“ Touching the Exterior part of the Brain (called by Anatomists Cerebri Cortex) he first inquires into the Nature of i'ts Substance, and finds it a Congeries of Glanduls, more conspicuous to be Inch in boyled than in crude Brains, and most discernable in Fishes and Birds: Where he alledges an Observation of a Stone found in the Brain, which was fashioned like the fruit of Mulberrys, conglobated and made up of many final kernels or grains, of ash-color, probably thus form'd by the petrified Cortex of the Brain, and so retaining the natural Shape of the Glanduls thereof. ”

“ On this ground it seems probable, that drawing Sap constantly from trees every year, will not hinder their growth in body, branches, leaves, nor fruit, to any great prejudice; for, pulsion will still supply juice into the emptied pores, till their capacity be filled. ”

“ But this is left to farther tryal; as also, Whether the sap in trees, e.g. in Maples, will not run some dayes sooner at the roots, than at body and branches; as they also run at roots some dayes longer than at body and branches.
To the 13th.As plenty of Rain can cause no more plenty of Sap than the pores of the root, body and branches will admit; which must stay some time to be digested, and converted into nourishment: So too much cold rain may by over-cooling hinder the Sap, by abating from the degree of heat necessary to pulsion of Sap into the root, and to the digestion in the tree ”

“ That the whole body of the Spleen, however it may seem to be a substance made up of concreted blood, yet is indeed a complex of Membranes, fashion'd and distinguish't into little Folds and Cells, clearly to be seen by syringing into it store of Air by the Ramus splenicus, whereby the whole Spleen will become so turgid, as to swell into an excessive bigness ”

“ For such roots as are more outward, feed Wood, such as are inward, the Fruit; as is above supposed.
To the 18th.The Depth of Trees to be set, should never be below the reach of the Suns heat, nor the goodness of the mould, and rather too shallow than too deep; forasmuch as they are apter to sink lower, than to raise themselves upwards, if they be out of the convenient reach of the Suns heat, the cause of pulsion and nourishment. ”

“ His Kidneys cover'd with fat, and pretty sound; only in the anterior surface of them there were found some aqueous or serous (as 'twere) abscesses, whereof one was near the bigness of a Hen-egge, with a lowish water in it, having made a roundish cavity, impressed in that kidney: whence some thought it came, that a little before his death a suppression of Vrine had befallen him; though others were of opinion, that his Vrin was suppressed upon the regurgitation of all the Serosity into the Lungs. ”

“ It is possible also, that trees may grow better, and give more fruit, if the right art of drawing sap be found out for that end; as some persons grow fatter by often Bleeding. If plenty of Sap drawn from trees hinder at all, it seems probable, that it will hinder growth of fruit, leaves, or uppermost shoots in tops of trees, and yearly shoots in extreme parts. If by Observation this be verified, then hence we have a probable reason of Suckers robbing fruit, viz. ”

“ To the 17th.The arms of the roots of trees are to be cut for the advantage of their growth, according to the proportion they have to their Head and Body; or according to the design you have to encrease Wood or Fruit. ”

“ And whether, by discreet watering and manuring, Trees that bear only some years, may be caused to bear yearly, which some Fruit-trees are observ'd to do in all soils, and others in some soils, and not othersome. ”

“ TO the 11th.I add, that the Sap (e.g.) of a large Walnut in the latter season of its running, i.e. when it yields no sap any longer in the Body or Branches at any time of the day, runs longer at the roots on the South or Sunny-side, than on the North or shady side.
To the 12th.Birch-trees bored in the Spring so late, in respect both of the year and day, that they have afforded no Sap at all at the body, have been found sometime after, to have issued such plenty of juice, as hath condensed in the hole to a stiff jelly. ”

“ To the 19th.The Seeds of the Firr, Pine, &c. which bring up the shells of their seeds upon the heads of the first shoot, will either not grow at all, or difficultly, if the blunt end be put downwards, because in that posture it must turn it self, before it can emerge into the air; for the root is shot downwards at the sharp end. ”

“ And discoursing from hence of the causes, which in the Plague, &c. do coagulate the bloud, either in whole, or in part by generating Polypus's, he saith, that those causes ought to be taken from something analogous to Allum, Vitriol and the like, not from Nitee and Volatile Spirits, which should rather he used as remedies by re-fermenting and rendring fluid the bloud.
II. EPHEMERIDES MEDICEORUM SYDERUM, ex Hypothesibus & Tabulis Joh. Dom. ”

“ Of the Liver; the Exterior part of the Brain; the Kidneys; the Spleen; the Polypus of the Heart. Concerning the Liver, hefirst gives a summary Account of what hath been said of ix; then relateth what himself hath observed in that part, in all sorts of Living Creatures, finding it to have Lobes and to be a Glandul of that kind, which by Anatomists are called Conglomerate in contradistinction to the Conglobate ”

“ Ut autem, simul cum resolutione Objectionum, omnem evertam dubitandi rationem, ex admissa Prop. IIma. in forma conabor probare syllogistica, Nullam esse ratíonem Analyticam inter Circulum et diametri Quadratum: Præter Modum quippe et Figuram nil deest in hactenus à me publicatis, quin id integre demonstretur; quæ interim forma raro à Geometris exigitur. Dico itaque.
Si daretur ratio Analytica (seu ratio notis Analyticis exprimenda) inter Circulum et Diametri quadratum, tunc Circulus analytice componeretur ex Quadratis, inscripto & circumscripto. Sed posterius est absurdum. ”

“ Si igitur inter m & n fingatur æquatio; a manente quantitate indefinita; æquatico inter m & n tot habebit radices seu quantitates in quas resolvitur x, quot quantitatum, inter se diversas rationes habentium, binarii sunt in rerum natura, quæ vices quantitatum a, x, subire possunt, h. e. quæ eandem quantitatem Analytice ex se ipsis componunt eodem modo, quo eadem quantitas componitur ex ipsarum media Geometrica , & ex media Harmonica inter dictam mediam Geometricam &x, nempe ita ut compositio sit eodem modo quo Z componitur ex B & 2B: atque ex Confectario Prop. ”