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March: 25. 1680.
M
r. Henshaw the vicepres
t tooke the chair.
Ionas More Esq. subscribed the ^/vsuall/ Engagement to the Society & was ad
=mitted.
M
r. Hooke Propounded D
r. Clench (Fellow of the Colledge of the
Physitians of London) a Candidate of this Society.
The minutes of the 18
th. in
stant were Read.
vpon the mention of Sheathing of ships w
th. Lead. M
r. Hunt gaue an account
that he had tinned some
nayles iron nayles but sayd that it would not wholy
preserve them from ru
st. he was orderd to make tryalls of them and of
the other sheathing nayles w
th. Vrine, Brine, viniger &c. - against
the next meeting.
vpon the mention of
voyages to be collected the mapps of the magellan
straight It was Related that S
r. Iohn Narborows map thereof was
printed wherein some remarks of his therein were mentiond but
not all, for m
r. Hooke Related that he had been informed by Cap
n.
Wood that vpon soundin in some parts of tho
se
streights w
th. a 1000
fathom of Line he could find noe bottom.
The President came in and tooke the chair.
D
r. Crone Introduced Mo
r. Charras who presented the society with
a printed account of the obseruations of D
r. Io: Bap. Alprunus Physitian
to
the Empre
sse Eleonora, intituled De Contagione Viennen
si Experi
mentum medicum &c. together w
th. a paper of his own conteining
. . . . his thoughts & animadversions therevpon. They were both
Read & the Society Returned him their thanks and De
sired him if he
met w
th. any other thing of that kind new he would commun
icate them to the Society, which he promi
sed to Doe.
D
r. Crone Di
scoursed concerning the ferment of the Stomack &
sayd that It conteined a ferment and men
struum quite differing
from any other ferment whatsoeuer
M
r. Hooke was of opinion that a great cau
se of the effect of Di
sso
lution by the Stomack was cau
sed by a continuall motion of
the Stomack whereby the food therein contained was continually
squeezed and churned whereby
the concoctions Di
ssolutions or Dige
sti
ons were cau
sed which w
thout that motion could not be effected ei
=ther by the heat or men
struum of the stomack.
D
r. Crone obiected much again
st this suppo
sall and sayd It did not
appear that the Stomack had any
. . . . . motion, and that he con
ceiued It was rather cau
sed by the Glandules of the Stomack & Gutts
The Account of the Exp
ts. made on Tuesday la
st by the com
tee. for that
purpo
se was brought in by M
r. Hooke and Read and therevpon the P
t moued that again
st the next meeting m
r. Hooke should make a
table of All the exper
t. of that kind he had Already tryd & De
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