“ That it hath not this or that intermediate substance, but that the Liquors, regularly come and goe to and through them in fine tubes (in such and such heaps and figures, as may make them appeare so and so form'd in several parts of the Body, where they are scituated;) As also, that the more conspicuous Vessels of the Body have other vessel, that help to makeup their Coats, and serve for the nourishment of the same, besides such, as import or export those liquors, for the conveyance of which they were designed for common use. ”

“ Now what should occasion those monstrous tumors of the whole Breasts, and that so suddenly in one night, keeps us in great suspence. There occurs nothing in this point satisfactory in the writings of Platerus, Rhodericus à Castro, Fontanus, Forestus, or any other of the Moderns, that I have seen, writing de Morbis Mulierum, suitable to what may be offer'd upon the Data of the Circulation of the Blood, the Lymphæducts, and the Vasa Chylifera Thoracica, and probably some Capillary vessels branching thence (in their progress to the Sub-clavials) through the Intercostal Muscles into the Breasts. ”

“ That the Waters, which materially make some Springs, passing underground by the veine of some Mettal, which yet is in fieri, having first taken up of an Acide Salt which is in the Earth, thereby catcheth hold on the immature Sulphur of that Mettal, and presently glides it along with it self to the Springs orifice, and from the moment of the Sulphur and Acide Salt's meeting and contact begins a mutual action and reaction upon one another which never ceaseth ”

“ First, a good quantity of Ashes, taken up in divers parts of and about Ætna; some at the top or mouth of the new made Mountain; some a mile off, some four, some ten miles, some but halfe a mile distant, and others on the skirts of the said Mount; whereof the four first were found to agree well enough with their distances, but the two last to differ much both from the former and from one another; the former 4. sorts having been found very dry like dust, but the two latter being still very moist, though in Sicily (as we are informed) they have layn exposed a good while to the hot Sun ”

“ Wherefore I thought, it might not be very un-acceptable to you, if I desired you, publickely to give notice of these Conjectures, that the Learned may reason and find out the truth of them; whence may result no few nor very unuseful discovery's for the increas of knowledge, the benefit or mankind, and the glory of the Creator of all. ”

“ A Paris, AS there are above 60 sorts of different druggs, which are ingredients of this no less difficult than famous and usefull Medicine, which was invented by Andromachus, Physitian to Nero, and as those drugs are subject to be sophisticated, and require different preparations, so there are few men, that are sufficiently skill'd to chuse aright all those ingredients, or dextrous and patient enough to prepare them well. ”

“ He takes further notice, that Opium hath not those ill qualities, which many ascribe to it, who teach, that it suffocateth the natural heat, and that these need no more than 3. graines to dispatch the lustiest man: whereas he assures, that himself hath taken 6 graines of it without having been more stupifyed by it, than he used to be ”

“ And if the greatest part of these Vessels are Arteries, or other Vessels, that immediately receive liquors from them; I may prove, I think, from another Experiment, made by Injection into a part of the Arteria præparans, before I began to expand the Body of the Testis; whereupon opening the part, which I saw discoloured, I found, that many of these Tubes had received some of the fine particles of that matter, which I tinged my injected Spirit with.
And to prevent another Objection, that might arise, viz. That these particles might possibly change their colour only outwardly ”

“ And whereas the Learned have commonly supposed, Cask to be the midle frusta of Spheroids, and given Rules accordingly for Gaaging them, those suppositions, as Vintners and others upon experience assert, are found too much to enlarge the Capacity, so that a Canary Pipe, that is reputed to hold about 126. gallons, upon Experiment hath been found to contain but 116. gallons: And to determine, what figure is most proper to be admitted, ought to be built upon such an Experiment as this ”

“ Timothy Clarck, and divers other Ingenious and expert Amtomists and Physitians still doubt, whether that be so indeed, considering that not only it cannot be denyed, that this curious heap of Strings or suppos'd Vessels was at first cov'red all over with a Mucous matter (which in so fine and tender a part may well be thought to serve for a parenchyma,) but also that Monsieur de Graeff must himself grant, that in the said part there are found certain smal Membrans besides those Vessels, he is asserting ”

“ SInce it cannot but considerably conduce to the rendring a rationale accompt of the Cause of such Fiery Eruptions, as are frequently made by divers Mountains, if the matters, by them cast up, be well examined, in regard that if they are found to be of an easily inflamable nature, they may quickly kindled by some falling stones, which breaking in pieces may strike sparks into and so set on fire such combustible matter, they light upon ”

“ So farr these two industrious Physitians; which though it looks very fair to evince, that the Testes of Animals are made up of nothing but Vessels and their liquors, yet doth our Learned and Inquisitive Dr. ”

“ A particular Accompt of divers Minerals, sent from the lately burning Mount Ætna. Some Observations touching some of the Organs of Generation.⁠Extracts of two Letters, giving an Accompt of a very sudden and excessive Swelling of a Womans Breasts.⁠Some Reflections made on the enlarged Accompt of Dr Witties Answer to Hydrologia Chymica; chiefly concerning the Cause of the sudden Loss of the vertues of some Mineral Waters. ”

“ Written by the Learned Dr. William Durston, Physitian at Plimouth, to the Right Honorable the Lord Vice-Count Br uncker as President of the R. Society; concerning a very sudden and excessive Swelling of a Womans Breasts. ”