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wife: Of a grievous Megrim, removed by Veficatories, 
and Spirit of Sal Armoniac drawn in by the nofe ; which 
proved To efFeftual, that the Patient foon after voided at the 
nofe a whole quart of water, and fo was cured : Of a nian^ 
that fpent a whole fortnight without any fleep, and ycc found 
no inconvenience in his vital and animal funftions by it: Of 
one, that for feyeral weeks had had an ague only in his right 
Arm, which came regularly aboutfevena clock in the morn- 
ing, the reft of his body remaining all the while in its natural 
temper; Of one, that upon plunging himfeif feveral times, 
when he had fits of a Tertian upon him, into a river near him, 
was cared ; Qhut berpare of imitation : ) Pleurifies , and Hy- 
dropical fwellings , cured by the ufe of Lin-f^^d oyl : Hae- 
morrhoids cured by the fmell of Myrrhc, Frankincenfe and 
Maftick : Of one in Denmark^ whofe fpitle is as fweet as 
fugar, though he love things acid : 0/ Salts concreted into a 
Glaffy flexil plate by mixing Spirit of 
wine camphorated with fpirit of Harts- *5ecNumb.39.p»78o, 
horn, and powringit upon ignited parts oftbefeTraai. 
of Iron «3 from which mixture the Cam- 
phirefirft, being got out of the pores of the Spirit of wine, 
made the whole body of the liquor troubled and look like a 
tnowy lamgo or cloud ; and then it fubfided, leaving the li- 
quor all clear; but, fome days after, the faid mixture being 
gently ftirred, a very thin plate, like Mufcovia Talk, per- 
feftly diaphanous, like glafs , was obferved to fwim there- 
in ; and to fliew, that this proceeded not from the refrafti- 
onof the rays from the furface of the liquor, the Obferver 
did feveral ways change his pofition, and that of the fuppofed 
glafs, towards the light ; whereupon not only the appearance 
of the faid plate did not difappear, but by a manifeft undula- 
tion and flexiblenefs of its own in the midfl: of the liquor, 
it anfwerd to every undulation of the liquor, caufed by the 
gentle agitation of this g^afs. 
But to proceed to fome other Obfervations, we fhall fur- 
ther take notice 5 0/ one, that once in all his life time, for 
thefpace of a whole Moon (which was that of ALtrr^,^ could 
fee nothing at all by Candle-light, but faw very well as foon^ 
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