THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, BARON OF VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS, AND ROBERT LESLIE ELLIS, M. A. LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND DOUGLAS DENON HEATH VERSITY BARRISTER-AT-LAW; LATE FELLOW OF BRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. NATURAL HISTORY. CENTURY VIII. Experiment solitary touching veins of medicinal earth. 701. THERE be minerals and fossils in great variety; but of veins of earth medicinal, but few; the chief are, Terra Lemnia,1 Terra Sigillata communis, and Bolus Arminus; whereof Terra Lemnia is the chief. The virtues of them are, 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-Arminic is the most cold of them, and that Terra Lemnia is the most hot; for which cause the island Lemnos, where it is digged, was in the old fabulous ages consecrated to Vulcan. Experiment solitary touching the growth of spunges. 702. About the bottom of the Straits2 are gathered great quantities of spunges, which are gathered from 1 See, for some account of Terra Lemnia, Sandys's Travels, p. 18. (7th edition). 2 That is, the Hellespont. See Sandys, p. 14. |