ted together by a tittc Wattf and oyl 3 if you put fome 
of tfie powder of ic for a day in a glafs of water, 
ffcaking it a little at firft, a fait wili be thence obrai- 
ned, which wall alcer the freftinefs of the w^ater, and 
breed a thin cruft on its furface, as Qjick-lime fleeked 
in water will do. Eefides;, the Stones of the Human bo- 
dy do ftirnifii by fire far orherwife, than by wa!:er, ^7^. 
a third part of volatil Salt, and of a very piercing U- 
rinous fpirir, and about a fourtieth part of flinking oyl 
or fulphur; there ren^aining ^bout two thirds of Earthy 
parts, w^hichholda ^/?/V//>^/^partof fo fixt a Sak, ihat 
will bear a violent fire. 
So far the fir [I Lettei\ In the fecond and third or 
Author relateth, That a certain perfon of Normandy^ 
w^hom the new Pretender affirm'd upon founding to 
have no Stone , was cut of a Stone of three ounces 
weight ; and that he dying fome days afcer it, and be- 
ing opened , his Bladder was found not only full of ve- 
ry hard Callofities, like Ganglions about the Nerves^ 
but alfo Jumps of a white , grumous , folid and friable ^ 
matter, like white Tartar , which was as 'twere cement- 
ed upon the fcirrous fubftance of the Bladder: Btfides, 
there were faftned to the fame Bladder certain Carm- 
cles^ refembling the heart of a Pullet, large at their ^.^?'- 
fis y and by little and little growing narrower, and 
ending in a point of a frelh vermillion colour, which 
end was loofe / whereas their hafts ftuck clofe to the 
Bladder, by very many filaments , which as To many 
roots nourifli'd them, and made them look fo frefh in 
this their foyl* And what care foever he ufed in 
loofening them from thefe roots without hurting the 
Bladder , he could not compafs it ; thefe roots being 
quick and deep : yet he took' them off wifh the point 
of a Pen-knife, and put them in Spirit of Turpentine, 
vVfrere, he faith, he ftill keeps them. 
He 
