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»ndlqee7.tng it, got out the Froth, and about 200 little Globular Storni ofseveral Srzes. He rubb’d the Slimy Froth from them, and they appeared of aduskishYdlow-Colour and Smooth. Whcn dry, they were lik cSeed-Pearl,but more smooth, and of a pcrscct Go'd-C'olour, and so continued.View’din a Mtcrofcope, they appeared Polish’d, and withou r any Rugosities.ThcFigure in most was Sphxrical; in forne a little comprefled; the Colourlike Burnißst-Gold. Ibrokeoneor two ot them with some difficulty, and Itound, by the Murofcope, that it was only a rhin Shell that was so Orient andbiighr, the inner fide ot which Shell was like Unpolish’d Gold. The inmostSubilance was like brown Sugar- candy to the naked Fye, but not so transpa-rent. The Tals was not disoernable. In Spirtt ot Vitriul they (hrunk muchand wasted, but continued their Colour, (polsibly by reason of the outwardSkin, which, itseems, in thesewasas difficult to Dissolve as in true Pearls)]Likewise Aqu* fortis would Corrode and Diflolve them tumultuoufly.

2. I did perswade my lelfat first, that these Stones were some Insects Eggs r ByDr.but alterwards, when I had read that Account of several Stones found in Ii,J 'other Ammals which Dr. Wedelius has publish’d inrthe German Ephemerides ,

An. 16 72. I was induc’d to believe them Stones indeed.

XC. I. Margareta Lausvera, nostra Concivis, modesti vivens, AnnoPeriodi fuse 21, qui Seculi fuit 1678, tempore Verno Menstruis deficienti- vüZdVy^vT-bus incidit in varios Cruciatus acerbiflimosque Dolores, hinc inde jam !"

supernas, jam infernas, jam Dextras, jam Sinistras Corporis Partes in- cZsZim. kZfellantes, variis sobito saepius ad Palmae Latitudinem erumpentibus Ve- n 5,

sicis, Limpica plenis, ardentissmeque flagrantibus, ut Ignem Sacrum sob- Pesse putares; & cito nili dissecarentur , evasit Dolor intolerabilis, men-tem que deturbans. Moxque sedatis ex una fit Eruptio ex altera parte.

In his mitigandis & curandis cum detenti in Nijocomio ClementiflinuMagistratus (Injula dictoj omnem operam cuncti navaremus, Causamtan i mali ad Acrimoniam Lymphatici Humoris singularem, & vim illi inGlandulis subcutaneis Stypticam impressam, ideoque coagulatum refluerenon potentem referentes, quaecunque Ars & Methodus docent in Demul-cendo, Dissolvendo, Avertendo & Vacuando isto Humore adhibebamus, ple-raque frustra; dum tandem ratione & analogia ducti ad Ptyalismum Mercu-rialem confugimus, cujus effectus respondit: Sicque post Octimestrem Cu-ram Mense Manio An. 1679. e Nosocomio viribus restitutis dimissa ad usumSeri Lactis CaprilliChalybeati relegebatur.

Ab hinc integre valuit ad tertiam Januarii An. 1680. omnibus Functioni-bus sois incumb: ns, qua ipso Vesicarum Eruptione iterum vexari, auxilia-tricesque ac benificas manus summi Magistratus in Nosocomio expetere esepit,qux ejusdem quinta porrectae, omnis cardo in eo versabatur, ut praecedentiMeth-do de Ptyalismo inniteremur; sed omnibus ante opus die voluit adejusmodi majorum & arduorum Remediorum usum Corpus disponere, inquod intenti non tamen mota Catharsi, fit momentanea ä Circumferentia inCentrum, ab exterioribus in ima Penetralia 15. dicti Menfis, Humorum re-ductio; subito omnes evanescunt Vesicae, adeo arcte Cuti se infigit Cuticula,

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