fo great efteem, he faith, that it hath no Purging vertue at all 
in it: adding that even of All Salti, none hath more vertue 
than another, as he pretends to have fhew’d in an other Bso\ 
of his, De natura fditimy which alfo hath not been yet tranf. 
mitted into thefe parts; f 
y. He denies, what Arifiotle affuresj and what Galen faith 
to have often tryed, that the Spittle of a tafting perfon kills 
Vipers , and he laughs at many other particulars, that have 
been delivered concerning the Antipathy of Vipers unto cer- 
tain things ; and their manner of Conception and Generation, 
and feveral other properties, commonly afcribed to them; 
whichthe alledged French Author affirms to be refuted by fo 
many experiments made by this Italian Philofopher, that it 
leems to him, there is no place left for doubting,after fo au~ 
■then tick a teftimony. 
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