Earth , are carried down again upon:the Earth and Sea , and joyning 
jlfue with Rivolets from Springs , do fwell Rivers , which again difcharge themfclres in- 
w the Sea. 
Lafllj, The Author concludes, fir/f, with an account he gives of a7i?r»<*7of Medi- 
cines ufed byhimfdf, for curing many Difeafes j vp(. i. Cathartic^, or Solutive ; 
a. Cordial , or expelling of Wind J 3. 'Diaphoretic^ or Sweating. The firft he calls 
Sc*rbutic\ Pills ; the fecond, Elixir Proprietatis, or Cordial Elixir j the third, Vja- 
phorctjek, or Sweating Pills. Which three Preparations, he faith* are compofed of the 
beft Vegetables, extracted by Salts , that are graduated to the highelt pi ch 5 experienced 
by himfelf to be both fafe and effectual in the cure of Difeafes. Secondly, with a Defcripti- 
cn of the Ejjence , as he calls it, of scarbrough Spaw , which hemakcth to be the re- 
mainder after divers fabulous feparations j yf*. a kind of Alumino-nitrous Sal: , which, 
being duly order'd ffioots into long Chriftalline Stma\ , and branches it felf forth in 
curious ftiapcs in the bottom of the Glals, cxpofed to a Balneum Mati#. 
Errat. K° 41. p.8z<5. 1.2 1. r. ut fiant % ib.\.$Q,r.augentur) p.3 27.1.x ixMlurejb.l ulr. 
r. quid, p.di*.L$l.r.nptanda. 
Errat. 42. P* 8 i^A.is.r.proeced in, p.844 •\i7.x.albuginea,\b\.rq,x.videre eft. 
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