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There are fome known Obfervations of this nature : but there is a4 
thor, I think, who hath giverus a ee of Experiments in = 
Subje& : The performance whereof is here intended. 
The Experiments wzay fee too numerows tobe of one make. But no 
lefea number mould have anfwered the defign of az Univerfal Survey 5 
which, though lefs pleafing, proves the more inftruitive in the end : wot he: 
ing like angling with a imgle Hooks but like cafting a Net againft a fholes 
with affierance of drawing up fomething. Befides the advantage of com- 
paring many together 5 which being thus joyned, do oftentimes, like 
Figures, fignifie ten times more, then flanding alone, they would have 
one. 
How far the Corollaries all along fubjoyned have made this good, i 
left to the Reader to judge. And ha add to them, fo many aon a 
be pleafes « for I make my own Thoughts no mans Meafure. \ 






Cre Pe 
What is generally to be obferved upon the Affufion of the 
Menftruum ; and what; particularly of Vegetable Bo- 
dics. 











°F. <P-x¢5 HE Bodies whereupon I made tryal, were of all 
A os kinds, Avimal, Vegetable,and Mineral. Amongft 
BY Vegetables, fachas thefe, fcil. Date-ftones, Ginger, 
Colocynthis, Pyrethrum, Hamthorn-flones, Staphif= 
agria, Euphorbium, the Aremle in Pears, Semen 
9 Milii Solis, Tartar, Spirit of Scuroygrafs, Spirit 
BL of Wine, Ke. ; 
Sw 2. ¢. Among{t Minerals, feveral forts of 
Earths, Stones, Ores, Metals, Sulphurs, and Salts. 
3. §. Amongft Aximals 5 fach as thefe, fel Hairs, Hoofs, Horns, 
Shells, and fhelly Infects, Bones, Flefo, and the feveral Vifcera, Silk, 
Blood, Whites and Yelks of Eggs, Sperma Ceti, Civet, Musk, Caftor, 
Gall, Urine, Dungs,; anintal Salts and Stones. 
4. §. The Liquors which I poured hereupon feverally, were thefe, 
fe. Spirit of salt Armoniac, Spirit of Heil Spirit of Niire, A- 
qua fortis, Oyl of Salt, Oyl of Sulphur, and Oyl of Vitriel ; commonly 
{fo called. : 
5. §. Inthe Mixture of thefe Bodies, two things, in general, are 
all along to be obferved, viz. Firft, which they are, that make any, 
or xo Luifation; For, as ome which feem to promife it, make none 
So, many, contrary to expectation, inake a confiderable one. 
6. $. Next, the manner wherein the Luifation is miade 5 being with 
imuch variety in thefe five fenfible Effects. 1. Bullition when the 
Bodies mixed produce only a certain quantity of froth or bubbles. 
>. Elewation when, like Pafte in baking, or Barm in the working of 
Beer, they fwell and buff up: 3. Crepitation 5 when, they a 4 
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