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33) p. 31. Continued. [[left margin]] depends not upon the quantity of Matter nor Orifice, but on the Constitution. [[/margin]] the consequence of an extreme small quantity, and a few after large dossils, and the same as to incisions. Hence, there is no need to contrive instruments to make all the wounds alike, make them superficial, and small, if you want to be soon certain of the effect, &c. &c. Genuine process of the composition for gilding Brass and Silver. [[left margin]] To gild Silver and Brass See Philos. Trans. No. 243 p. 296. Vol. III. p. 657. of Lowshorp's Abridgement [[/margin] Take two ounces of gum lacca, two ounces of karabe, succinum or yellow amber, forty grains dragon's blood in tears, half a drachm of [[strikethrough]] safforn [[/srikethrough]] saffron, and forty ounces of good spirit of wine; infuse and digest the whole in the usual manner, and afterwards strain it through a linen cloth. [[right margin]] The Principles thence conjecturely deduced [[/margin]] When this varnish is to be used, the piece of silver or brass must be heated, before it is applied; by this means it will assume a gold colour, which is cleaned when soiled, with a little warm water. [[underline]] Note [[/underline]], This composition known only to a few, had been long used here in England. In 1720, it was communicated to M. Hellot by M. Scarlet, and in 1738 to the late M. Du Fay by M. Graham. M. Hellot this year communicated it to the French Academy, who thought proper to make it public. *Univ. Mag. [[right margin]] The rising of Liquor in capillary tubes will not account for vegetation. [[/margin]] [[in margin to left of the paragraph beginning "To make lime water..."]]To cure the gravel & Stone See p.21. [[/margin]] To make lime water [[left margin]]To cure the gravel & Stone See p.21. [[/margin]] Calcine oister or cockle-shells ^[[insertion]] and eggshells [[/insertion]] in the fire till they are friable and quite white; for if they are blackish or grey they must be put again into the fire. 7 pounds or at most 8 pounds of water mixed with one pound of these calcined shells, in an earthen vessel, and stand sometime; about 4 pints may be drank by a man and 2 by a boy per day; which and [[strikethrough]] eatt [[/strikethrough]] eating pills of soap, 1/2 an ounce at first, but in time [[stikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] to be [[/insertion]] increase to an ounce per day, has cured extraordinary case of the Stone & gravel. See London Mag. for Novem. 1752. p. 515-519. extracted from an Essay on the virtues of Lime-water. By Robert Whytt, M.D. F.R.S. &c. [[right margin]] Fluidity, not from Spherical Particles, but [[/margin]]