///. Joh.Ludov.Ganfii Af Z). C0RALL16RUM HISTO- 
RIA. Framofurti A, 1669, /»I2*. 
IN this Hiflory the Author affirms to have digefted both what haiB 
been deliver d of Corals^ and what himfelf hath obfcrv'd and try d 
of that curious produft of Nature , taken notice of by the Poet^ 
4. MetAm, 
Sic & Coralium , qtio frlmHm contigic atiroi 
Tempore , durefcit , mollis f nit herbu fub undii. 
Which affirmation this Author looks upon as poetical indeed and fiAitious, 
affercing , that Coral is originally a Mineral , and a kind of precious 
Stone, Corals being no berries petrified , but pieces filed off and turnd , 
from the trunck, round and polilht. 
Hisopinion therefore is, that Coral is form'd out of a glutinous Juyce, 
which beingturn d into Stone by afalc, abounding in it, rifeth up in the 
form of a Shrub , the fait being the caufe, thatmaketh plants fpread into 
branches. 
The places of the produftion of Coral he names to be , the Red Sea 
(where they are darkiftij the PerfianGulf^ the Sicilian and Neapolitan 
ftore. Some of them are Red, others White, others Blackifli. 
To this Accompt he annexes various Preparations made of them ; as al- 
fo divers Solutions, of which he delivers one as an excellent diffolvent 
both of Corals and pearls made of very well redifi'd fpirit of Salt, dige- 
fted, and freed of its Corrofivenefs , and then mixt with good fpirit of 
Wine diftiird and brought over tiie Alembic, Maj-Dtw is alfo much 
commended by him for a fit Menftrunm , if the fpirics diftili'd from it be 
joyn'd with its own Sale. 
He treats alfo of the Magi flterics, Extrad", Oyl,Tinfture, Quintef- 
fence. Bowers; as alfo of the Vcrtues of Corals , and of the way of making 
faditious ones. 
E R *2? ATAi left uncorrc^ed in fome of the former Trafts 
In No 54. p. 108 Z.I. 14. r.4pG0. ib. I.52. r.CArnioU for Carintbia, p. 1^ 83. 1. i^.r.thc 
^iclisy p. 1084. 1. 1 p. r. upon retiring o( the waters. 
InNo 56, p. 113^. 1.2$. r.eurljland,^ iij/.l.id. r. br it le diamonds j ibid. I.26. r #r 
P'Ji I $^.r,werc a continued andentirey p.ii^p.Ljj.r./^r^iir or through 
^poinding. 
In No 57. P.T147. l.j.r. commmiutionsy ibid. I.ult. r. ii*J?r^, p.ii j J.L|5.r.c/^<i«^»|;t 
p.ii J8.I.24 r-found byy p 1171.1.1 8. r.p/^we^fe, ib./pc^4JMr,ib,l.i^. fpictatur. 
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