The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 6 of 15 (Classic Reprint)
Автор:Francis Bacon Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 454 ISBN: 1440040745 Experiment solitary touching veins of medicinal earth.701. There be minerals and fossils in great variety; but of veins of eartb medicinal, but few; the chief are, Terra Lemnia,1 Terra Sigillata communis, and Bolus Arminus; whereof Terra Lemma is the chief. The virtues of them arc, for curing of wounds, stanching of blood, stopping of fluxes and rheums, and arresting the spreading of poison, infection, and putrefaction : and they have of all other simples the perfectest and purest quality of drying, with little or no mixture of any other quality. Yet it is true that the Bole-Ar-minic is the most cold of them, and that Terra Lcmnia is the most hot 5 for which cause the island Lemnos, where it is digged, was in the old fabulous a^es con-sec rated to Vulcan.Experiment solitary touching the grototh of spunges.702. About the bottom of the Straits3 are gathered great quantities of spunges, which are gathered fromTable of Contents PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS; PART I - continued; works published, or...
