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fuch as vaia Chymifts pretend to, he confefses hixn- 
lelf ignorant of. Only this he has obferved in his pra* 
d:ile, that by pouring upon Cinnabar^ is^QtX. Spirit 
of Vitriol^ though the Solution was only fuperficialj 
yet this Liquor did far exceed Cinnabar in Virtues. 
Amongft the different ways ot fixing Cinnabar by com* 
mon Salt^ Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur^ he gives a Method fo 
to prepare Cinnabar with Spirit of Ntter and Oil oi Pi* 
triol, that its Mercury will not tinge Gold white , and 
the C/72/2<i^Wthus prepar'd , thrown upon burning Coals, 
will all fly away. He luppoles Cnaffelius preparation was 
. fuch wherewith he cured the Gout ; and the Author him- 
felf tells us that he has with this Cinnabar ^ extradt of the 
Cortex^ LeJJer Centoryy Gentian, and Salt of Wormrvood^ 
made up in Bolus, Cured fome ^^uartans to admiration; 
yet he confefles 'tis not fo fixt, but that its Mercnry may 
eafily be revived again. To draw a Tindture from tV^- 
72«i«r he thinks not feafible, (ince he can find no Men- 
ftruum to diffolve it, but fliews divers ways of drawing a 
Tindure from the &//?^ar of Antimony included in the 
Cinnabar. 
Laftly he obferves that Cinnabar is the befl: correftor of 
Opium^ and defcribes a Preparation of his, where Opium is 
fo corredied, which he prefers before the richeft Lauda- 
num. 
In explaining the manner of the operation oiCinnabar^ 
he follows Helmonts Philofophy .,and aflferts, that it does 
not work only by abforbing -^^a^humors as fome would 
have it ; ({\nCQ by the afFution of an Acid on Cinnabar , no 
alteration is produced j but by opening all obfl:ru(9:ions, 
refolving Tartareoius humors,promoting their excretion ; 
'invigorating the Spirits the naturall ferments of the 
body ; and deflroying thofe that are noxious. 
It may feem need lefs to mention all the difeafes, a- 
gainft which he afTerts f//2«^^^r to be efledual; fincc he 
explains its Operations to be rnuch like thofc of a Fa- 
nacece. , 
