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Ferguson about the Matter mention'd is more full than either the Algebra of Frans Van der Huips, an Octavo Book in Low Dutch, 1654. or Kinkhuysen: neither do we find, that Ferguson ascribes the Invention of those Methods to himself.

The Learned Author in this Answer undertakes to prove, that all the Mineral Ingredients, which he in his First Book on this Subject affirm'd to be in the Scarborough-Spaw, are really there, and that his Antagonist himself, unawares, acknowledges them to be there; so that the judicious Reader of both these Authors will find, that the difference between them, whether in the Matter, which concerns those Ingredients of the said waters, or in that which respects the two ways of practising Physick, the Galenical and Chymical, is indeed not so great, as the heat of Contention seems to make it.

And certainly, if the Professors of this Art would but lay aside Animosities, personal Reflexions, and private Considerations; and withall acknowledge, as they ought, that new and great discoveries may be