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 Colleraltered 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 supernataonemcorrect 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;