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The XVII Century.
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Weight of the fibrous part of H. B. (in uncertain-Greg hand)
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We took two [ 'several' deleted] ounces of the Fibrous part of Human Blood, carefully separated from the Serum, & dry'd them severally in 2 clear cak'd Glasses, the one in a South Window in the room over our Laboratory, & the other [ 'on the top' deleted] upon the Sand of our digestive furnace in a part remote from the Focus where the Heat is alwayes very gentle. The['se' at end of word deleted] [ 'two parcels' deleted] former when it was dry enough to be <easily> pulverable, weighed {drachm} iii + 5 g. & the latter {drachm} ii + 43 gr.

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{calx} of oyster shells (in uncertain-Greg hand)

Oyster shells free'd from their external scurf, were by being kept above two hours <in the fire> reduc'd (after some blackness) to a pure white Calx, which discover'd it self to be much of the nature of common Lime, not only by the Tast, but [ 'fi' deleted] by these Marks 1. The powder of it being rub'd with Syrup of Violets soon turn'd the Liquor green. 2. Some of the same Powder being strow'd upon a Solution of Sublimate, presently afforded an Orange Precipitate.

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[ 'fixation' deleted] odde {caput mortuum} fixt. (in uncertain-Greg hand)

Two half pounds of Oyl of Dantsic Vitriol, having been distill'd at two several times with an equal weight of Spirits totally Ardent, afforded about {ounce} ii of a cole-black Caput mortuum, which being put into a Crucible & kept an hour in the fire, wasted to <somewhat less than> half an ounce. [space of 1/4 of page]

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Tb'd
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h (margin, at end of paragraph)

We took about the bigness of a walnut of clean cotton, & having moisten'd it throughly with Chymical [ '(' deleted] or (as Artists call it) Essential [ ')' deleted] Oyl of Carvi, & then a little press'd it together, we put it into a clean Copper Spoon, (because we had one at hand, & would avoid spoiling a