Part III. Of Antimony, Mercury, <&>c. 355 
Spanijh Women rut* their Eye-brows with it, to give them 
an acceptable Black, (a) [tL^l^ 
The Cat bar tick Property of Antimony, was hrft taken ii <W 
notice of by Paracelfus. And feveral Preparations hereof 
both Cathartic k, and Diaphoretick, are now much cele- 
brated. Of the Virtue of it alfo taken Crude, fee the PhiL 
Tranfaft. (b) The Red Oil, called Stibij Sanguis, admirable ^ N ' * 9 ° 
in Malignant V 'leers, (c) (c) Wecker, 
MERCURIAL ORE. Given by Mr. Oldenburge. 'Tis 
all of one colour, much like that of the Hepatic k Cinna-Vr. Popes 
bar, but fomewhat fadder. In the Weft-Indies, all their 
filver is refined, or elfe melted down with Quick: filler. (?) CO' Kirch. 
A Pad made hereof with Gold, is fometimes ufed for gild- ™ And - 1 ^ 
ing of Brafs VerTels 3 which being daub 'd with the fame, 
and held to the fire, the Gold adheres, and the Mercury ex- 
hales. With this the Tin-Foile is made to flick clofe to the 
backfidesof Looking-Glaffes. Of Sublimate, Cerufs, Juyce 
of Limons, and Rofe-water, mixed like an Oyntmcnt 5 is 
made That Paint, which is both the beft and the worft in 
the World. 
In Medicine, the great ufe of Mercury is in the Lues Vene- 
rea 3 fometimes in the Cholick and Iliac Paffion 5 and for 
Wormes , efpecially thofe fmall ones , called Afcarides $ 
againft which, if duly prepar'd, there is no Medicine fo 
effectual, or more fafe. Being prepard, and mixed with 
convenient Catharticks, 5 tis alfo very properly us'd in divers 
Chronick Difeafes. 
A rich piece of Native CINNABAR, from Carinthia. 
It weighs above iij and 3>j, and is entirely of a Scarlet 
colour. 
Another Piece of CINNABAR, of a Scarlet-colour,from 
Tyrol. 
A Piece of Native CINNABAR, of a purple colour, 
almoft like that of fine Lake. Given by Mr. Olden- 
burge. 
A piece of BLACK CINNABAR. Given by Dr. Walter 
Pope, Hard and ponderous, about as big as a Lambs Heart. 
Where it breaks, of a Aiming black. 
Another piece, of a fhining Black, mixed with a fad Pur- 
pie. By the fame Hand. 
The beft Cinnabar in the Schenmitz^Mxms, ground with 
Oil 
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