The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3Browne, Thomas, Sir
Religion
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3
Browne, Thomas, Sir
Christianity; Ethics; Religion and medicine
1. Certain ancient Medals with Greek and Roman Inscriptions, found about
_Crim Tartary_; conceived to be left in those parts by the Souldiers of
_Mithridates_, when overcome by _Pompey_, he marched round about the
North of the _Euxine_ to come about into _Thracia_.
2. Some ancient Ivory and Copper Crosses found with many others in
_China_; conceived to have been brought and left there by the Greek
Souldiers who served under _Tamerlane_ in his Expedition and Conquest of
that Country.
3. Stones of strange and illegible Inscriptions, found about the great
ruines which _Vincent le Blanc_ describeth about _Cephala_ in _Africa_,
where he opinion'd that the Hebrews raised some Buildings of old, and
that _Solomon_ brought from thereabout a good part of his Gold.
4. Some handsome Engraveries and Medals, of _Justinus_ and
_Justinianus_, found in the custody of a Bannyan in the remote parts of
_India_, conjectured to have been left there by the Friers mentioned in
_Procopius_, who travelled those parts in the reign of _Justinianus_,
and brought back into _Europe_ the discovery of Silk and Silk Worms.
5. An original Medal of _Petrus Aretinus_, who was called _Flagellum
Principum_, wherein he made his own Figure on the Obverse part with this
Inscription,
_Il Divino Aretino._
On the Reverse sitting on a Throne, and at his Feet Ambassadours of
Kings and Princes bringing presents unto him, with this Inscription,
_I Principi tributati da i Popoli tributano il Servitor loro._
6. _Mummia Tholosana_; or, The complete Head and Body of Father
_Crispin_, buried long ago in the Vault of the Cordeliers at _Tholouse_,
where the Skins of the dead so drie and parch up without corrupting that
their persons may be known very long after, with this Inscription,
_Ecce iterum Crispinus._
7. A noble _Quandros_ or Stone taken out of a Vulture's Head.
8. A large _Ostridges_ Egg, whereon is neatly and fully wrought that
famous Battel of _Alcazar_, in which three Kings lost their lives.
9. An _Etiudros Alberti_ or Stone that is apt to be always moist:
usefull unto drie tempers, and to be held in the hand in Fevers instead
of Crystal, Eggs, Limmons, Cucumbers.
10. A small Viol of Water taken out of the Stones therefore called
_Enhydri_, which naturally include a little Water in them, in like
manner as the _Ætites_ or _Aëgle_ Stone doth another Stone.
11. A neat painted and gilded Cup made out of the _Confiti di Tivoli_
and formed up with powder'd Egg-shells; as _Nero_ is conceived to have
made his _Piscina admirabilis_, singular against Fluxes to drink often
therein.
12. The Skin of a Snake bred out of the Spinal Marrow of a Man.
13. Vegetable Horns mentioned by _Linschoten_, which set in the ground
grow up like Plants about _Goa_.
14. An extract of the Inck of Cuttle Fishes reviving the old remedy of
_Hippocrates_ in Hysterical Passions.
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