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of Plants growing in Air; of Lignum Fossile; of the growing of some Branches of Rosemary, by only sprinkling the leaves with Water; of Camphire Wood; of Wood brought from the Canaries; of a stinking Wood brought out of the East-Indies; of the Re-union of the Bark of Trees after it had been separated from the Body.

Medicinal and Anatomical.The sixth are Experiments Medicinal and Anatomical; as of cutting out the Spleen of a Dog; of the Effects of Vipers biting Dogs; of a Camæleon, and its Dissection; of preserving Animals in Spirit of Wine, Oil of Turpentine, and other Liquors; of injecting various Liquors, and other Substances into the Veins of several Creatures.

Experiments of destroying Mites by several Fumes; of the equivocal Generation of Insects; of feeding a Carp in the Air; of making Insects with Cheese, and Sack; of killing Water-Newts, Toads, and Sloworms with several Salts; of killing Frogs, by touching their Skin with Vinegar, Pitch, or Mercury; of a Spider's not being inchanted by a Circle of Unicorn's Horn, or Irish Earth, laid round about it.

Experiments with a poison'd Indian Dagger on several Animals; with the Maccassar Poison; with Florentine Poison, and several Antidotes against it; of making Flesh grow on, after it has been once cut off; of the grafting a Spur on the Head of a Cock, and its growing; of the living of Creatures by factitious Air; of the reviving of Animals strangled, by blowing into their Lungs; of Flesh not breeding Worms, when secur'd from Fly-blowing; of the Suffocation of Animals upon piercing the Thorax; of hatching Silk-Worm's Eggs in rarified Air; of transfusing the Blood of one Animal into another.

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