1. Sir Kenelm Digby tels me, that he hath stilled Rosa solis, & had it come over tinged clearely yellow, whereas he could never bringe any Coller[altered from mother'] of a vegetable over the Helme;

2. Dr Gurdons sp[e]cificke for the Pleurisie is this, Take['T' altered from 't'] in the springe the hearbe Ononis (or Crestharraw) & distill the water of it, of it in Balneo, of which let the the patient take in the beginninge of the disease (the sooner the better) 2, 3. 4 or 5 ounces at a time (accordinge to the Condition of the patient) as often as need requires it works insensibly, & taken betimes, prevents the necessity of bloodlettinge.

3 Sir Kenelme Digby told me that he made his Blancher for Pearles, <thus> He tooke Diaphantum & (in lesse then an houre) Calcined <it> with seacoale then he tooke his Menstruum Insipidum, and haveing first well grinded the Calcinatum['e' between 'n' and 'a' deleted] he poured on of the menstruum ad supernataonem[correct reading is supranationem] 8 digitorum; this mixture he digested 3 or 4 months in horse dunge Then tooke it out, & in a retort drew of all the menstruum & urged the rest with a pretty stronge fire & soe had a litle oleaginous water, then he poured on againe the same menstruum upon the Caput mortuum, & digested them againe in horse dunge for 3 or 4 months as before, & drew of the menstruum alsoe in a Retort as before, this menstruum (with some litle oleaginieity passeinge over with it,) he once more poured upon the Caput mortuum digested it 6 or 7 months longer, & then drew it of in a stronge retort in a naked fire & had first a yellowish greene oile very light, & of lesse efficacy then the second, which was a thick white oile almost like Butter;