Km) 
fltience upon his Difeafes and Death. He was about thiny 
years of Age, a married Man, had feveral children, was of a 
ojiddleftarure, healthful till toward the latter end ofhis time: 
Had no prominency on his left fide, more than the other 5 was 
not left banded, nor had any weaknefs on his left fide. 
Diverfe other things were obfervable as to his difeafes^ 
which are here omitted. 
SofarthisOhfervation-^ to which the Obferver adds , that 
fome like, though none fo compleatjlnftancesof inverted Bow- 
els are mentioned by the famous Bartholin in his Second Centu- 
ry of Obfervatlons,;^*29. from the hand of Monfieur Fatin A, 
i65o.at Paris\md from Signer Pietro Servioj4.i Ko^f^e: 
And that Schemkius mentions two others, /.3. Obf(). de jecore • 
one found by Gemma^ another by Jqtiit pnd.ente. 
An Account of the tm Sjorts of the Helmontian Laudanum , 
communicated to the Publ'tjber by the Honourable Roberc 
Boyle, together with the Way of the Noble Baron M- van 
Helmont ( Son to the famom Johannes Bapcifta, ) oj "^re faring 
his Laudanum. 
AS for the Helmontian Laudanum^ you may ufe your 
own Liberty in fufpefling the Receipts that goa- 
boutof it. For the name it felf feems ambiguous tome, who 
am well informed that there are two forts of the Helmontian 
Laudanum ; the one usM by the elder Helmont^thc other by his 
Son. The former was as a great Secret communicated to me 
by anexpert Chymift, fent by a German Prince to Comple- 
ment Eaptijla Van Helmont^^owe of whofe Manufcripts 
(one of which periih'd in the fire of London^) he procured to- 
gether with a way of making his Laudanum^ which, having re- 
ceiv'd from him fourteen or fifteen years ago, I carefully pre- 
pared, and thought my labour fowell recompenfed by the ex- 
traordinary Operations it had, not fo much in my hands, as 
thofe of Learned Phyficians and others, to whom I prefented 
portions of it, that I fbould have thought the Chymlft a Bene- 
faftor to Phyfic, if he would have made publique, or permit- 
ted me to pubhfli the way of making fo fuccerfu! a Medicine. 
And tho the accefs to my Laboratory was fo free to IngeVious 
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