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A28994	Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3990; ESTC R10015	64,874	347

Second Edition 4to Oxford 1664. The first had been publish'd 1663. Of the Usefulness of Natural Philosophy the Second Part The first Section of its Usefulness to Physick with an Appendix to this First Section of the Second Part 4to 1669. Of the Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy c. the Second Tome containing the latter Section of the Second Part 4to Oxford 1671. The First Volume of these three Books contains Five Essays The First Of the Usefulness c. Principally as it relates to the Mind of Man The Second A Continuation of the former The Third A further Continuation The Fourth A requisite Digression concerning those who would exclude the Deity from intermedling with Matter In the Fifth The Discourse interrupted by the late Digression is resum'd and concluded The Second Volume contains likewise five Essays The first Of the Usefulness c. As to the Physiological part of Physick The second As to the Pathological part of Physick The third As to the Semeiotical part of Physick The fourth As to the Hygieinal part of Physick The fifth As to the Therapeutical part of Physick in 20 Chapters The Third Volume contains six Essays The first General Considerations about the Means whereby Experimental Phylosophy may become useful to Human Life The second Of the Usefulness of Mathematicks to Natural Phylosophy The third Of the Usefulness of Mechanical Disciplines to Natural Phylosophy The fourth That the Goods of Mankind may be much increased by the Naturalists insight into Trades with an Appendix The fifth Of doing by Physical Knowledge what is wont to require Manual Skill The sixth Of Mens great Ignorance of the Uses of Natural Things An experimental History of Cold and some Discourses concerning New Thermometrical Experiments and Thoughts about the Doctrine of Antiperistasis with An Examen of Mr. Hobbes's Doctrine touching Cold a second Edition Quarto 1665. Attempts of a way to convey Liquors immediately into the Mass of Blood communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December the 4th 1665. Observations and Experiments upon the Barometer or Ballance of Air invented ditected and begun Anno 1659 communicated to Dr. Beal that continued them and mentioned in the Transactions of February the 12th and March the 12th 1666. Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by new Experiments for the most part Physical and easie occasion'd by Monsieur Paschal's Tract of the Equilibrium of Liquors and of the Weight of the Air 1666. An account of an Earthquuke near Oxford and the Con comitants thereof communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of April 2d 1666. New Observations and Directions about the Barometer in the same General Heads for a Natural History of a Country great or small communicated in the same The Origine of Forms and Qualities illustrated by Considerations and Experiments in two Parts 8vo 1666. A way of preserving Birds taken out of the Egg and other small Eaetus's communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of May the 7th 1666. An Account of a new kind of Baroscope which may be called Statical and of some advantages and conveniences it hath above the Mercurial communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of July the 2d 1666. A new Frigorific Experiment shewing how a considerable degree of Cold may be suddenly produced without the help of Snow Ice Hail Wind or Nitre and that at any time of the year communicated in the Philosophical Trasnactions of July the 18th 1666. Tryals proposed to Dr. Lower for the improvement of transfusing Blood out of one live Animal into another communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 11th 1666. Free Considerations about Subordinate Forms being an Appendix to the Origine of Forms and Qualities published last year and reprinted with this 1667 in 8●o A Letter to the Author of the Philosophical Transactions giving an Information of some Experiments which he had made himself several years ago by injecting acid Liquors into Blood upon the occasion of those communicated by Signior Fracassari in a Letter written from Oxford October the 19th 1667. New Experiments concerning the Relation between Light and Air in shining Wood and Fish in a Letter from Oxford to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of January the 6th 1668. A Continuation of the same Letter in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 10th 1668. A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical touching the Spring and Weight of the Air and their Effects The first part With a Discourse of the Atmospheres of Consistent Bodies Oxford 1669. An Invention for estimating the Weight of Water with ordinary Ballances and Weights in the Phylosophical Transactions of August the 16th 1669. Certain Philosophical Essays and other Tracts a second Edition with a Discourse about the Absolute rest of Bodies Quarto London 1669. The first Edition had been published Anno 1662. New Pneumatical Experiments about Respiration upon Ducks Vipers Frogs c. communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of August 8. 1670. A Continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions of September the 12th 1670. Tracts About the Cosmical Qualities of Things The Temperature of the Subterraneal and Submarine Regions and the bottom of the Sea together with an Introduction to the History of particular Qualities 8vo Oxford 1670. Tracts A Discovery of the admirable Rarefaction of the Air even without Heat New Observations about the duration of the Spring of the Air. New Experiments touching the condensation of the Air by meer Cold and its compression without Mechanical Engines and the admirably differing extentions of the same Quantity of Air rarified and compressed Quarto London 1670. An Essay about the Origine and Virtues of Gems Quarto London 1672. Some Observations about shining Flesh both of Veal and Pullet and that without any sensible Putrefaction in those Bodies communicated by way of Letter to the Publisher of the Philosophical Transactions in the Transactions of December the 16th 1672. A new Experiment concerning an Effect of the varying Weight of the Atmosphere upon some Bodies in the Water the Description whereof was presented to the Lord Broncker Anno 1671. Suggesting a Conjecture that the Alterations of the very Weight of the Air may have considerable Operations even upon Mens Sickness or Health communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February the 24th 1673. Tracts Containing new Experiments touching the Relation between Flame and Air and about Explosions An Hydrostatical Discourse occasioned by some Objections of Dr. Henry Moor c. to which is annexed an Hydrostatical Letter about a way of weighing Water in Water New Experiments of the positive or relative Levity of Bodies under Water Of the Air-Spring on Bodies under Water and about the differing Pressure of heavy Solids and Fluids Octavo London 1672 1691. Essays of the strange Subtilty great Efficacy and determinate nature of Effluviums to which are annexed new Experiments to make the parts of Fire and Flame Stable and Ponderable with Experiments about arresting and weighing of Igneous Corpuscles and

a Discovery of the perviousness of Glass to ponderable parts of Flame Octavo London 1673. A Letter of September the 13th 1673. concerning Ambergreece and its being a Vegetable Production mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions of October the 8th 1673. Tracts Observations about the Saltness of the Sea An Account of the Statical Hyroscope and its Uses together with an Appendix about the force of the Air 's Moisture and a Fragment about the Natural and Preternatural state of Bodies To all which is premised a Sceptical Dialogue about the positive or privative Nature of Cold Octavo London 1674 1691. A Discourse about the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis occasionally proposed to a Friend annexed to another Entituled The Excellency of Theology compared with Natural Philosophy Octavo London 1674. An Account of the two sorts of Helmontian Laudanum together with the way of the Noble Baron F. M. Van Helmont Son to the famous John Baptista of preparing his Laudanum communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of October the 26th 1674. Tracts Containing 1. Suspicions about some hidden Qualities of the Air with an Appendix touching Coelestial Magnets and some other particulars 2. Animadversions upon Mr. Hobbes's Problemata de Vacuo 3. A Discourse of the Cause of Attraction by Suction Octavo London 1674 1691. Some Physico-Theological Considerations about the possibility of the Resurrection annexed to a Discourse Entituled The Reconciliableness of Reason and Religion Octavo London 1674 5. A Conjecture concerning the Bladders of Air that are found in Fishes communicated by A. J. and illustrated by an Experiment suggested by the Author in the Philosophical Transactions of April the 26th 1675. A new Essay Instrument invented and described by the Author together with the Uses thereof in 3 Parts The first shews the Occasion of making it and the Hydrostatical Principles 't is founded on The second describes the Construction of the Instrument The third represents the Uses which as relating to Metals are 1. To discover whether a proposed Guinea be true or Counterfeit 2. To examine divers other Gold Coins and particularly half Guinea's 3. To examine the new English Crown pieces of Silver 4. To estimate the Goodness of Tin and Pewter 5. To estimate Alloys of Gold and Silver and some other Metalline Mixtures All this maketh up the Philosophical Transactions of June 21. 1675. Ten new Experiments about the weaken'd Spring and some unobserved Effects of the Air where occur not only several Trials to discover whether the Spring of the Air as it may divers ways be increased so may not by other ways than Cold or Dilation be weakened but also some odd Experiments to shew the Change of Colours producible in some Solutions and Precipitations by the Operation of the Air communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of December 27th 1675. An Experimental Discourse of Quicksilver growing hot with Gold English and Latin communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of February 21. 1676. Experiments Notes c. about the Mechanical Origin or Production of divers particular Qualities amongst which is inserted a Discourse of the Imperfections of the Chymists Doctrine of Qualities together with some Reflections upon the Hypothesis of Alcali and Acidum Octavo London 1676 1690. This Discourse comprehends Notes c. about the Mechanical Origine and Production of Cold. Of Heat Of Tasts Of Odours Of Volatility Of Fixtness Of Corrosiveness Of Corrosibility Of Chymical Precipitation Of Magnetical Qualities Of Electricity New Experiments about the superficial Figures of Fluids especially of Liquors contiguous to other Liquors likely to conduct much to the Physical Theory of the grand System of the World communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of January the 29th 167 6 7 A continuation of the same Experiments in the Philosophical Transactions in February the 167 6 7. The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Paradoxes touching the Experiments whereby Vulgar Spagyrists are wont to endeavour to evince their Salt Sulphur and Mercury to be the true Principles of Things to which in this second Edition are subjoyned divers Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles Octavo Oxford 1680 1690. A second Continuation of new Experiment Physico-Mechanical in which various Experiments touching the Spring of the Air either compressed or artificial are contain'd with a Description of new Engines to persorm them 1680. The Aerial Noctiluca or some new Phoenomena and a Process of factitious Self-shining Substance Octavo London The Glaical or Icy Noctiluca with a Chymical Paradox founded on new Experiments whence it may be made probable that Chymical Principles may be converted one into another Octavo London 1680. Memorials for the Natural History of Human Blood especially the Spirit of that Liquor London 1684 Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies in Two Essays The former of the Porousness of Animal Bodies The other of the Porousness of solid Bodies Octavo London 1684. Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters Octavo 1685. An Historical Account of a strangely Self-moving Liquor communicated in the Philosophical Transactions of November the 26th 1685. Of the Reconcileablness of Specifick Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy to which is annexed a Discourse about the Advantages of the use of simple Medicines propos'd by way of Invitation to it Octavo London 1685. An Essay of the great Effects of Languid and unheeded Motion To which is annex'd an Experimental Discourse of some unheeded Causes of the Salubrity and Insalubrity of the Air and its Effect Octavo London 1685 1690. A free Inquiry into the vulgarly receiv'd Notion of Nature in an Essay address'd to a Friend Octavo London 168 5 6. A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things With an Appendix of some Uncommon Observations about vitiated Sight Octavo London 1688. Medicina Hydrostatica Or Hydrostaticks applied to the Materia Medica shewing How by the Weight that divers Bodies us'd in Physick have in Water one may discover whether they be Genuine or Adulterate To which is subjoin'd a previous Hydrostatical way of estimating Ores Octavo London 1690. Experimenta Observationεs Physicae wherein are briefly treated of several Subjects relating to Natural Philosophy in an Experimental way to which is added a small Collection of strange Reports in two Parts Octavo London 1691. Medicinal Experiments Or a Collection of Choice Remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared Twelves London 1692. Price 1 s. Advertisements Because among those that willingly read the Author's Writings there are some that relish those most as most suitable to their Genius addicted to Religious Studies that Treat of Matters relating to Divinity The Publisher thinks fit to gratifie them with a Catalogue of those Theological Books that pass for Mr. Boyle's because they were ascribed to him and never positively disown'd by him tho' such of them as are mark'd with an Asterisk come