


Led. with feveral Menstruums. 353 
able fault, for the Apothecary, or any Perfon, to fubftitute the one for 
the other: unle(s he will take tev times as much, or ten times as little 
of the one, as he would havedone of the other : if that will ferve turn. 

51. §. The Stowes already mentioned, (except the great Stomach- 
tone are ordinarily generated in the bodies of Avimals. Ibave one 
Inftance more of {ome other Stoves which are extraordinary. In the 
City. of Hereford lives a Maid, who often voids thefe Stoves, and in 
the fpace of fome years laft paft, hath voided feveral pounds, of fe- 
veral Colours and Sizes, not only per vias urinarias, but alfo by vo- 
mit, and by ftool. The firft mention made to me of them, was by 
Mr. Diggs,a worthy Gentleman of that City, as a thing that was there 
much wondred at. And fome of them, upon my defire , were fent 
me by Mr. Wellington, an Apothecary inthe fame place. I have 
tryed what feveral acid Menfiruums will work upon them; and find, That 
with Oyl of Vitriol, and efpetally with Spirit of Nitre the great ones make 
a very quick and confpicnous Effervefcence. But the finall ones, neither 
the white, nor the grey, make any Bullition inthe leaf? : for in truth, they 
are no other but little Pebbles-and Grit-ftones. 




















52: §. This being confiderd, and the various colours and mixture 
of any one of the great Stoves, being well obferved 5 it feemeth plain, 
That although the be fomewhat old (above thirty years ) yet may the 
have akind of parent, or difeaféd Appetite to Stones, Bones, Wood- 
aes, Tobacco-Pipes, Chalk, and fuch like things 5 which fometimes 
{wallowing in little Jumps, fometimes grofly, or finely ground betwixt 
her teeth; they are in her Stomach and Bowels, more or fewer of them; 
cemented together, either with a pituitons, bilious, or fome other more 
or leG glutinons fubftance. And that by virtue alfo of the faid Cement, 
or any of the faid, or other like alkalizate Bodies, the greater Stones, 
which confift of thofe partly, do make an Efférvefcence with acid Li- 
quors. Thus far of Inffances upon the parts of Animals. 1 fkall elofe 
with fome Corollaries deduced from the whole. 










53. §. And firft, fince we find, that amongltall the Mez/luums we 
have made ufe of, Spirit of Nitre, or any very Nitrous spirit, is the 
moft wniverfal diffolver of all kinds of Animal Bodies 5 the beft difol- 
ver of many others both Vegetable and Mineral, and the only diffolver 
of fome: Hence it is probable, That the great ftomachich Menftruum, 
which either difolves, or opens almoft all Bodies which come into the 
Stomach, is a kind of Nitrous Spirit. 














54. §. Again, Spirit of Nitre being a fubalkaline Acid, and work- 
ing mote evidently upon Azinzal bodies, than other fimpler Acids do, 
which yet are as firomgs It hence follows, That moft of the Sults of 
Animals axe fubacid Alkalies. How far this conclufion may further in- 
ftruét us, I thall have occafion to fhew in another Difcourfe. 


35+ §. Laftly, there being fo many, fay twenty or thirty degrees, 
from the floweft to the moft vehement, in the Bullition of mixed Bodies 5 
it feemeth, That Fermentation it felf, as to the formal notion of Ue is 
no: ing’ 


















