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HISTORY OF THE ROS1CRUCTANS.
stomach will turn them into good chylus.
We have some
meats also, bread and drinks, which taken by men, enable
them to fast long after, and some others that make the very
flesh of men's bodies sensibly more hard and tough, and
their strength far more great than otherwise it would be.
" We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines, wherein
you may easily thinke if we have such variety of plants
and living creatures, more than you have in Europe, the
simples, drugs, and ingredients of medecines, must likewise
be in so much the greater variety. We have them of
divers ages and long fermentations ; for these preparations
we have not only all manner of exquisite distillations and
separations, especially of gentle heats and percolations
through divers strainers, but also exact formes of compositions,
whereby they incorporate almost as they were
naturall simples.
" We have also divers mechanicall arts which you have
not, and stuffs made by them, as papers, liniien, silks,
tissues, dainty works of feathers of wonderfull lusture, ex-
cellent dies, and many others shops likewise,
as well for
such as are not brought into vulgar use amongst us as for
those that are, for you must know that of the things fore-
cited many of them are grown into use throughout the
kingdome, but yet if they did flow from our invention, we
have of them also for paterns and principals.
" We have furnaces of great diversities, fierce and quick,
strong and constant, soft and milde, blowne quite dry,
moist, and the like. Above all we have heats in imitation
of the sun's and heavenly bodies' heats, that pass divers in-
equalities, and, as it were arts, progresses and returns,
whereby we produce
admirable effects. Besides we have
heats of dungs, and of bellies and maws of living creatures,