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A61885	Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected and rectified : whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject, translated out of Italian : with a brief account of those passages of the authors life ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. / by Henry Stubbe ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.; Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English.; Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559? Artiglieria. English. Selections.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.; Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.	1670 (1670)	Wing S6053; Wing S6063_PARTIAL; ESTC R21316	289,570	380

upon it with this success that immediately it spoiles the red giving it a more dirty colour ● and casts up a mucous phlegme such as I never saw in any blood upon other Essays just like what many spit and blow out of their noses in catarrhs this covers all the pottinger without any mixture of blood in it and would be white but that the subjacent blood gives it another muddy colour The blood under it was always fluid and unequally mixed with parts of a bright and blackish red Whether my ●ourney or distemper prevented that appearance in my blood I know not 9. I had a Patient there which had unknowingly taken much of Mercurius dulcis in pills at London to her great pre●udice several ways and though she had taken golden-bullets and u●ed other means to discharge her body of that troublesome Inmate yet found little benefit At the Bath I let her blood and to try an Experiment I cast a Guinny into one of the middle Pottingers as she bled I could observe no difference betwixt the blood preceding and that therein but in the afternoon I came and went to that pottinger which had the most florid and best coloured blood and searching there found my gold and that stained with white spots from the Mercury ● on the lower side Whether the separation of the Mercury or some other efficacy in the Gold of whose power in such cases I can give good instances caused that difference in the bloods I cannot tell having never tried it since Being not well at Warwick ● by reason of a violent defluxion into the Glandules of the Throat I caused my self to ble●d Octob. 20. 1. I took six drams of spirit of Harts-horn not very well rectified nor clear of colour and put it into a crystal-glass and bled thereupon about half an ounce of blood it turned of a dark red pres●●●ly inclining much to black though as it stood or as it was held on one ●ide you might perceive a lighter but not florid red at the sides It seemed fluid for two dayes but as ● poured it out it appeared to be very Gelatinous and of colour like that which is become sanious and degenerated into blackishness with keeping 2. I bled upon the same liquor of Salt-peter about half an ounce of blood upon four ounces of liquor at first the blood did turn on the surface to a bastard-scarlet which is an effect ●very thing of Nitre mixt with blood so produceth afterwards the whole blood sunk to the bottom the upper part being all of one colour and consistence such as is observed in the Serum of the blood sometimes when the supernatancy is whitish and not transparent Being poured from the blood I found that coagulated into a mass which was all of a very natural red all over only spotted in many places underneath with black spots The concretion was so brittle that it would not hang together nor endure any light pressure but as it were melted and seemed gelatinous 3. I bled upon a Solution of the Alcali of Nitre it appeared upon the first mixture like bastard-scarlet then the blood sunk to the bottom the top being transparent yet of the colour of High-countrey-white-wine the bottom seemed redder then that of the former the limpid liquor being poured out seemed all gelatinous and had incorporated with it the serous part of the blood the red at the bottom was fluid and not tenacious but of the consistence that blood is of when it is hot and newly received in a vessel out of the veins N.B. After I had poured out the blood and mixtures out of the several glasses and that the glasses had stood a while I observed that that of the raw Liquor of Nitre which remained in the bottom did turn of a most beautiful red as ever I saw in any thing but that with the spirit of Harts-horn or Solution of Alcali c. did not vary after two days all the remains of blood in the several glasses turned blackish and sanious only that with the raw liquour altered not 4. I bled upon the liquors of Salt-peter which had passed the ashes and on that which had never passed the ashes both were of the same blackish and sanious colour after the first bastard-scarlet was past both had on the top a certain cremor which being cast into the fire discovered it self to be nitrous both of them though they were of su●h a dirty red inclining to black yet were they of one consistence from top to bottom all fluid nothing gelatinous nor any one part blacker or redder then the other Which is very much considering the difference of the two Liquors 5. I bled upon the unctuous Mothers of Salt-peter which turned at first to a bastard-scarlet the blood did never mix with the Mothers nor otherwise ting their colour then as it cast a shadow by its innating on the surface of them It coagulated on the top of the Mothers being of colour all thorough exactly like to Ocher the concretion was a quarter of an inch thick a firm mass to se● to like so much bees wax cast into a cake I took it up in one mass with my knife but trying its tenaciousness I found it as brittle as most short cakes are Upon the surface there was an appearance of certain striae which might be saline All the blood did not coagulate so but underneath there was a quantity which in the glass was of equal dimensions with the other mass it was of the colour of Oker and fluid and would not mix with the Mothers at all I took of the mass and tried to burn it in an arched fire twice or thrice it boyled and bubled up upon the fire-shovel like impure Niter and so burned with a flashing as if it had been most of it Peter it never came to flame as blood doth usually only one blaze as it were always hovered over it for a moment or two not being continued to the body otherwise then by a parcel of smoke issuing out them 6. I took also two pottingers of blood the first and the last of the blood I took away there was no difference in the blood of one and the other the coagulated mass well-coloured of a good consistence less of that black or melancholick crastament then is commonly found the Serum well coloured of tast brinish I placed it in an arched fire it rose up with a globous intumescence but crackled not so much as at Bathe though very much and like a bay-leaf it burned with a continued vivid and lasting flam● I suffered a potti●ger of the same blood with which this last Experiment was made to stand ten days or more in which time it was quite dried up into a hard fryable mass the top of which was almost as black as Ink the bottom having somewhat of a dark red in it I cast a piece of it into a quick coal-fire therein it crackled like unto a bay-leaf but burned with a

ounces of Ashes Salt-Petre wil leave None And the common assertion of our English Gunners about the Goodness of Petre is If it be laid on a board and a coal put to it and it burne into the board and leave nothing but a black colour and rise with a long flamed ventosity and exhalation it is well refin'd But since th● observations of Scaliger those other Artists of unquestionable credit and my own Experience teach me that the quantity of what remaines after the deflagration of Nitre depends upon its impure and Saline mixtures and that pure Nitre burnt openly leaves nothing behind it I am apt to believe that either there is something in the nature of the Crucible or in the manner of burning● it in those Vessells that causeth that Phaenomenon And perhaps there is not so much of untruth upon this ground in that saying of Beguinus that he that operates well shall draw a pound of Spirit from a pound of Nitre But let us suppose that there doth remain otherwise than by accident this fixed Salt our Philosopher saith it is very unlike common Salt A doughty remarque It is very like any Alcali if it be not common Salt reduced to an Alcali though the mixtures of Allom and Vitriol may give it a little diversification sometimes But where is the improvement he promised us all this while of Manufacture of Salt-Petre Why it amounts to this Take a pound of the best purified Nitre that you can buy such as is already fit to make Gun-powder distill it with three four or five times as much potters Earth prepared in a Glass retort well luted in a close reverberatory furnace giving fire by degrees till you come to the highest which continue twenty four houres Out of one pound of Nitre thus distilled you may have four ounces of Spirit saith Mr. Thibaut But Mr. Hartman upon Crollius saith there will come out of those red Spirits but an ounce and an half or two ounces at most Having gained this Spirit let him take a pound more of as good Petre and burn it with a Coal in a Crucible according to the process of Mr. Boyle or Glauber and let him get as much fixed Salt as he can breaking his Crucible into the bargain I find that Mr. Boyle in his account of the redintegration of Nitre saith not what quantity of fixed Salt he had only that he reproduced the Petre by pouring the Spirit upon the Alcali and that he did not affuse so much of Spirit upon it as the Alcali seemed to have lost in the burning and yet not much less In another place about subordinate formes pag. 350 he saith that Nitre upon calcination leaves only a third part or perhaps more But let him get wh●t he can I assure him that the ●owler his Petre is the more he will get and having dissolved it in raine-water and filtrated it let him powre upon it the Spirit of Nitre drop by drop untill the abullition cease Then let him with patience expect for some daies the redintegration of the Nitre or if he be hasty let him evaporate the liquor away till it come to a cuticle then place it in a cool place and in one night he shall find his Petre to Crystallize Then powre off the liquor and evaporate it to a Cuticle again and so a third time till he have gotten all the Petre. Having allowed this Experiment all the advantages imaginable which is that our Operatour shall have such a quantity of fixed Salt as will redintegrate exactly his Petre which may not happen as I have demonstrated so that having calcined one pound and distilled another into Spirit he hath reproduced now one compleat pound of Petre And that this Petre is as effectuall for Gunpowder as our common Salt-Petre which yet is an Experiment our Inventors and Improvers give no account of Mr Boyle saith his was more acid then Salt-Petre is usually and what alteration that Superfluous Spirit adhering is to the Crystalls may produce I know not Glauber proceeds to dissolve again and filtrate his regenerate Nitre and then saith Quicquid post operationem Superfuerit in arenâ per evaporationem donec cuticula appareat rursus distillandum et in ●rigore in Crystallos redigendum est quae ut vulgaris Sal-Petre in usum adhiberi possunt And saith that if you will again calcine one part and distill another and reproduce Petre you shall have more pure Petre than ever and which will perform admirable effects in Physick and Alchymistry Granting I say our Operator all this happiness I desire to know where is the great improvement in the Art of making Salt-Petre How much Cheaper will this be afforded then that which is usually sold How much more Effectuall will the powder be which is to be made out of it Will a Thimble-full serve to charge a Culverin Or if there be requisite as much to the charge as of common powder will the force be such that Each Bullet of a Culverin or Canon shall do execution at the Tex●l Algiers or Candia Can you dispatch with a pocket-pistoll from Arundell house the boldest pyr●te within the Straights Or in fine will this Powder last for ever without any decay and by its durableness countervaile the charge and Extraordinary trouble in the making I cannot find a word of all this nor any thing but what will convince any man that to make Salt-Petre is but to loose his time instead of improving the Manufacture I heard that Some of the Society had a great mind to work Silk into Hats which project though the Hatters laughed at yet to satisfie them tryall was made and for twenty shillings they had a Hat made but it proved so bad that any one might have bought a better for Eighteen pence I shall do Mr. Henshaw a courtesy and tell people besides the pretty curiosities observed by Mr. Boyle that will all this trouble and cost though they got never the better Petre yet Glauber tells you this is the only way for any man to see the true signature and rightly-shaped crystalls of Nitre they will be all as white as Snow long slender Sexangular and so smooth that nothing can seeme more polished and so discover that signature which God and Nature endowed Salt-Petre with Si rectè operatus fueris omnes Crystalli nullis exceptis erunt in longitudinem aequalem directae et Sexangulae sine ullâ asperitate et Scabritie quae vera et genuina Salispetrae rectè et probè purgati Signatura exis●it And is not this a considerable improvement in the Art of making Salt-Petre to produce such beautifull Crystalls to shew the true figure into which that Salt naturally doth Crystallize Some have represented the naturall figure of that Salt to be Cylindricall and I have by me some exact and large Cylinders into which it did Crystallize but not from the Salt-Petre works some have ascribed to

Bath into a lacteous colour and opacity insomuch that it represented an Almond-milk and after a time there precipitated to the bottom an ins●pid Magistery resembling Burnt Harts horn finely powdered the precipitated powder was more copious in the affusion of the spirit of Sal Armoniack then that of spirit of Harts-horn and the former in that mixture lost its urinous smell and made no unpleasant but an unctuo●● soft emulsion●like dri●k which the other retained Not a man of them ever tried whether the several Bath-water would coagulate milk which I tried first and found that the Kings-Bath water makes Posset with a soft cu●d and whitish posset-drink which will not become clear the Cross-Bath makes an hard curd a clean but whitish-posset-drink the Pump●water of the Cross-Bath which ariseth from the neighbouring hot Bath yields an hard curd a clear and very green posset-drink which being drunk by a woman that gave suck bred a great deal of milk more then fennel●posset-drink and made her break abundance of winde which those usually do that drink the Bath-waters And I believe this way of giving the Bath-waters might be no small improvement of Physick were those courses taken there and that method which those that understand the ancient and modern Bathes and waters that are drunk might easily pitch upon but this is above the reading of our Comical Wits I could find no grounds to believe there was any sulphur or bitumen in the Baths but rather some odd Alcali mixed with the vitriol of Iron ● I extracted the Salts by evaporation of two gallons of the Cross-Bath-water and having reduced them to three quarts I set it to shoot but there was no appearance of salt-peter at all then I evaporated it to three-pints but still neither salt-peter or any other salt appeared then I evaporated it quite away and then I had about two ounces of a dark-coloured salt which at first resembled cream of Tartar somewhat in taste but having lien longer on the tongue it resembled very much the Vitriolum Mortis with some more Alcalisate taste I performed the Operation both in Iron and Glass vessels with little difference of the taste or quantity of salt some of the said salt dissolving into a moisture in the air did eat off the writing upon such papers as it fell and turned the paper yellow all over and rotted it I made a Lixivium with the Cross-Bath water and evaporated that thinking that if there were any unctuous matter in the water it might hinder the discovery of the Nitre in its shooting but neither could I finde any thing of Nitre this way but still there was a taste of ●he Vitriolum Mortis in the salt and 〈◊〉 Mr● 〈◊〉 a Practitioner there assured me that he had known the Bath●water drink and to have tinged the 〈…〉 cannot avow the truth of that I inquired about 〈◊〉 truth of what Dr. Mearn had writ about the Stone he took up● upon Lands-down which being infused in water produced a resembling heat and taste to what is in the Bath 〈…〉 Maplet an inquisitive and learned Physician there who was with Dr. Mearn then and had some of the mineral stone assured me it was a lime●stone so did Mr. Chapman an observing Apothecary there who likewise saw the Stone and tasted the infusion In fine where Dr. Mearn took up that Stone any man may take up ● thousand they not being east out of the Earth but dropped out of the lime●carts which pass that way into Bathe ● the Kills being thereabouts The stones in the bottom of the Cross-Bath many are of reddish rusty colour others green but concerning the Batthe I may next Summer during my stay there in the midst of Iune and Iuly if God gi●e me life and health make a further Narrative I only mention on this to prevent the Virtuosi from usurping upon my discoveries and intendments Yet to do them some justice I was told that in some of their Transactions they have this observation about Bathe that if any person that is drunk go in there the Bath will make him sober If any that is in the Bath drink freely there it will cause him to be presently drunk with less drink by far then if he were out of it This report is worthy of our Philosophers and advanceth their intelligence above the credit that Aristotle and his Hunters deserve The first part is defective for it should have been added that the drunk person must sit still and sweat soundly if he stir up and down or swim he shall be more sick then if he had never come in The second part is notoriously false and all the Bath-Guides and others that have tried it avow that 't is usual for the Townsmen to sit some hours and drink in the Parlour of the Queen●-Bath and never be drunk and they say a man that sweats there shall bear much mo●e drink then if he were out of the Bath which I thought rational and agreeable to what I had observ'd in the Indies where men sweat and have more drink then in England and stronger But I come now to that Case for which I adde this Discourse and that is Observations upon the mixture of the Bath-water and other Liquors with blood and the Phaenomen● thereupon which though I might reserve for that other discourse of mine about Phlebotomy yet I will oblige my Reader with some of those Curiosities here especially since it will give him occasion to reflect how facile it is to multiply such Experiments and how negligent they are who pretend to be the grand Observators of this Age. When I went to make use of the Bath amongst other Prepar●tives thereto which are better taken upon the place then at a distance I caused my self to be let blood and being willi●g to improve that occasion as well for my instruction as health I c●used several Venice-Glasses to be filled with several liquors each liquor amounting to some three ounces and into each glass I suffered to run as much as half an ounce of blood or little more taking no other measure then that the whole liquor seemed of a deep blood red The Phaenomena thereupon were these ensuing● being observed presently after I had bound up my arm and was in condition to write 1. That Glass which contained the spirit of S●l Armoniack drawn the Leiden-way kept of an equal consistence from top to bottom being of a deep red and not ●ransparent li●e Tent-wine 2. Into two several Glasses I had dissolved the Salts of Ash and Wormwood half a dram in three ounces of water the solutions of these two Salts shewed no difference at all the top after some space was of a florid red such as is visible in watrish blood for about a quarter of an inch the bottom was of a more dark red and resembled Tent-wine 3. A fou●th Glass held Oleum Tartari per deliquium the blood and that liquor did not first mix but were a● two distinct liquors

notwithstanding that the blood had streamed into the Glass After a while the blood and oyle mixed together and it all became of a deep-red from top to bottom the surface only was transparent and of a brighter red as that of the other Alcalisate Liquors but not so far downwards● the rest was as Tent-wine 4. I dissolved half a dram of All●m in three ounces of water and upon bleeding thereupon all the crimson of the blood was immediately destroyed and it became almost as black as Ink after a little space towards the surface it cleared up there were certain bubbles on the top that continued the redness 5. Another Glass held a quantity of the Kings-Bath water the blood that did stream into it appeared of a dark red but transparent as deep Bourdeaux wine shews a little below the surface it was deeply red not transparent but like Tent wine 6. The Cross-Bath altered lit●le from the Kings-Bath saving that the transparency of the surface extended it self downwards to a greater profundity then the other 7. A Solution of half a dram of Sal prunellae yielded a blood on the surface like to that of Salt of Wormwood but not to so deep a descent otherwise it was of the colour and consistence of Tent wine After they had stood in the window about five houres I returned and observed these Phaenomena 1. That with the spirit of Sal Armoniack continued like Tent-wine only the uppermost part of it to the thickness of a barley-corn was diaphanous as deep Bourdeaux-wine 2. That with the Sal prunellae coagulated into a Mass shrunk from the sides of the Glass and sunk to the bottom leaving them super-natant water of a pale citrins colour the Mass it self being of a florid red on the surface and of a deep red not blackish to the bottom that I could perceive 3. That with the Cross-Bath water changed not but seemed thick as Tent-wine the upper part being diaphanous and like deep Bourdeaux-wine 4. That with the Kings-Bath water changed not only the diaphanous surface extended not it self downwards so far as the other Bath-water did 5. The Solution of All●m contin●ed all fluid and black no c●agulated mass therein but the bubbles had lost their crimson-colour and were become cineritious 6. That with the Salt of Wormwood resembled deep Bourdeaux wine but was less diaphanoux a little below the surface The surface extended downwards to the length of a barley●corn with a perfect transparency 7. That wherein was the Sal fraxini was diaphan●●s to the bottom no innatant filaments or coagulated mass in it But the surface to the length of a barley-corn was like decayed Claret made with a mixture of white and red wine the residue was deeper like that of Bourdeaux 8. That with the oleum Tartari per deliquium was diaphanous to the length of a barley-corn and of the colour of Bourdeaux wine the lower part un-coagulated and like Tent●wine 9. It is to be noted that the reflexion of the Glasses in all the Liquors they being held up to the light except the spirit of Sal Armoniack did create a corona of several colours mixt with green blew and so as not one resembled the other That with the oleum Tartari per deliquium resembled the blew in Bourdeaux wine with an eye of green I had forgot to relate how I kept some of the blood in a separate Pottinger and it seemed excellently well coloured when it coagulated● the top was of a due red the bottom blackish red the serum of a due transparency and proportion and not tinged to citrine colour and coagulated all as the white of an egge over a gentle fire I poured also upon the blood in two other Pottingers upon the one spirit of Harts-horn on the other spirit of Sal Armoniack but not much perhaps a dram or more that with the spirit of Harts-horn at first seemed more florid then that with the spirit of Sal Armoniack both coagulated into Mass●s after a while and were then both of one colour on the surface but that with the spirit of Sal Armoniack coagulated its Mass so as to break from the sides that with the spirit of Harts-horn did not break from the sides whether the blood of one and the other might differ I know not but both immediately followed one the other That blood which had nothing mixed with it after coagulation differed not from the other two though they were covered over with the spirits as soon as they wore taken and that exposed only to the Air. After a while upon the surface of that with the Kings-Bath-water there was a kind of fatty crem●r which covered the whole surface and so on that with the Queens-Bath-water the others had none at all On Munday after dinner the next day after I had bled● I came to observe again and found 1. That with the Sal fraxini to be more and more diaphanous resembling Bourdeaux wine that with the Sal abscynthii less diaphanous but red still 2. I observed the Solution of Allom ● and however it looked black yet being held in a clear light one might discover in it visible appearances of a deep red I poured on it some spirit of Sal Armoniack to see if it would restore the colour but in stead of that the liquor coagulated presently into little massula or flakes resembling raw flesh when the blood is washed out 3. There was no alteration in that with the spirit of Sal Armoniack 4. That with the Queens-Bath-water continued more diaphanously red towards the top but that with the Kings-Bath-water did not lose its redness though it were not diaphanous near the surface 5. Of the two Pottingers in which were the spirits of Harts-horn and Sal Armoniack though both were coagulated yet that with the spirit of Sal Armoniack was the most florid 6. That with the Oleum Tar●ari per deliquium continued red but lost its diaphaneity at the top almost quite 7. That with the Sal prunellae after the coagulated Mass had subsided had on the top of it in the middle of the Glass to the bredth of six-pence a concrete gelly exactly resembling that of the clearest Harts-horn not boyled up to its greatest heighth from hence protended certain filaments with which it was fastned to the mass of blood which was buoyed up thereby so that it touched not the bottom the jelly was insipid and stuck to my finger when I touched it whether that little which did so adhere took off from the equipollency of the two bodies or whether I broke casually some of the protended filaments or from what other cause I know not but after a while the Mass sunk quite to the bottom and drew the gelatine below the surface of the water 8. Upon the pouring out of the blood that with the Queens-Bath water happened to seem of a pure Claret like Bourdeaux wine no setling or floating filaments but something red which resembled exactly

to that of red Currants which rendred the one half of it opacous it was no way dis coloured nor unequally mixt the spirit of Sal Armoniack being poured on it did render it fluid presently and transparent Having occasion after some weeks stay at the Bath to ride in extream hot weather above 200 miles in a few days and being tired with watching and the journey and being wet very much with a great shower of rain at my return I went immediately into the Cross-Ba●h for half an hour to prevent any inconveniences that might befal me upon such travel but at my coming out of the Bath I felt so violent a defluxion into my throat and the adjacent Glandules that I apprehended some danger of a Squinoncy which yet I avoided by bleeding purging and other means together with the use of the same Bath after all when I was to bleed I was willing to try some further Experiments in Liquors different from the former and the Observations I made were these 1. I caused two veins to be opened in the left arm at once and received one Pottinger out of the Mediana and the other out of the Cephalica my intent in that was to observe as I had done once before in my self whether the blood of two veins in the same arm would yield different b●ood if so then I thought that it might not be indifferent in what vein a man bleeds though they all arise from one trunk of the vena cava and that we might justly have regard to those cautions of our observing Ancestors not to bleed those veins promiscuously but some in one case and some in another I was confirmed in those sentiments by the Phaenomena I met with a second time in the trial as other observations have satisfied me about the doctrine of revulsion and its truth Having taken one Pottinger out of the Mediana and another out of the Cephalica I stopped the Mediane and continued to bleed into the liquors out of the Cephalick In the first issuing out of the two bloods I could finde no difference in the colour or consistence but after standing three or four houres that of the Mediane had much less of Serum in it the Serum thereof seemed Limpid in the Pottinger but that of the Cephalick was citrine coloured that of the Mediane somewhat of a volatile saline pungency upon the tongue different from the taste which the other Serum had that being very salt that of the Mediane had a blewish Gelatine gathered upon the top of the condensed mass of blood the other had none but was of a f●orid red on the top After two days I came to look on them again and upon turning the coagulated mass of blood in the pottinger that of the Mediana had much more of black towards the bottom then the other and also a thinner surface of red then that of the Cephalick 2. To carry on the Experiment of mixing several liquors with blood I bled into some ounces of Aqua mirabilis which grew deep coloured almost unto the top which was transparent and of the colour of Mant-wine almost after some houres the Liquor became of a bright beautiful ●laret-colour almost unto the bottom where there was an opacous dark-red setling with an enaeorema of contexed ●ilaments pretended to the top The Wasps flocked to that glass in great numbers and drowned themselves in it not medling with any other of the subsequent glasses After two days was little changed only the beautiful Claret was somewhat darkned 3. I bled upon some ounces of Treacle-water which turned as black as Ink presently but continued the blood perfectly fluid The red was so destroyed that the Aluminous Solution did not equal it there not being upon inclination of the glass the least sign of any incarnadine and so it continued for two days no variation happening 4. I bled upon some ounces of Cinnamon-water which turned of a pale red is I held up the glass to the light it seemed almost to the top opacously red as Tent●wine but if viewed otherwise it se●med of a paler red approaching to bastard-scarlet After a while it seemed as if all the blood were coagulated into one mass from top to bottom subsiding a little within the tinged Cin●amon-wate●● Upon agitation and stirring with a knife it appeared that th● ●ibres of the blood were so destroyed that this mass was no coherent thing but broken into little massulae or parcels of a pale red such as the subsiding curds are in whey After two days I viewed it and found the Phaenomenon of the whole Glass to look cherry-coloured but the incoherent massulae were of a pale red 5. I bled into some ounces of Aqua Bezoarticae that did coagulat● with the blood ● so that● it all fell in one incoherent mass towards the bottom but wheth●r there hapned to be a greater proportion of blood in the glass or for some other cause the coagulated blood filled almost all the water much beyond what we observed in the Cinnamon●water the consistence of the one and the other massulae were like the curds in whey these were of a pale red retaining to whitishness and so it continued two days the small quantity of water appearing in it giving no opportunity ●or further Observations 6. I bled upon some ounces of Nan●es-Brandy it gave us a more tenacious curd then the former of a pale red but the mass and liquour was opacous towards the bottom so as to appear like Tent-wine in what light soever I placed it After two days that of the Brandy which was fluid the curd not being answerable to the Aqua Bezoartica was of a pretty florid red the coagulated mass was of a brick colour 7. I bled upon some ounces of Anise seed water drawn from the grounds of beer it yielded a mixture of a deep bl●od red from top to bottom somewhat transparent The mass coagulated from top to bottom the curd was of a deeper red then the others and of such a tenaciousness as is to be found in the foft curd of possets After two days it turned bl●ckish the coherent curd● being of a little lighter red 8. My indisposition and other cares permitted me not to pros●cute these Experiments as I did the other but one curiosity more possessed me to put two drams of spirit of Harts-horn into a pottinger and to bleed thereupon to see if it would alter the Phaenomenon from what it is if the spirit of Harts-horn be poured on the blood I did so and I found at this time that it kept my blood from coagulating into such masses as otherwise it would but the blood turned blackishly-red and in it there was observed a crimson gelatine which run off the knife as jelly of red currants would when beginning to cool After two days it continued still fluid but blackish I have sundry times tried that way of putting spirit of Harts-horn into the pottinger first and then caused them to bleed