(2078) 
Naltir£ Curtoforum (an Academy of Curious Inquirers into Na» 
tare, J which fcme years ago have eftablifh'd themfelves in 
that Country, with a defigne chiefly to improve FhjfickjaiVid Na- 
iuralPhilofophy, For which purpofe, they havCj ( as I find ia 
their Salve Acddemcum^pYinted at Leipfickj)An.i667.)\indct' 
taken each of them> to confider and write upon determinate 
fubjeits) thereby to penetrate into the nature and qualities of 
Fartuular Bodies ( Generals having too long already buficd 
Mens Brains and Hands 5) as of the Vine^Tobacco^Aloe^ Scur* 
vy grafs, Wormwood^ Scor%onera^ St. Johns IVorth'-^ Iron^ ^f^fij 
tht Vnkorn^ the Stagg.Crahbs y the B loud- Ji one, Eagk-fione-^ 
Mufi^ Civet^AmberfiLc. Befides which, they have attempted, 
(after the wayjtaken up in France^Italy^^r\d England,^ to write 
and ublifli Ephetnerides^ov a Dmrnalpx tranfaSions of a Phi- 
lofophicalNature, intending therein to prefent the Curious 
yearly with fuch Medical, Anatomical^ Botanical^ Pathological^ 
Chiru gical^ iherapeutical^ and f^^^/rWObfervations^as they 
.fhali by their correfpondence either with the Phyficians and 
Philofophers of their own Body and Nation, or with thoie of 
other Societies and Countries^procureand digeft. And of this 
they give 2iSpecimen in the Book, of which an Accompt is now 
to be given^out ofthat EAre^z/^/^r^which was fent from that Ge- 
nerous Body by the hands of the Learned Dr* Sackj^, ( a Mem- 
ber of the fame) to the Publifher. In it are contained 160 Ob- 
fervations^ and i9Tablesof Figures being the Sum of what 
they havecollefted forthefirft Year^whichis i6jiy. 
Of them we (ball Engli(h/or a taft of the Curious here^what 
followeth 3 obferving the promifcuous way of recital , which 
is in the Book it feif.Among others then f till more Copies of 
the Book come over,) we take notice of; 
I, A Relation of Snakes kept tame in an Houfe, going uno 
their boxes every night, and feen to cail: their fkin, and (one 
of them) to lay 15. Eggs in the fpace ot'an hour and ahaif^ fa-~ 
cilitated by him that kept them ^ who alfo differed one of 
themjand communicated the remarkable things in that Opera- 
tion* 
An Hiftory to evince.that part'of the is by iht.DHStts 
ThoracicHs Qomeytdinioihe Sukcluvials^ and fo into the Ci* 
ftern oftheRreafts, whence by certain Pipes it is carried into 
ihe Glanduls or Kernels,there to be elaborated, either for the 
. aliment. 
