minerale <akin to this> with which my having heard that such an Experiment had bin done gave me occasion to propose <him> the question.

To manifest how much the facultyes of loosening and binding are relative things and depend upon the disposition of the body to be wrought upon, and so, upon the congruity betwixt the Agent & the Patient, I know an Ingenious Gentlewoman, on whom Cynamon, which [ 'has' deleted] generally is a considerable Astringent and Stomachick Medicine has a quite contrary operation and that in a strange degree, insomuch that having found by 2 or 3 accidentall Tryalls that <a very little> cynamon seemd to disorder her stomach and prove laxative, she resolv'd once to satisfy her self whether those discomposures came by chance or no, and having strew'd some pouder-cynamon upon a toste she was going to put into her ale, upon eating the toste she was <copiously>[replacing 'violently'] purg'd for 2 days together, and that with such violence that it put her into Convulsion fits <and a kind of Spasmus Cynicus>, which she could never bee perfectly free'd from being troubled with from time to time for 3 years, as was the other day averr'd to me, and divers others that know her, by her husband who is himself a learned man and a profest physitian.

I met the other day with a very intelligent person well verst in Chymistry, not credulous <and>[replacing 'And'] in a word very well worthy of Credit who assur'd me that he had himself seen <a few years ago> at Mentz in the hands of one Monsieur Paulier a gentleman of Lausanne and a Virtuoso a piece of glass about the bigness of a shilling or somewhat bigger which was red <& pretty transparent>[in Boyle hand] like glass of Antim. made per se, and which this Monsieur Paulier affirm'd to the relator that he hammerd before the present Elector of <Heidelberg, (to whom I told him I had the honor to be known, &) by whom the>[replacing 'Mentz, by whom the', Boyle hand] Relator was about that time employd, and this Mons. Paulier being [ 'of' deleted] his <intimate> Acquaintance and perceiving