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Promiscuous Addenda
to my severall Treatises.
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Production of Cold by poison
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Famulum habui qui a Scorpione ictus tam subito actam frigido sudore toto corpore perfusus est, ut algentissimâ nive ac glacie se se opprimi quereretur. Verum cum algenti illi solam Theriacam ex vino potentiore exhibuissem illico curatusem. Benivenius Cap. 56 abditor.

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Poison and Antidote
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Vir qui a Scorpione in manus digito punctus fuit, multum dolebat & deleted refrigeratus totus contremebat, et per corpus dolores, cute totâ quasi'a' altered from 's' acu punctâ, formicantes patiebatur. Cæterum hic a Scorpione punctus, ilicò eum interfecit, & contudit, et contusum puncto digito superposuit, et brevi a dolore liber fuit et quasi ab Igne exustus, redditus et ex toto Curatus. Lusit: Cent. 6. curat 31: Schenck. Observation: Medic: Lib 7.

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Tanta huius (Aranei) vis (speciem in memoria non habeo) ut calcatus calceorum soleas transmiserit cuiusdam Vincentini Scal. Exer: 186

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Strangly hot Climats and winds. (margin, on fol. 65v)
no rain in 8 month (margin, on fol. 66)

Bout it was first a poore fisher towne, from whence it <had> the name it yet retaynes, afterwards the conveniencie of the road, made it a fit residence for Marchants and so continueth (with increase of trade) since our, and the Dutch nation frequented this coast; the climate is very healthfull and the yeere devided in their account into three different seasons, whereof March Aprill May, and June they call the hote season; and not without good cause; for the sunne being returned into ther hemisphere, doth not alone scortch the earth with his piercing beames, but even the winde which should asswage his fury; addes grea