(1795 ) 
, pieces of Sk'm With a fiiarp Knife, without fetching the 
leaft drop of Blood after it, which pieces of Skin being 
no bigger than the 4th part of my Nail, I laid on Char^ 
coal, fuch as is ufed by the Gold and Silver Smiths, and 
with the help of a Pipe, I blew the flaoie of a Candle 
Yery gently upon the frriall Particles of Skin that were 
cut off, which frying in the flame, a great many Bubbles 
of Air rofe in the n ^ and at laft, driving more Fire upon 
thera^ the Skins v/ere burnt, and the Particles of Silver 
with which they were laden femain'd, being melted into 
round Globules, infoiBOch that I judged that a thoufand 
ot the fmalleft could not make one great one 3 and nar- 
rowly viewing feme of the largeft, I could fee that they 
were compofed, of abundance of fhiall Globules, which 
the Fire was not ftrong enough to diflblve into a perfefl: 
Rpundnefs y " thefe aforementiond Silver Globules 
were not fo big as to be feen with the naked Eye. I 
repeated this Operation the fourth day, after my Hands 
had been fo fltaio'd, and that with the fame fuccef^. 
I brought thefe Silver Globules before two Micro- 
fcopea, that fome others who delighted therein might fee 
/them, and fay in jeft concerning the fame, that I could 
bring Silver out of my Skin 5 but 'tis in this matter as by 
the Chymifts, who bring Gold and Silver out of that in 
which it was before 3 but to make Gold or Silver, or to 
cpcreafe it, finds no Credit with me; When I had placed 
the faid Particles of Silver before a Glafs, and had fiiew'd 
. it to a Gold and Silver Smith, I took fo much delight in 
it, that I caufed a Draught of it to be taken. 
Fig. 6. ABCDEFGHI fhews the abovementioned 
Silver Globules as they appeared thro the Microfcope, 
and as they Were Joined to one another in Melting s 
from whence appears that the Fire was not hot enough 
to form em all in one ©lobule, and in my opinion they 
^mt no bigger than one courfe Grain of Sand. 
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