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notice of feveral Tradls publiflied by divers Philofophers and ' 
Pbyficiatisof Germany \ viz^ The three Centuries of the Me* 
dicinalMifcellanies of Dn Velfhius: The Hiftory of Dr. JE/- 
fiioltius of a SteomA fuccefsfuUy cut and cured , together with 
his Epiftle of a Conception in the Tuba Uteri: Some obrerva- 
tions of Dr. Balduh \ concernirg i. the Regermination of 
Silver, by a new artifice ; 2. the Urns of ilie pag^n Germans. 
, 3. aFafliciousftone, (hininginrhe dark, afcer ic hath been a 
while expos'd to the Sun , as the natural EoUnim ttout is hid 
to do, though that artificial one is affirmed to do ic in a more 
excellent manner, forafmuch as, when after the imbibition of 
the Solar light it iscaftinto a glafs-rullof Spirit of Niter, it 
doth notwithftanding fhine in the darlc; and that more is, 
when 'tis taken out of thefaid liquor, and dried again in the 
dark to make it lofe its light, and then put again into a glafs- 
full of cold water, and expofed to theday-lighr , it will for all 
this reH me a fplendent brightnefs even in the cold wat. r ir felf : 
Again, being again taken out of the cold wa.er and dried, and 
deprived of its light in the dark, and then put into a hot 
oven, ic will there recover its light, though the room be 
dark. There is further mentioned and defcribed in this work 
J)T^ Mentzelius his Traft, comparing this Shining flone of 
V.Baldum with that of Bolonh-^ asalfo,Dr. Wedeliiu's Experi-^ 
ments about the Extraftion of the Volacil Salt of Tartar^" 
long fince performed here by Dr. Daniel Cox, whom he alfo 
cites for it; Likewi(e, anEpiftleof Dr. Reijfelius to the Grr- 
iw^/; Academifts about feme Defiderata in Phjfick, hitherto 
not much confidered, or cared for ; where mention is made of 
an Hijloria Medica , expeded from Dr. Sch^ferus. Laftly, an 
Account given by Dr. B^m>^, the King of P(>iWj chief Phy- 
fician, concerning fomeAnti-podagrical remedies, made ufe of 
in the cure of Ukdijlam IV. King of that Country 5 where, 
occafionally, the Herb is named and defcribed, wherewith the 
Eaftern Nations tinge not only the Mains and Tails of thtir 
Horfes, but alfo fome parts of their own body. 
If. Nouvelle 
