The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Johann Chrystophor Beckmann, Physic Professor at Frankfurt ( - )
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - An extract of a letter written from Franckfurt in the oder, by the learned Professor Johannes Christophorus Beckman to the publisher, concerning osteocolla, and some other observables in those parts; Englished out of the High-Dutch, as follows.References in Documents:
Ash-colour.
Of these Stones, see the Relation especially
of
phorus Beckmannusa)
a)
Trans. N.
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observes, That they grow in a sandy,
seldom or never in a
claiy-Ground. Sometimes two mens depth;
and with
Branches side-ways. Taper'd, as in Plants; where
thickest,
equal to an ordinary Arm; the small Branches, to
ones little
Finger. The Place where found is noted by a white
fatty
Sand, the rest yellowish round about; and underneath a
dark, moist, and fatty putrid substance, like rotten-Wood,
running in Veins and is the Mother of the Osteocolla. So that it seems to grow somewhat after the
manner of the En
trochus, or Stelechites above describ'd.
'Tis found most in
This Stone, as is indicated by its Name, is
highly esteemed
for expediting the Coalition of broken Bones; ʒj hereof
See one
or two very remarquable Histories hereof in
tiusa)a)
& Gem. Lib.
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