Part III. Of Antimony, Mercury \ &>c. 355 
Spanijh Women rub their Eye-brows with it, to give them 
an acceptable Black, (a) 00 Amhrp- 
The Cathartic^. Property of Antimony, was firft taken others ™ 
notice of by Paracelfus. And feveral Preparations hereof 
both Cat bar tick, and Diaphoretic k> are now much cele- 
brated. Of the Virtue of it alfo taken Crude, fee the Phil. 
Tranfatt. (b) The Red Oil, called Stibij Sanguis, admirable {t?)N ' > 9 ' 
in Malignant 7J leers, (c) (c) VVecker. 
MERCURIAL ORE. Given by Mr. Oldenburge. 'Tis 
all of one colour, much like that of the Hepatic Popes 
bar, but fomewhat fadder. In the Weft-Indies, all their mZT^ 
filver is refined, or elfe melted down with Quickzfilver. (e) or Kirch. 
A Part made hereof with Gold, is fometimes ufed for gild- ^ Ind, L ^ 
ing of Brafs Veflels $ 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 Roje-water, mixed like an Oyntment5 is 
made That Paint, which is both the belt and the worn: in 
the World. 
In Medicine, the great life of Mercury is in the Lues Vene- 
rea 5 fometimes in the Cholick. and Iliac Paffion 3 and for 
Wormes , efpecially thofe fmall ones , called Afcarides 5 
againft which, if duly prepared, there is no Medicine fo 
effectual, or more fafe. Being prepared, and mixed with 
convenient Catharticks, 'tis alfo very properly us'd in divers 
Chronicle Difeafes. 
A rich piece of Native CINNABAR, from Carintbia. 
It weighs above §ij and and is entirely of a Scarlet 
colour. 
Another Piece of CINNABAR, of a Scarlet-colour 3 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 fhining black. 
Another piece, of a fhining Black, mixed with a fad Pur- 
pie. By the fame Hand. 
The beft Cinnabar in the Scbemnit^Mincs, ground with 
Oil, 
