8 4 
Part I. 
(a) Barthol, 
Hift- Ccnt.4. 
(b) Ibid. 
(c) Ibid. 
(d) Ibid. 
(t) Tab. 4. 
N. I. 
Of Fifties’. 
queftion is, Whether thefe Dogs might not have liv’d 
without the Horn. As fome Dogs that have been bitten 
by an Adder, have been obferv’d to get over their Con- 
vullions, and recover. It is alfo faid in one of the Expe¬ 
riments, that the Dog which liv’d, vomited : and in the 
other, there is nothing Did to the contrary. The queftion 
therefore is, Whether many other things, which will caufe 
vomiting, may not do as well, as this fo much celebrated 
Horn ? 
Whatever it may perform againft Poifon, it hath, faith 
Bartholhie , been very fuccefsfully ufed by Phyfitians in 
Malignant Fevers. As in that, which at Coppenhage 71 in the 
years 1652, and 1653. was very brief: and which it 
carr’d oft with very great Sweats, (a) It was ufed alfo by 
Albertus Kyperus at Leyden in the Year 1655. in the like 
Cafe, and with the like fuccefs. ( b) And that the fweating 
proceeded not rneerly from Natures own ftrength over 
the Difeafe, but as fhe was helped by the ufe of the Horn 5 
feems probable from what Bartholhie further faith, (c) 
That a fcruple or 3 P hereof being given m Cardum-Water, or 
other convenient Liquor, caufeth a free and copious 
fweating, even in thofe that arc not ufed to fweat, except 
with much difficulty. 
Heretofore, the chief Bifhops in Denmark, ufed to make 
their Epifcopal Staffs of thefe Horns, (d) The Natives of 
GreenlandyevA other Places where the Sea-Vnicorne is taken, 
arm the fharp ends of the thickeft and longeft of thefe 
Horns with Iron Beards, and fo ufe them for the wound¬ 
ing and taking of Whaley 
The Sea-Vnicorne is it felf a lefter Whale , and is that Spe¬ 
cies which the People of IJland. , where there are many, call 
Narwhal. The figure which Glam Magnus gives of the 
Head, is fictitious. 
A PIECE of the SEA-UNICORNS HORN. 
The SAW-FISH. Prifth. Johnflon hath given a good 
figure (e) hereof, but without either Name or Defcription. 
And that of Wormim is defective, and in fome particulars, 
out. 
This here is a young One 5 from the end of the Saw 
to the end of the Tail, four feet. The Saw it felf above a 
foot; near its Bafis , two inches broadj at the fore-end, 
one 
