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A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne].

  • Pierre Pomet
Date:
1712
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Credit: A compleat history of druggs divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral : with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts, illustrated ... / written by Monsieur Pomet ; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort ... Done into English from the originals [by Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sea, or is of a fait Nature, for as much as near Trévoux in the Principality of Domhes, all the Pumice Stones we fell are of a fait It is now no longer believ’d that they arc and brackifli Tafte, and full as it were of found in the Eagle’s Neft. little Needles. ^ It were to be wilh’d that the Virtues at- PumeXf or the Pumice Stone, is tributed to the Eagle Stone were as certain as Lemery. a Stone or Earth that has been cal- they are coniiderable ; Authors affirming that cin’d by fubterranean Fires, thrown it facilitates the Birch, if tied to the Thigh out by Eruptions of the Volcano’s, and by the of a Woman in Labour, and that it hinders Force of Winds, carried into the Sea, where Mifearriages if tied to the Arm ; they be- it is found floating ; there are feveral Kinds lieve that reduc’d to Powder, and mix’d in of it, the large, fmall, round, flat, light, a Cerate, it leflens the Paroxyfms, or Fits of heavy, grey, white, ^c. the moft valued the Epilepfy, if apply’d to the Head : ’Tis are the biggeft, lighteft, and the cleaneft ; alfo faid, that the Marie or Clay that is found they ought to be porous, fpungy, of a fait, in the Hollow is fudorifick, and will flop fenny, or marfliy Tafte, full of fmall Nee- the Flux of the Belly, dies. They are found likewife in Sicily, near /Eûtes LapiSy or the Ba^le StonCy Mount Vefuvius, from whence they come ; is a Stone commonly round or o- Lemery, and \n Germany, zbont C on flans, the Mofelle val, of the Bignefs of a Walnut, and the Ehine ; they are alkaline, decerfive, and fometimes of a fmall Pullet’s Egg, of a drying, us’d for old Ulcers, fore Eyes, and greyifh or dark Colour, hollow in the Mid- * die, wherein is contain’d a Sort of ftony Kernel, that rattles in the Scone when you fhake it. There are four Kinds, [accord¬ ing to Po;wer’s Defeription ] all which have great Virtues aflign’d them, which are no¬ thing but imaginary, Experience not con¬ firming them with any Pretence of Cer- to clean Teeth. 19, Of the Ætites, or Eagle Stone. Pemet, w« lat we call are certain the Eagle Stones Stones that are hollow in the Middle, and contain in them tainty : It is aftringent, and proper to flop a ftony Nut or Kernel, that makes a Noife Loofeneffes and Hemorrhages, taken inward- when we fhake them j we commonly find ly ; the Kernel, which is fofter than the but four Sorts of them, that are indifierently Stone, is more advantageous for all the fame call’d in Latin Lapis Ætites, but the Kernel Purpofes : They are call’d Ætites, that flg- Callimus, The firft Sort is brown, oval, nifies Aquiline, or of the Eagle, becaufe it was ufually the Length of two or three Inches believ’d that the Eagles furnifh’d their Nefts and half a one broad, rough or knotty, with tbefe Stones to preferve their Young, and that takes a good Polifh : The Second is fomething lefs than the other, and feems j c to partake much of Iron, for it is cover’d ioad-otons. with an Ocre like the Iron Marchafite, The third Sort is rough and uneven, as if it was HE Toad-Stone, call’d in Latin, E//- compos’d of Fragments of little fhining ^ fonites, ^nd Batrachites inGreel^, Pomet, Flints of different Sizes, whereof fome are is a Scone likewife found in the Moun- brown, and others of a ruflec Colour, and tains, or the Plains. It has been believ’d fome as it were tranfparent; and all thefe that it was bred in the Head of an old Toad, Flints are ftrongly knit together by a natural whence it was voided by the Mouth of that Cement, and moft commonly nothing is Creature when put upon red Cloth : But found within it but fome Grains of Sand. Boetius, and thofe who have made exadt The fourth Kind is of an afli Colour, and Enquiries after it, affirm that this Stone is contains within it white Clay or Marie ; this form’d in the Earth ; there are commonly Sort comes from Germany: The Firft and two Sorts, to'wit, the round and the long : Second are found in the Bogs of Ca^e St^^ The round Toad-Stone is of the Shape of a Vincent in Portugal, and in the Mountains fmall Bonnet, round in Circumference, hol- B b 2 low