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a^rm fuperftrufture of his tharmacemice^ he hathlaftly deliver^ 
abundance of Medicaments^ refpefling thofe examined Parrs and 
Regionsof the body, and their peculiar Indifpofitions which 
Remedies are both Simple and Compounded,01d and New , Dog« 
matiqueandEmpirique : Of the preparations, operations and 
effefts of all which he fubjoyns their refpeftive Reafons. 
II. COLLEGIUM EXPERlMElSrTJLE five CURIOSUM, 
in qm frimArU hujus Seculi Invent a ^ Experiment a Phyfice- 
^tathematica^ ji.iGji. quibufdam N&tur<id ScrutMoribm fpe- 
&anda exhihuit & ad caufas fuas naturales demonjirativa me- 
thodoreduxit Johannes Chriftophorus Scurmius, ikr^^/^<f;i^. ac 
FhyfJn Jcadem. Altdorfina 2rof. drc. Norimbergae, ^.1676. 
in^^. 
THe Learned Author of this Pi^ce , in the Invitation he 
made to fome Students in Philofophy, at Altorf in Germany, 
importing that they would lift themfelves under his coodiift for 
the Examination and Confideration of fome of thofe Difcoveries 
and Experiments made of lare years, takes notice, that in this 
one Age, notyec elapfed, there hath been a far greater progrefs 
made in Natural Philofophy , than in many Ages before , and 
that by means of that happy Experimental Method ^ embraced 
and exercifed by xhQ Royal Societies of England and France^ and 
the noble CoUedgesoi Rome, Florence^ Venice^ &c. by which Me- 
thod, he faith, the Difputacious way of wrangling about mere 
Scholaftical and fruitlefs notions being laid afide, Things them- 
felves from the inmoft Recefles of Nature have been fearched in- 
to, and not a few of them difcover'd and brought ro light. 
Of which thac he might enamour aod pofiefs his Auditors, he 
refolved to take the pains of propofing and explaining them 
to thofe that were inclined to fuch Studies^ and having fo 
done, ro make publicktherefultof all thofe particulars; Which 
is the thing he hach now executed in this Volume; Wherein the 
Reader will find XVI Ejfays , of a Philofophical Nature , by him 
treated of; which he acknowledges to have been, at leaft for 
the moft pare 3 handled, experimented and difcourfed of, by 
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