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reumatick reddifh Liquor, of a Tafte fomewhat 
acrid and pungent, very acid and auftere, and alfo 
faline *, one Ounce and one Drachm of red Liquor, 
both acid and alkaline urinous, and impregnated 
with a volatile urinous Salt *, one Ounce and four 
Drachms of Oil, as well thin or effential, as thick, 
of the Confiftence of an Extradt. The black Re- 
fidue weighed four Ounces : Which, being perfect- 
ly calcined, left one Ounce, one Drachm and twelve 
Grains of whitifh Afhes ; from which were got, 
by Lixiviation, three Drachms and twenty four 
Grains of fixt Salt merely alkaline. The Lofs of 
Parts in Diftillation was three Ounces and three 
Drachms : In Calcination, two Ounces, fix Drachms 
and fixty Grains. 
The Leaves of Marum turn blue Paper red. Be- 
ing diftilled when they are dry with a large Pro- 
portion of Water, like other aromatick Plants, they 
yield a fubtile and extremely penetrating effential 
Oil. They contain an effential tartarous Salt *, and 
befides, a copious, fine, volatile Acid, and a mo- 
derate Portion of alkaline urinous Salt, joined with 
a large Quantity of acrid aromatick effential Oil. 
Whence arifes a Compound not unlike a Mixture 
confifting of a dulcified acid Spirit and a volatile 
urinous aromatick Spirit. 
The Smell of Marum is fo wonderfully agree- 
able to Cats, that when it is planted in Gardens it 
allures them from all Quarters of the Neighbour- 
hood to the Place where it grows, and renders them, 
as it were, inraged, and adluated by a venereal 
Fury •, infomuch that they tear and knaw it with 
their Mouths, roll themfelves about upon it, flabber- 
ing it all over with their Spittle, and fometimes pol- 
luting it with their Seed *. Upon this Account it 
* Mr. Ray, in his Catalog. Cantab, obferves that the Mentha 
felina, or Catmint, has much the fame furprizing Influence upon 
thefe Creatures. 
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