HI. Ge^rgii Bieronyml Velfchii Hec4tofie£ IL Objerv/ttiomm PHI- 
SICO'MEDIGJRUM Auguft^ Vindelicorum, ^675, 
OF thefe Two Centuries of Obfcrvations we ffiall here touch 
fome of the chief, -z//^. 
1. Of th^f tnit of SoUf$um Veficarium^ which being of a fweet- 
acidtafte, when gacher'd immediately by themouth , grows pre- 
fently bitteriipon the leaft couching of them with ones finger. 
2. Of the Sale of Cetitaurmm mim4 (the fmall Furpk-ce^Urj} 
which our Author faith doth, when kindled^ make almoft as vehe- 
ment a noife as Gun-powder ; Adding this further Note, that he 
can prepare out of the Sale of another Vegetable (which he names 
not) a kind of Gun-powder , which when a bullet is put upon ic 
in the free Air, throws it up to a confiderable height , with a great 
noife , no otherwife than if it canie out ofa Gun-barrel. 
3* Ofa Maf5,whofe calling was that ofa Porter,who was found, 
when opeo'd after his death, to have his skull of thethicknefs of 
ones little iSnger and without any Sutures at all , and yet in his life- 
time never Jieard to have complain'd of the head-ache» 
4. Ofa ^^/&/>^ Magnet , found in the Repofitoryof a Curious 
perfon , of the fame power with the bed of common Magnets. As 
alfo of another Loadftone in the fame perfons pofTeflion , that was 
faftitious; of the manner of making of which the Author gives his 
thoughts at large. ^ 
5. Of an odd efieft ofa Childbearing womans Imagination; 
whereby (he , being furprifed and frightned with the fight of an 
Ape carrying a red hat on his head , brought forth a Childe exaft- 
ly refembling the head of an Ape fo dreffcd , and for the reft like a 
human body. 
6. OfTryals made with the Symfathetick Powdtr prepared of 
Vitriol both burnt and unburnt ; Which were thefe : The Author 
having by chance wounded bis hand , he well wetted a linnen rag 
with the blood of that wound, (w/^^jis^^ any of the faid fympathetick 
Powder,) and clofeditup in a cheft , where it was free from the 
open Air, fmoakandduft, tying the wound about with nothing 
but another meer linnen rag ; The next day he caufcd the faid rag 
that was laid up in the cheft , to be expofed to the Noon-heat in one 
of the Dog-days 3 without finding any inconvenience from thence: 
sa he did neither upon expofmg the fame to the Fire; nor upon im- 
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