Fart IV. Of Things relating to Chymijlry , &c. 555 
unfafe: as, for inftance, of Tartar and Wormwood 5 half a 
Scruple of the former, being as If rong as one whole Scruple 
of the latter. Of the Fixed Salt of Vegetables,fee a Difcourfe 
in the Phil. Tranfacl. N. 107, to 1 108. Of the Volatile Salt, 
il. IOI.(i2) («) Both. 
An Eajl-Indian Compofition (as it feems of Vegetables) 
called CATO. Very aftringent, and infus’d in water makes VamJcf. 
it yellow. Us’d by the Indians againft the Inflammations of 
the Mouth or Throat. 
SAL AMMONIAC fublim’d in a Sugar-Mould from 
Beds of the fame taken from a Coal-Mine near New-Caftle 
upon Tyne ; of which, fee the foregoing part of this Cata¬ 
logue. Prepar’d and given by Dr. Luke Hodgfon. 
SPIRIT of Sal Ammoniac diftill’d from the faid Salt 
mixed with Quick^Lime. By the fame Hand. 
The Parts of the Medical WATERS of SCARBROUGH, 
s Prepared and given by Dr. Witty: together with an 
account of them. But this I find not. The Preparations 
are thefe, The Phlegm, and Acid Spirit , not ftrong. The 
Sedement upon evaporation, of an afli-colour, a bitterifh 
and nitrous Taft. The Precipitate, upon the mixture of 
Gall-powder 5 black, and of little Taft. One or two Grains 
will precipitate sj out of a Gallon of the Water. The Ni¬ 
trous or Eflential Salt, as I take it, before the Precipitation 
be made. The like Salt, after the Precipitation is made. 
Thefe Salts have alfo fomewhat of a Nitrous Taft, but 
mixed with a fmatch of a Vitriolick: And the latter, I 
take notice, is figur’d into long fquare Cryftals, or little 
fquare Bars. The Black Precipitate calcin’d. The Lixivial 
Salts, made, as I take them, from the Precipitate, and from 
the fimple Sediment or Extract both before and after Pre¬ 
cipitation made: fomewhat like to that of Vitriol. 
What ever Ingredients, as Niter, Vitriol, or other known 
Salts, may go to conftitute thefe abovefaid 5 I am of Opi¬ 
nion, That the predominant is fome Metallick Principle 
different from them all. 
A Solid HERMETICK PHOSPHORUS; a mixed Mat¬ 
ter, which being expofed for about half a minute of an 
hour to the Sun, or only to Day-light, or to a bright Fire 
or Candle; will Ihine in thedark for fome minutes. Made 
by Dr. Fr. Slare, and by him given to the Royal Society, 
Z 7, Apr. 3, 
