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Led. II. 

EXPERIMENTS 
LN : 
OS ©) Rome 
OF THE . 
LUCTATION 
Arifing from the Affufion of feveral 
MENSTRUUMS 
Upon all forts of 
BODIES, 
Exhibited to the Royal Society, April 13. and 
Fune 1.1676. 

See?) H E intent of the following Experiments is two- 
may fold. The one, to be as a Demonftration of the 
Truth of one, amongft other Propofitions, laid 
down in the precedent Difcourfe of Mixture, fc. 
=) That it would be a Key to let us eafily into the 
=e) knowledge of the Nature of Bodies, 
Oy The other, and that confequently, To be as a 
Specimen of a Natural Hiftory of the Materia 
d “"" Medica : that is to fay, a multifarious Scrutiny 
into the intvinfick Properties of all thofe Materials, which have been, or 
may be ufed im Medicine: for the performance whereof, the following 
Method # exzbited as one, amongft others, neceffary to be infifted upon. 
For what Dominion a Prince hath over the Moral, that 2 Phyfician ath, 
as one of God Almighty's Vice-Roys, over the Corporeal World. Whom 
therefore nothing can more import, than a particular knowledge of the Ge- 
nius of all his Subjects, thofe feveral Tribes of Matter, Seppofed to be 
under his Gommand. 
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