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reduced into a darkifii powder, which being afterwards put into 
aGlafs-retort, and driven by a ftrong heat, yielded a very red ii- 
quor, which tinged fpiric of Wine, and became a good potable 
Gold. On this occafion he relates, what himfelf hath performed 
about Gold, ^viz^ that, without the ufe of any fire, by the fole 
phlegm of common acetum^ after a previous (light circumftance, 
fwhich ye^^ien^imes not) out of very fine gold he drew a greeniOi 
Tinilure, which, if in fummer ic were left in an open glafs, would, 
upon the exhalation of the liquor,be convened into a greenifh faltg 
which convcrfion whilft it was doing, the liquor in the glafs would 
ftir up and down in a ftrange manner, fhooting corporeal rays 
downwards, long and very fine,noc unlike the rays of the Sun, only 
that chey were whitifli,and fending forth green branches upwards : 
Which fpeflacle he faith he hath often fliew'd to his friends coming 
to fee him ; that falin texture lading long^nor belngdifTolvablc but 
by violence. To this he joynshis Affertion^grounded upon Expe- 
riments,that Corals and Gems yield Salts;vvhich Comingtus dtmtth. 
Difcourfing of the vertues of Pra^parations madeof Animd fub- 
ftances,and particularly of the fftrit ofBloud^he dec!ares,that the vo- 
latil fpirits of hurnm bloud are more powerful in the curing of the 
Epilepfie,than thofe of the bioad of other animals ; refuting withal 
the aflertion of Ci;?ri/;^/W,"importing,that the Ancients did not em- 
ploy Human bloud but among their Magicks. 
Examining the €ontrover(ie,Whether the vertues of Purgatives 
or Vomitives pafs into their diftilled waters, he recitesan Experi- 
ment he made upon a Dog with the diftilled water of black HeUc- 
bore^ which was, that having given him 12 fpoonfuls of it, he did 
within 4hours vomit 4 times,and dunged twice,a!l very copioufly, 
Difcufllng the QuefHon about the Refufiiutmof jP/^^//,(which 
he feems inclined to maintain,^ he alledges, for the countenancing 
of it, the Regeneration of bodies of other kinds, and amongft them 
he takes notice of ikr<?;^f/i^r/, affirming, that that fubftance, having 
been a whole year vexed by various fires, and reduced into waterj 
turbith, andaflies, will, by the atcradionof the Salt of Tartar a- 
Biidft the flames, return to the priftin liquor : And that Lead, re- 
verberated into Mininm^ melted into glafSj reduced into a cerufSj, 
burnt roa Lytharge, in a word, tormented, torn, or burnt, as you 
pleafe, will in a trice rife again into genuin Lead, by a bare dex- 
trous application of Lixiviat Salt. 
Difcourfing of the Siimture of Vlmts^ concerning which Conrin- 
