Tunquin begin betimes ibid. Witts on Tenterhook to make Turnip Bread 47 A Faetus 16 Years in Vtero 58 Mr. Transactioneer's prodigiously large Feather of the Bird Cuntur ibid. Eggs in the Cauda of a Barnacle ibid. The whisking Oystershels of Bantam 59 A Buck in a Snakes Belly 60 Four pounds worth of Glass broke by Hail 61 300 Scarts murdered in one Night 62 Fish different from one another ibid. No Fish die of Feavours 63 A Shower of Whitings 64 A shower of Butter to dress 'em with 65 A Tree bearing Tallow 66. Hoggs that sh te Soap ib. Cows that sh te Fire 67 Verses on an Ele and a Pike ibid. A Lamb Suckled by a Weather 68 Martial Discipline of Grasshopers 69 A stout Butchers Dog that run under a Bed 70 71 Mr. Hone O Hones Travelling Irish Bog 72 Of Mr. Gratrix's Stroaking 74 75 76 A Discourse more painful than a Blister 77 Cantharides arm'd with Swords and Daggers k8 Hanging Mortal 79 Apoplectical ibid. The feirceness of a Sable Mouse 91 That a Fox is lawful and a Fox is unlawful 83 Four sorts of Lady Bugs 84 Clogs cloven with Thunder ibid. The true way of the Generation of Fleas discover'd by indifatigable Industry ibid. Who was the first Coffee-Man 85 That Coffee-Houses promote the Trade of News Papers and make People sociable 86 DIALOGE I. Between a Gentleman AND A VIRTUOSO Virtuoso PRAY Sir what Philosophical News have you heard of late amongst our Friends and what New Discoveries or Improvements have they made Gentleman Truly Sir I have scarce enâ—uired after Philosophical News since Dr. â—lot and Mr. Oldenburg were taken from amongst us not but that there are a great many Men of Learning and Merit still remaining who bear not only the Titles of Virtuosi but really deserve them Virtuos And are not the Improvement they make worth enquiring after Gent. Yes Sir But those are only communicated to Friends and since they havâ— thought fit to conceal them I know noâ— whether I may take the liberty of divulginâ— what is kept as Secret by the Authors Vituos Nay whatever hath been communicated as a Secret I shall not desiâ—â— you to divulge tho' methinks it is a piâ—â— any thing should be kept private thâ—â— might be of Publick Use and promoâ—â— Natural Knowledge But may I take tâ—â— liberty to ask you why they are unwilliâ—â— to Publish them Gent. Since you desire me to tell you tâ—â— Reasons I shall acquaint you with theâ— as far as I am able Virtuos Sir I shall esteem it a singulâ—â— Favour Gent. Then you must know Sir the Gentlemen have that vast Opinion of tâ—â— present Philosophical Transactions and tâ—â— Papers communicated therein that thâ—â— are unwilling to Publish their poor Dâ—â—coveries or Improvements amongst Subjecâ—â— so Noble in themselves and so accurate writ Virtuos Truly their Caution 〈◊〉 â—â—quisite for in the Late Transaction◠〈◊〉 of the Subjects are indeed most prodigiously sublime and penn'd too in a Wonderous manner So that it is a hard matter for the generallity of Virtuosi who imitate Bacon Boyle or Men of that Character to write in the Language observable in most of those Papers for there the Expressions are suitable to the Sublimity of the Subjects and consequently mighty Mysterious and above the reach of these Gentlemen Gent. Yes Sir The Sublimity of the Stile makes it inaccessible to those that are not accustomed to such Flights Virtuos Why 't is no wonder The Compilling the Transactions the Work of a single Person for you must know the Philosophical Transactions come through the Hands of one who takes care that every thing be nobly and clearly expressed and by his own Writings which so plentifully adorn those Papers One may see he is abundantly Qualified for the Task he has taken upon him Gent. Pray are not the Philosophical Transactions then Published by direction of the Royal Society Virtuos No no Sir far from it that lies all upon one Mans Head and 't is happy he has so good a Head-peice Gent. May one be so bold as to ask the Compilers Name Virtuos I suppose you cannot but have heard of one who is so famous and keeps Correspondence with so many Learned Men his Name is sufficiently known amongst thâ— Learned Gent. If I guess right at the Man I must needs say I have heard a great many mighty things said of him very fine things indeed And much to his Renown Virtuos O Sir The Excellency of â—his Stile he 's a great Man for besides his wonderful Skill in Physick and Phylosophy he has a strange Tallent at Stile his Knack at that is admirable to convince you of this I shall refer you to the Philosophical Transactions Numb 252. p. 188. where you will find the following Representation of a Limestone Marble found in Wales when polished so his Intelligencer Phrases it Gent. Admirable indeed Virtuos Why There lies the Rarity of the Thing for an ordinary Reader would think it was polished before it was found But Sir the Transactioneer himself far outstrips him in his Note upon this remarkable peice take it in his own Words This Stone is a sort of Coral and the Lapidis Astroitidis sive stellaris primum Genus Boet de Boadt or Astroites Worm Mus. It grows in the Seas adjoyning to Jamaica It is frequently found fossile in England I have some of it found here that will polish as well as Agat which was many Years since found out by Mr. Beaumont There are many other things growing in the Seas adjoyning to Jamaica and not to be found in these Parts which are frequently dug up in the Inland Parts of England and elsewhere where they do not naturally grow Gent. Pray Sir let me desire you to give me the meaning of what you have related in plain English for the Sublimity of this way of Expression is above my mean Capacity Virtuos The Dignity of the Subject will by no means admit of it besides it will be an injustice and lessening of the Authors performance Gent. However for Discourse sake pray let me ask you What he means by that proposition this Stone is a Coral Virtuos O Sir His meaning is very apparent 'T is as much as if one should say this Elephant is an Apple-Tree Now I hope 't is plain There are some tatling People likewise that say they cann't tell what he means by Astroitidis neither They say there is no president of any such word but if they look into the Jamaican Catalogue they 'l find thousands of like kind Why a Person of his Figure may make Presidents Man For what follows one poor simple Fellow that read it thought it had been a Charm Gent. Verry like But pray Sir how are we to interpret him when he says the Limestone Marble that was found in Wales and was a Coral and the Lapidis and the Lord knows what grew in the Seas adjoyning to Jamaica Besides what he has about its being found and
Fire A Young Woman that lived with her Father in the House that belong'd to this Farm leaves the House and not seeing the Young Man about the Barn goes with speed and tells the Family he was related to That she feared he was slain They came to the Barn and found it even so a sad Spectacle His Clogs driven from his Feet one not to be found and the other cloven and his Hat not to be found after search This Young Man would have been 22 Years of Age next June is said to have been sober and hopeful was Buryed at Luddenden the Monday following To this I have but Two more Philosophical Matters to add the first is an Account of the Generation of Fleas See Numb 249. p. 2. At last is discovered by the Indesatigable Industry of Signior D'iacinto Cestone the true way of the Generation of Fleas their Worms and entire Metamorphoses which have hitherto been obscure tho' sought after The Fleas bring forth Eggs or a sort of Nits from these Eggs are hatched Worms these Worms make to themselves Bags like Silk-Worms and from out of these Bags come Fleas Having thus given you an Historical Account of the Generation of Fleas I shall proceed to a Discourse of Coffee Numb 256. p. 311. Of the Berries Boyled in Water is made a Drink and drank much amongst the Arabians and Turks and also now in Europe As for the manner of its being first made a Trade of in England I shall give you the following Account Anno 1652. One Edwards came over into England and Marryed the Daughter of one Alderman Hodges This Hodges setled to drink Coffee with Edwards with much delight After this Edwards set up one Pasqua for a Coffee-Man The Ale-house keepers fearing it would spoil their Trade Petitioned the Lord Mayor against him Upon this Hodges joined as a Partner with Pasqua one Bowman at the last Pasqua dyed and Bowman kept the Trade and when he dyed left his Wife who had been Hodges's Cook-Maid pretty Rich but she dyed Poor John Painter was Bowman's first Apprentice Bowman dyed and after a Year his Wife let the House to one Batler whose Daughter Marryed Humphrey Hodskins Bowman's second Apprentice And after some time the Trade grew universal but what was the Rise of Batsons Wills or Richards I cannot tell But this I have been told Coffee hath greatly encreased the Trade of Tobacco and Pipes Earthen Dishes Tin Wares News Papers Coals Candles Sugar Tea Chocolate and what not Coffe-hauses make all Sorts of People sociable they improve Arts and Merchandize and all other Knowledge And a Worthy Member of this Society has thought that Coffee-Houses have Improved Useful Knowledge very much I thought to have proceeded to give you an Historical Account of the most Remarkable Trades in England as Chimney-Sweping Tinkers Pedlars c. And what were the Names of those that were first of that Employment as also the Names of their Apprentices and who they Marryed But since I have pressed upon your Patience so long I shall force no more upon you than you are willing to bear But pray let me ask your Opinion of these Philosophical Transactions and what Thoughts you have 〈◊〉 my Friends are they not Men that take a great deals of Pains to Improve Knowledge and let nothing pass that 's worth Noting Gent. Much Pains it must be allowed ye have taken 't is pity ye had not consider'd to what Purpose Transact Why is there not a great deal of Natural Knowledge to be learned from what I have wrote and Published Gent. Sir one may learn how prettily You and your Correspondents are Employ'd But nothing that will make a Man wiser or more a Philosopher for what am I the wiser for knowing the Mice creep into holes or how nastily the Moors pull their Meat Nor is what you have acquainted me with of the Generation of Fleas any more than what a Lowzy Beggar could have told many Years ago And as for your Coffee Story I take it to be a Tale fit to be Related only amongst Old Women and Mechanicks Transact And is that all you can see in such Improvements Gent. No Sir it 's not all for your Correspondent tells us That Coffee promotes the Tobacco Trade and consumes Pipes and Candles But I suppose any Coffee-Woman knows that without the assistance of your Friend to inform her Transact Well since I see you are resolved not to think so well of my Correspondents as I could wish I beg your Pardon for entertaining you so long with such Philosophical Relations which I perceive instead of diverting have made you uneasie But yet I must tell you my Correspondents will not be discouraged from pursuing their Design though the whole World Laugh at them FINIS
THE TRANSACTIONEER With some of his Philosophical Fancies IN TWO DIALOGUES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adag ap Erasm. LONDON Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. THE PREFACE BY the following Dialogues it is Apparent that by Industry alone a Man may get so much Reputation almost in any Profession as shall be sufficient to amuse the World tho' he has neither Parts nor Learning to support it The Person who makes the Chief Figure in them has certainly nothing but a bustling temper to recommend him and yet has gained so much upon many People that they will scarce believe the Evidence of their own Senses but 't is probable that those who are not past cure may now be undeceiv'd I have treated him under two Characters as an Author and an Editor In the former I have consider'd his own personal Capacity In the other his Judgment in the choice of his Friends and of the Discourses that he Publishes I know it may be said he Writes in Hurry and has not time to correct and finish it But then who obliges him to Write at all What occasion is there for it Or what is the use of it Besides he Publishes Notes forsooth and Peices of no more than 4 6 or perhaps 8 lines and what time can there be required for the Composal of such 'T is plain a Man that is himself once possess'd of any Subject can express it to another if he has but Language If his Head be clear and the Things rightly digested in it there can be no Difficulty in the conveying them thence But where a Man has no real Parts and is Master of only Scraps pick'd up from one and from another or Collected out of this Book or that and these all in confusion in his Head 't is obvious what a Writer he must needs make No our Transactioneer should have kept to his old way of bustling vying with Dr. Salmon at Auctions mustering up Books for a shew and of acting by Signs Scrapes and Wriggles Half-Sentences and broken Phrases with these Assistances pass'd pretty well upon some But he must appear in Print stript of them and now all 's out the World having got at length the true Measure of his Abilities Perhaps it may seem strange that I who am no Member of the R. S. should deal so freely with the Person and some Correspondents of one who is slipp'd into the Post of Secretary to that Illustrious Body But I am mov'd by the Respect I have for Natural Studies and a fear least those Men who have made such great Advances in it and thereby gain'd the Applause of all the Learned World should lose any part of it by the trifling and shallow Management of one who wants every Qualification that is requisite for such a Post. All who read his Tranactions either in England or beyond the Seas cry out that the Subjects which he writes on are generally so ridiculous and mean and he treats of them so emptily and in a Syle so confused and unintelligible that it is plain he 's so far from any usefull Knowledge that he wants even common Grammer This is so Notorious from every line he has published that his own Words will be the best Proof of what I say and I have been so carefull in producing them that I defie him to shew he is once Misrepresented Nay there is so little need of that that I challenge any Man with all his Art to imitate the Bulls and Blunders which he so naturally pours forth His Correspondents are most of them so like himself for Learning and Understanding that a Man may almost swear they were cast in the same Mold Indeed he has had a very lucky hit in the choice of them I am sorry to see that Excellent Society in any hazard of being Eclipsed by the wretched Gambols of these People Learned Men abroad have ever verry justly had a vast esteem for the English Society But I find that now like to decline they having no other way of judging of it but by the Philosophical Transactions The World every where looks on them as a kind of Journal of the R. Society tho' there 's no Ground for that Opinion for they were begun by Mr. Oldenburg who all along declar'd the R. Society were not concern'd in those Transactions but that they were a Work of his own and some Friends At that time they were carry'd on in such a manner that they met every where with Approbation and were of real use But since this new Secretary-ship all agree a more useless Paper no where appears and I was concern'd that such a one should pass for a Work of the R. Society 'T is their Vindication that has drawn me to undertake this and if I can but disabuse the World by it I have my end I can truely say that I have no personal Prejudice to the present Transactioneer or any of his Friends For I am but little known to any of them And if they now think I have no design to recommend myself to their Acquaintance I fancy the Reader will not believe they are mistaken The CONTENTS THE Present Compiler of the Philos. Transact Page 3 The Excellency of his Style 4 His Clearness and Perspicuity 5 Genius to Poetry 8 Verses on Jamaica Pepper ibid. Politicks in Gardening 9 Skill in Botanicks 10 Mr. Ray's Definition of a Dil oe 11 Ipecacuana harmless and helpful 12 Cynocrambe or Ratsbane not to be taken in too great Quantities ibid. Swallowing Pebles dangerous and why 13 A China Ear-Picker 15 Picking the Ears too much Dangerous ibid. Instruments for pairing of the Nails 17 A Curry-Comb for a Man 18 A pair of Brass Tweezers ibid. A wide tooth'd Comb. A small tooth'd Comb ibid. A sheet of Paper from China A Scarlet Butterfly ibid. A Fossile Mandible 19 A Description of the Great Irishman 20 of Posture-Master Clark 21 Beans that Travelled from Jamaica to Ireland 23 Drunkards not drowned by drinking 26 What drowning is ibid. That Men can't swallow when they 're dead 28 That a Shell is not a Crust 31 Mt. Pett rs specimens of Magnificence 35 20 Volumes in Folio filled with Trees 36 Blackmores teeth so call'd for their Whiteness ibid. Eyes of a Tortoise bigger than its Head ibid. Affrican Materia Meddica 37 Skill and Tallent in Compliments 38 Irish Makenboy purges not in the Pocket 39 Charles Worth his Man and Maid all merrily besh t ib. W. Matthews and his Family much in the same pickle 41 A Woman that talk'd Obscenely and offer'd her Cow for a Bag-pipe 44 Of Ambergreese Ben 45 Old Jenkins older than Old Patr by computation 46 Dr. Lister bit by a Porposs and how his Finger fell sick thereupon 48 A Medicinal Spring with an Oak over it 50 The Medicinal Qualities of Bread and Cheese 51 Scurvy Consequencies of Marrying too soon 53 54 A Head that was a Bag 56 A New way to preserve a Maidenhead ibid. Women in
great Character he hath given you and the Learned Passages of your own Writings which he hath Collected together to justify that Character have made me uneasie till I had the Happiness to pay my Humble Respects to you Transact Indeed I am very much obliged both to him and you Gent. Sir the chife end of my Visit now next to paying my Respects to you is to Communicate some Philosophical Matters which if you think fit to Publish in your Philosophical Transactions are at your service Transact Pray what may they be Gent. Sir at present I shall only offer you a Definition of a Shell and a Crust Transact I desire a sight of it Gent. Here it is Sir Transact A Shell properly is such a hard substance as covers an entire Animal N. 219. as an Oyster-shell A Crust is such a hard substance as covers only One particular Joynt of the included Animal Sir I am your Servant if you light of any thing of this Nature you will oblige me very much in communicating it and do the World a great deal of service Gent. I shall be glad if any thing I can offer may oblige one the World has such an Opinion of Transact Truly I am obliged to the World for their Opinion of me And if any thing I can do to promote Natural Knowledge may be of Service to them I shall not spare my Labour Gent. O Sir you have taken a great deal of Pains already for the Compiling so many Philosophical Volumes in Quarto must take up a great deal of Time nor could they be made fo Polite and Correct without as great Application Transact It is indeed a Laborious Work for besides Compiling of so many Volumes the great Correspondence which I am obliged to keep is no small trouble Gent. It cannot chuse but be troublesome but your Happy Choices and the Philosophical Returns they make you recompense the Trouble Transact If it were not for that it would be a meer peice of Slavery but as you say the Discoveries and Improvements which are Communicated by my Correspondents make me value the Trouble much less for I think for Weight Usefulness and other Circumstances the Papers I have Published in the Transactions are not inconsiderable Gent. Inconsiderable You have quite out-done Mr. Oldenburg for the World never thought he Published enough but you heap Philosophical Relations together at such a Prodigious Rate that you Publish Transactions as fast again as they desire you The World is quite over-powered with them Transact Why truly I have used my utmost Diligence and Care that not the least thing in Nature should escape my Notice And I am infinitely obliged to my Correspondents for their Industry Gent. Truly they are to be commended But methinks it would be of great use to the World if the most Considerable Passages in those Papers were Collected together and Published for the use of the Learned Transact I have done that already and if you please I will give you an Account of those which I have a more peculiar Relish for and value at the highest Rate Gent. Sir it will be a very great Favour and I shall be very much obliged to you Transact I can never be to seek where to begin then as long as there is such a Personage as Mr. J Pet r in the Philosophical World He 's a F. of the R. S. indeed I made him so 'T is my way of Rewarding my Friends and Benefactors We now begin to call it Our Royal-Society mus Pet. C. 5. One would never think it that looks upon him but he 's certainly the Darling of the Temple Coffee House Club. Gent. Pray what 's that Transact Oh lay Why don't you know Where can you have lived Why you must be an utter Stranger to Philosophy and all pretty Things never heard of the Temple Club Oh for shame let 's see you there a Friday Night I 'm President there and I 'll assure you there are many odd Things And Mr. Pet r is Gad he 's every thing He 's the very Muffti the Oracle of our Club. For my part I never saw any thing like him exactly Gent. No I believe not Transact Oh then I perceive you know Mr. James Gent. No indeed not I. Transact No I wonder at that you ought to be acquainted with him I 'll be the Instrument of bringing it about Sir he and I are all one You must know we club Notions laying them up in a kind of Joynt-Stock and have all things in common Sometimes he draws and sometimes I as we have occasion But he pays in most plenteously By my good-will I would never be without him I call him the Philosophick Sancho and he me Don. I own I have learnt more of him than ever I did at Orange or any where else Gent. Orange Sir Transact Yes I knew 't was quicker and cheaper than at Leyden or Padua so I was Dubb'd Doctor there En passant whip and away But for Mr. Pet r he 's an Author and has Treated on the same Topicks that I have Have you read the Musaeum Pettiverianum or his Treatises in my Transactions Gent. No really but I observe all People smile when they mention him I believe he 's mighty Diverting Transact The most of any thing in Nature But how should a Man of his Parts be otherwise Oh the Specimens of Modern Magnificence and Improvement he has given the Learned World Trans N. 236. His First Century consists of several Animals and Plants wholly New Trans N. 224. And pray mark how Considerable they are and how much Mankind are indebted to his Labour and Study The Animals are Snails and Beetles Caterpillars Spiders and others of the like sort The Plants Rushes Thistles Mosses with abundance more of equal worth But above all Butterflies are his main Delight He gives'em strange Cramp Names and values himself for being the first Catcher Papilos leucomelanos says he is not yet clearly Described by any Author Trans N. 224. And perhaps had never been Described wo the day had it not been for this Author He looks as big upon his Botanick Acquisitions Say he Be it known that I have this Year besides several before received near 20 Volumes in Folio filled with fair and perfect Specimens of Trees Mus Pet. But he 's most lucky in the assigning the Reasons of the Names of his Rarities He has Shells called BLACKMOORS TEETH I suppose says he from their WHITENESS Trans N. 224. Now we are on this Subject I ought to acquaint you he values nothing that has not as many Titles and Names as the King of Persia. He will find in one Author or other 20 Names for the same Thing And thinks it impossible to Enumerate the many Advantages that will occur from thus synomizing of Authors ib. and Elsewhere he speaks very big of the English that is himself and me as to their Critical Methods in their Discoveries of Non-descript Species and their Judicious
References to the synonimous Names of various Writers whereby the terrible Vices of Confusion and Multiplicity have been much Corrected Trans N. 236. There 's my Style too exactly Only a little more clear He 's as successful in his Descriptions as in his Synonimizings Take an Instance in his Tortoise says he 'T is guarded along the Back with around Edge Do you mark His Head about the bigness of a Horse-Bean the Orbits of his Eyes very large Gent. How The Head no bigger than a small Bean and yet his Eyes very large Why sure his Eyes are not in his Head Transact Pray let me go on His Snout like a Parrot's Bill his upper Jaw including the under Is not that pretty Each Foot has Four sharp Claws like a Mouse Gent. Claws like a Mouse Transact Ay and his Tail taper and about half an Inch long Trans N. 246. Is not this Admirable But he 's not Inferior as to Physick He has an Affrican Materia Medica whose innocent Practice consists of no more Art than Composition Trans N. 232. My own Phrase again 't is as much as to say harmless and helpful Vid. pag. 12. But hear this Affrican Doctor He has Acloâ—a good for Crocoes or Itch. Bumbunny boil'd and drank causeth to Vomit Affunena boil'd and drank causeth a Stool Ambetuway causeth an Appetite to any Sick Person Attrumaphee boiled and drank causeth the great sort of Pox to skin and dry and is good against the Phrensy Mening is good for the stoppage of the Head Apputtasy is good for the Scurvey in the Mouth Of the two last he and I have taken abundance but without Effect Nor is Mr. Pett r's Physick beyond his Breeding really he 's a Person of singular Address It is says he to me my great Ambition to approve my self your obliged humble Servant See my Trans N. 232. He stiles mine A most Excellent Catalouge of Jamaica Plants ib. Nay he says I have been pleased to show such an admirable Skill and Talent this Way as will hardly be match'd either in past present or future Ages And this I have taken care to Print in my Transactions N. 236. Gent. Truly you'r mighty happy in the Applause of a Person of his Judgment And give ye your due ye vouch heartily for one another Shure that 's the reason so few others speak well of ye Transact Oh no 'T is Envy meer Envy The invidious World cannot bear the Lustre we cast Mr. Pett r concludes his Musaeum with a Catalogue of his Kind Friends I 'll read them Gent. Indeed I 'll save you the Labour Let them stand as they do No body sure will disturb or Envy them the Honour of being in that Catalogue And for Collections of Rarities they must needs be in mighty Renown and Credit since Mr. Pett r has been pleased to shew such an admirable Skill and Tallent that way But pray Sir proceed in the Account of your Transactions Transact The next thing I take notice of as very Considerable and of Extraordinary Use to the Curious is the great Skill in Botanicks Observable in my other Correspondents for you must know my peculiar Genus is most inclin'd to Botanicks And First Skill in virtues of Herbs As for the Virtues of Medicines it hath not only been discovered by Dr. Mullen that Irish Mackenboy Root may be carryed in the Pocket three days without purging but what hath been observed of the strange Effects of Papaver Corniculatum is very remarkable for N. 242. we have the following account In my Itinerary from London to Margaret Island mark the Elegancy of the Word Itinerary and thence most by the Sea-shore to the Lands-End to observe what Plants each Part produced Between Pentsants and Macketjew lived one Charles Worth an Apothecary The Case of Charles Worth who causing a Pye to be made of the said Poppy and eating of the said Popy Pye whilst hot was presently taken with such a kind of a Dilirium as made him fancy that most that be saw was Gold and calling for a Chamber-pot being a White Earthen one after having purged by stool into it he broke it into peices and bid the by-standers to save them for they were all Gold Gent. Methinks your Correspondent is very Circumstantial in Relating the Circumstances and Symptoms of the Dilirium Transact O dear Sir There was an absolute necessity to be exact in Particulars for had he only told us that the Herb Purged and caused a Dilirium how must we have known that he made use of an Earthen-Chamber-Pot that he purged into it and then broke it Gent. Truly as you say we should have been altogether at a loss there And to speak Truth the most diverting Circumstances would have been wanting Transact Yes The Pleasant Circumstances set off the Story for People purge into Chamber-Pots and are Dilirious that never took Papaver Corniculatum Gent. But pray What does this contribute to the Advancement of Natural Knowledge Transact If it encreases Knowledge it certainly advances it And pray Does not a Man know more that knows the Chamber-Pot was broke than he that hears of a Dilirium and Purging But these were not all the Effects of Papaver Corniculatum For The Man and Maid Servants having also eat of the same Pye strip'd themselves quite naked so danced one against another a long time Gent. Truly they had more satissaction in their Dilirium than the Master could have in breaking a dirty Chamber-Pot one would think But did not the Master and the Maid dance one against another Transact If they had it would have been Papaver Corniculatum inddeed but I cannot tell that only The Mistriss who was gone to Market coming home and saying how now What is here to do The Maid turned her brich against her and purging stoutly said there Mistriss is Gold for you Gent. This Papaver Corniculatum is a very strange kind of an Herb. Transact There 's scarce another in Nature except Cynocrambe that can cause such Symptoms Gent. Say you so Sir Transact Yes W. Matthews his Case For in Numb 203. Will. Matthews his Wife and Three Children have been lately ill and like to die The manner of their Sickness was very odd and therefore I shall give you a particular Account of it Gent. Pray do Sir Transact About Three Weeks ago the Woman went into the Feilds to gather some Herbs and having first boiled them fryed them with Bacon for her own and her Families Supper Gent. A very fine peice of Cookery indeed and very requisite the World should be acquainted with it especially the Philosophical Part they are much obliged to your Correspondent Transact If I had not thought it useful to Philosophers I had not taken notice of it But pray let me go on with my Story Gent. I beg your pardon for Interrupting you Transact After they had been about Two Hours in Bed One of the Children fell very sick and so did the other Two presently