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Show Parts of Animals mixed Led. IIL Le&. Il. nothing elfé: or that from the common Luéation of mixed Bodies whereof we have now been fpeaking, it differs not i fhecie, but only in the manner of its caufation, and in degree: the Aer, or forme cer- tain Menftrunm lodged therein, being of no greater frength, than to produce a Bullition or Luétation of that low and oft degree which a call Fermentation. ; . 56. §. I have thus endeavoured to prove, by various Inftaices howinftrudtive this moft eafie, plain and fimple Method in the Mixture of Bodies, may become to us: and that meerly by obferving the Luda: tions which thence arife betwixt them. How much more then ifa diligent remarque be madeofall thofé various Colours, Smells Taftes Confijtencies, and other Mutations thereupon emergent? : ESS" ay ©, E.ct Hoe Various Proportions : Wherein the LIXIVIALSALT Is found in PLANTS: Read before the Royal Society, March, 1676. Ea GUFieAy Peal Of the QUANTITIES afforded by feveral Plants calcined in grofs. T isthe part of a Phyfician, knowingly and artie ficially to ufe and govern Nature. And therefore by everylikely Method, to infpec&t the State and $$) Properties of all forts of Bodies. One Method, is that [have taken in the foregoing Experiments 5 & fe. by mixing them with feveral Meffrunms or LiS J quors: whereby we may beaffifted to judge, SY both of the Kinds and the Proportions of Principles in any Body ; and of the manner of their Mixture in the fame. Another is byCaleining them 5 or, as it were, by ixing them with the Fire, a potent and almoft univerfal Afensérunm. I fhall here only fet down fome Tryals for an Effzy, upon Plants 5 chiefly noting, The different Proportions of their Lixvial Salts, Of thefe Tryals, fome were |