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to infert feveral of them in fit places of that Hifiory, againft 
the next Edition . Here is a certain Stone, that is thought 
to be petrifyed Bone, being fhap’d like a Bone, with the 
Marrow taken out, but with a fit Menftnmn» t t found that 
1 could eafily difiblve it, like other foft Stones : and poffi" 
blj it may prove as fit as OfieocolU , for the fi me Medicinal 
UTei. 
Of the nature of a certain Stone , found in the In- 
dies, in the head of- a Serpent. 
There Was, fome while ago, fent by SirPhiliberto Vcrmtti 
from Jdva major, where he refides, to Sir Robert Moray , for 
the Repofitory of the Royal Society, a certain Stone, affirm* 
ed by the Prefenter to be found in the Head of a Snake 0 
which laid upon any Wound, made by any venomous Crea- 
ture, is Taid to flick to it, and to draw away all Poyfon.- 
and then, being put in Milk? to void its Poyfon therein, and 
to make the Milk turn blew $ in which manner it muft be 
ufed* till the Wound beclcanfed. 
The like Relations having been made, by feveral others, 
pi fuch a Stone, and fome alio in this City affirming, to have 
made the. Experiment with fuccefs, it was thought worth 
While, to inquire further info the truth of this Matter : fines 
^hichtime, nothing hath been met with but an Ioforma- 
tion,delivered by that Ingenious Tarifian> Monfieur 7 hevenof, 
in his fecond Tome ^ of the Relations of divers confiderable 
Voyage /, whereof he lately prefen ted fome Exemplars to his 
Friends in England. Ihe Book being in French, and not 
common, tis conceived it will not be amifsto inferthere 
the faid Information, which is to this effeft : 
la the Eaft indi.-f, and in the Kingdom oi^amfym china y 
there is found a Stone in the Head of certain Serpents (which 
they call bv a namefignifying Hairy Serpcnts)whkh heals the 
bitings of the fame Serpent, that elfe would kill in 24 hours. 
This Stone is round* white in the middle, and about the 
edges 
