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Water, of the fame taft 2irtd opcrnion with the Natural, And as to 
the Experiments , which concern the Sulfhur-Water^ and confequently 
ail other the like Sulfhar-SfringSy he affirms them to be fuch , as no Au- 
thor, that he knows, hath taken notice of, believing alfo , that they 
may yield no very fmall light for the further advancement of Sulphu- 
rous and other Mineral Waters. 
And forafmuch as the Eflence of the Scarbreugh-Sfaw confifts , in his 
opinion, moflwhat of an Aluminms Salt, he thence, taketh occafion to 
give an Accorapt of the Alome-Works at whit by defcribing alfo the 
Difference betwixt the Natural and Faditious Alome. 
To all which he annexeth • Firfl , A return to fome Slueries , for- 
merly propounded in iV*. 52» of ihtkTraEis by T>,Dan.Foot , con- 
cerning Mineral Waters. £Where the Reader is defired to take notice 
-of the great miftake of Dr, Symffon , in calling thefe Papers the Ph 
'T rmfaEikns of the R, Society ^ which is a great injury to that Illuftrious 
3ody, thefe Trads being only the Communications of a Tingle Per- 
Xon, who hatLalfo heretofore exprefly fignified fo much to the World 
iV% ii. of thefe Books ^ and Hill fignifieth the like at the end of eve-^ 
ry year, in the fevcral Dedications of the fame. 3 Secondly ^ Some Re- 
flexions upon the mofl: material PafTages and Experiments, in a late 
Treatifc, printed in Z(3;^io^, andEntituTd, Scarhrough Spaw ^ Spagyri^ 
c ally anatomise by Dr» G.Tonftal : in which Reflexions, a way is pro« 
pounded for preventing all Inconveniencies , which may happen to 
thofe that drink the faid Spaw, Thirdly^ An Examination of the G'^'r- 
man Spaw- Water, as he found fome of it fealM up in Bottles in Holland. 
Fourthly y Some Obfervations on a Difl'eded Woman, who dyed of the. 
^mndlce* 
Through the whole Book are to be met with, divers Obfervations^ 
Experiments, and Hints , which may give occafion to the Reader to 
improve the feveral Subjeds, which they relate to. Among other par* 
ticulars, h-e infinuates, that he knows , by a Biffolvent , not rare a« 
mong Chymifts, with the addition of a Man's breath , to calcine a 
Metal, without which (orfomething equivalent thereto ) 
the humid Calcination of that Metal cannot be perform'd item, How 
to melt another Metal ( prepared after a certain manner) with the 
help of one fingle Lamp, un-aflifted by any hh^-^ item. That fome 
MenftruHm^^s may difiblve or break in pieces the clofe riveted parts of 
compad Bodies , when yet they leave other Bodies of a fofter and : 
{lighter texture untouch't : which, he adds, giveth light to the poflibi» . 
lity of finding out by Art fuch Menftrmm's , as may diflblve and 
comminute the hard Stone in the Bladder , without touching the foft 
membrane of it, and other entrals ; Item, That not only iV^W is a- 
frefh to be got out of the fame Earth, it was formerly extracted from • 
but the like is obferv'd in the Minerals of Vitriol and Alome - and, 
which is more, that the Generation of Metals is not terminated with ^ 
one produftion, the Tinners in 0?-;?^ having found after 30 years. 
