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and is mightily commended by them for itsVirtues, being diuretick, vulnerary, ano-dine, and good to ftrengthen the Bowels.

The Spirit of Vitriol provokes Urine, ex-cites an Appetite, and allays the burningHeat of Fevers, being given in a Cup full ofcold Water to a grateful Sharpnefs. ThisSpirit may be fweetned, digefting it with therectified Spirit of Wine, and then it may beus'd in Difeafes of the Gums and cutaneousDiftempers.

The Salt of Vitriol is endued with an e-metick Faculty; it may be given from half aDram to two Drams.

The Colcorhar, or red Earth, out ofwhich the Salt was extracted, is effectuallyus'd in a Loofnefs, Bloody Flux, Hemor-rhages and Wounds.

The ipirituous Parts of Vitriol may be eafilyagain recovered, if you expofe the Caput Mor-tuum for fbmeTime to the open Air, keeping itfrom Rain; fo that by Diftillation you maypbtain another Spirit ; but this Spirit is agreat deal fweeter and weaker than theCommon.

Pamce/fus corrects the Spirit of Vitriol, bypouring it upon the Caput Mortuum, and thenDiftilling it nine Times over, every Timepouring on more frefh Spirit ; and taking itout of the Limbtck, he puts it into a Retort,and diftills it over again with as much Spi-rit of Wine as is fufficient to make it into aPafte; this he highly commends in an Epi-lepfy, or Falling Sicknefs.

Of the Medicinal Stone 0/ Crollius.

The Stone of Crollius is made ofPomet. Englifh Copperas, White Copperas,Alum, White Pot-alhes, or Natrtimof ./Egypt of common Salt, Salt of Tartar, Saltof Wormwood, Salt of Mug wort, Salt of Suc-cory, Salt of Plantain, Salt of Arfmarr, WhiteLead, Bole Armoniack, Myrrh, Frankincenfe,Vinegar of Rofes ; of all thefein proper Do-fes, as they are fet down in Crollius, Page44Z, by the Means of Fire, is made a redStone, endu'd with very excellent Properties,as the fame Author remarks, which wouldbe too long to be defcrib'd in this Place:But as this Stone is of great Confequence,both betaufe it coils a great deal of Money,

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and becaufe few Perfons have the true Know-ledge of it, the greateft Part of the Apothe-caries fubftitute fn the Room of it the Medi-cinal Stone, defcrib'd by Monfieur Charas,and Monfieur Lemery, becaufe they can af-ford it cheaper than they who fell the trueStone of Crollius, this latter being madeof Druggs of a much lower Price, as (hallbe ftown hereafter.

Of another Medicinal Stone.

Monfieur Charas, in the 1041Page of his Pharmacopaa , de- Pomet.fcribes a Medicinal Stone compos'd ofthe Vitriol of Cyprus, Sale of Nitre, whiteLead, Al.'um, Bole Armoniack, Sandiver,Sal Armoniack, and common Vinegar ; fothat one may fee by thefe two Defcriptionsthat there is a great deal of Difference be-twixt this Stone and that of Crollius ; andthat more of this is likely to be fold for itsCheapnefs than of the other.

Of the Lapis Mirabiiis.

The Lapis Mirabiiis is (o call'dbecaufe of its great Properties, a- Pomet.bove all for the Cure of Webs andother Difeafes that happens to the Eyes ofHorfes.

This Stone is made by putting into anearthen Pot a Quantity of Whire Copperas,Alum, Bole Armoniack, Litharge, and com-mon Water, as Monfieur Solleyfel has re-mark'd in his Book, Page 86, to which theythat have Occafion may have Recourfe, aswell to know the Dofe as thofe excellentQualities, by which it obtain'd fuch a Name.

21. O/^ePyriteSj or Fire-Stone.

T'HE Pyrites, or Fire-Stone, is a Sort of■*• Marcafice of Copper, of which theymake their Copperas's or Vitriols; this Mar-cafite is weighty, of a Moufe Colour, fullof little, yellow, Ihining Spots.

There is a great Quantity of this Fire-Stone in France, efpeciaily at Pajfy near Paris.

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