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many particulars in bis Hiftory of Animals ; and that for the great- 
eft part of what is true therein, he was beholden for it to Fiiher- 
inen, Hunes-menand Fowlers ; befides what he had learn'd of Flato^ 
iaftruftedby thciEgyptians. 3, That theofhraftu4 hath made no 
thorough inveftigation of any Planr,and left a very great number of 
t hem untouch't , owing alfo much of what he knew to the Egyp- 
tians. 4. That Euclidlived a while in d/Egyft, a Country much ad- 
duced to Geometry and Arithmetick : And tb^t Archimedes found 
ine.^^^/^ his famous CV^W^'^^^ exhauriendas ao[Ha^\ witnefs Dio- 
dorns Siculm, So that oar Author judges it reafonable, we fliould 
think our felves more obliged to the jirf; hve^fitors^ihzxx the Fromo- 
terspf ufeful knowledge. And as for Hippocrates and Gdle^,hG faith, 
that Cos^the Country of the former, was fonear c^^^^Z-jihatdoubt- 
lefs he thence received great advantage to his Medical knowledge; 
and that Demoeritus,h\s Mafter,whohad been long acquainted with 
^^iyp^^ queftionlefs fuggefted many things to him : That G4- 
le?f alio had lived long at Jlexandria^ and was wont to advife the 
Grecian Candidats of Phyfick to travel thither for experience. As 
for JPt demy ^ that he was no Grecian, but an Alexandrian^ or a jP^/«- 
Jlct^ and confequently of <t/Egypt. 
And feeing that Ccmwgius inveighs ivith a virulent ftyle againft 
. Hermes and Faraceljm^ our Author inquires the more narrowly in- 
to the Morals and Doflrines of Arijlotle^ fo much extoll'd by the 
faid Conringitu^ and fliews, that the former of thefe two was much 
polluted, and the latter very jejune, perfunftory, and erroneous. 
Where he takes occafion both to fliew the many falfuies delivered 
by jfri /lot le^iu hisHiflory of Animals, particularly in that of thcr 
Lj/on^ Eagle, and Crocodile^ and to reftifie the fame, efpecially in 
the Hiftory of the Crocodile ; of the Anatomy of which he here 
gives us an accurate and confiderable account. 
Again, forafiuuch as Conringim undervalues Medicines prepared 
of Minerals, our B^^mV^i^^ enumerates theDifeafes, that are not 
cured but by them, fueh as xh^ Lues venerea^ ftubborn Hypo- 
chondriacal affedlions, Epilepfies, inveterate Head-aches, latent 
AbfcefTcs in the Body, old and malign Ulcers, And Conrin- 
gius being pofitive in afferting, that no force of fire is able to dif- 
folve Gold, our Author mentions a way to perform it with a heat, 
at firfl: fcarce fenfible, which he affirms to have been experimented 
by his late Majefty of Denmark^ Frederick III :^ who commanded a 
thin plate of very pure Cold to. be ground in a mortar, until it was 
reduced 
