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affirms, that not any footftepof it is to be found in all Anti* 
quity ; our Author allcdges to this famous Antiquary feveral paf- 
fages. oMioi Diofcor ides y and Pliny, clearly evincing theniiflake 
of his Adverfary. 
Cenringim di^rmitg^ that all forts of Difeafes have been cur'd 
without Chymical remedies, our j?(?wrA/^maintains,tbac the Lh^ 
es venerea^ a conGrm'd Dropfie, and Phthyfis, and Cancer, and fe- 
veral other maladies will very hardly be cur'd by m^tx GaUnicd 
medicaments. 
It being controverted, in what fenfe the Three Principles of 
theChymifts are contained in Bodies ; our Author labours to ex- 
plain it 3 relating withal an Experiment of his own, (too long to 
beinferted here,) in which he affirms to have obtained them all 
three out of common limpid water. 
Concerning the Queftion, whether there be aflually Salt in bo- 
dies before combuftion or the operation of the Fire j Tyr.Borrichim 
endeavours to defend the affirmative ; and in the end of that Dif- 
courfc undertakes experimentally to fhew, that, without any ccm- 
buftion ataIl,Corals,Cockel-fliels,Stones,Gems,if they be ground 
to as fine duft as is poffible, w^ill, byafimple, though fomewhat 
long, decoftion in common diftilled water, yield fome true Cubi- 
cal Salt, to be feen after ^he liquor is ftrained, and abftrafled to a 
fpifficude. The Lke he affirms he hath found by Experiment in Me- 
tals, Gold it felf not excepted ; the procefs w hereof (which is by 
grinding) he defcribes at large lih. 2. 7 ; expefting the judgment 
of the Intelligent Reader upon it. After which he intimates,that 
though he could not obtainany vifibleSaltout of^/^/V^/wr, yec 
he is perfA'aded from certain effefts^ that it holds fome. For,when 
once he had crowded an oblong glafs full of thin and well-poiilht 
plates of Steel, and put to them fo much highly defccatedMercury, 
as filled up all the interfl:ices,and being very carefully fiiut,expofed 
it for three months to the Summer Sun 5 he at length breaking the, 
glafs, found, not what he looked for, to wnt, an Amalgama of Mars^ 
but what he looked not for, which was, that almoft all thofe Sreel- 
plates were feifed on by ru(l-, though immerfed in ihe very body of 
theQuickfilver ; which to him is an argument, that in it there was 
fomwhat faline but volatil,thac excited thelron to protrude the rufi. 
This faline fubftance he thinks to be wanting in no Element ; where 
he noteth^that he hath obferv'd it not only in a mans breath,being in 
winter carefully col lefled in a glafs, and by a gentle heat infpiffa- 
