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WillUm Petty propofes in his Double prcprtions ; for I have not 
read the Traftjand if I underftand you judge the thing rational , 
I (hall endeavour to procure the Inftruments , and proceed to 
praftice , and ftiall pay you my hearty thanks with a ready re- 
turn of any fervice that lies in me, being, Sir^ 
St0ny'Ba'Jlony]mt 1 7. Tour $ldigedmd hifmble Servant^ 
1 676. J . Beaumont Ju;t. 
An Account of fome Books : 
1. Ephemeridum Medico phyjicarum Germaniurum jiNNUS 
IV ^ V, Ami 1 6 73 1 674,C^^* Cum ^ppe^tdice : Franco- 
furti dr Lipfia?, 1676, i?$ quarto. 
THisinduftriousColleftion contains 2 r o Obfervations ; 
among which not a few feem confiderableand uncoramons, 
E.g. Menfes comingac 8 and 9 years of age : A Prince that 
lived a great while with great and dangerous difeafes : The Er- 
rors of Nature in one part,fupplied by another; A prefervation 
from drunkennefs by the gaping of a Suture of the Head: A 
cure of the Scurvy by a Dog's licking the Patient in the parts 
moftafFefted^together with the cure of that Dog , becoming al- 
together rcabby,by Mercurim ^«/^^tTwo men monthly trou- 
bled with the HsemorrhoidSjfrom their youth, the one unto the 
eightieth, the other to the ninetieth year of his age : An Ague 
recurring every eighth day: Worms of divers forts fallen down 
with Snow in Hungary yWOt far from the Copper-mines of that 
Country : Of a young woman, that though fhe did for a while 
drink wine, yet came afterwards fo to abhor it, that flie could 
take nothing pbyfical , that had any thing preparedof Tartar 
in if,bu t did fweat,and faint away when it was given her,though 
Ihe knew nothing of ic before hand : The juyce of Hemlock 
mixed ©nly with a little Sugar,for feveral days taken inwardly, 
to the quantity of three ounces at a time, to allay the heat of the 
Liver; follow'dby no other noxious efFeft but a debilitation of 
thertrengthof the Patient; The Preparation of the Hclmontian 
ludus, together with an account, that the Oil , drawn of black 
Flints, fuch as we ftrike fire with , cures the Scone of the Blad- 
der; as alfo, that the Spirit of Sea-fLilf, tf^tcxdWy of Spanifb- 
fait, is a potent remedy againft the Strangury ; A wound in the 
Bread and Lungs not mortal; Fontinelsor Iffues naturally ari- 
fing in the Arms and Feet,and curing a Patient of a violent Head-- 
flche^and troublefom puftulesof the Head ; as alfo ofanlffuc in 
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