III. "Demonflration . take" f>om the Load-floxe.

It is evicfintalro,th,ir the Needle touched with the Load-I'.one, willafpea fhe Load-Uoneat any pofition , whiiilthe Load-llone i^ tliong and lively; but when
the
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the Load-Horeis dead, orthachehave loft his veriueby thefire, the property of ihe Needle will alfo dye.
A fecond Experiment) copj firming the fore/kid Propofst'ion,
Againft the time that I wis ro read my publick Anatomy in the College , 1 had (as our cuftom is) a certain body of one that was hangitd , to be anatomized at my houfe privately : at which time I was folliciced by Mr. Kdlet, the Apothecary , to permit a Gentlewonanj who had a Scirrhous tumor in her belly, to be touched and Itroked with the dead man's hand , becaufe experience had taught it to be very effi- cacious , forthesbolidiing of the fike horrid protuberation in others, as ihey averred. The Gentlewoman, with her husband and brother, came unto my houfe and, as they defired , things wereeffeded. Within a while after the Apothecary * with the Gentlewomans husband , came to give me thanks fot chat courtefie, af- furing me, that it had done his wife good , and taken away the tumorous fwelling. Now this doth fhew , how the contaft of this northern Mummy in the dead mans hand, didcaufe the foutherly growing and vegetating tumour, vvhich did more and more fend out its beams from the center to the circumference , to decreafe and diminifh , and caufed it to rot and moulder away, by the centrall continuation or union of the northern fpirit in the dead, with that which did vegetate unnaturally in the living, and that at a far dilhnce.
A third Experiment , to exprejfe the felf- fame efeSf.
It is evident , and often approved by common people , that if Warts be rubbed with apiece of trefh beef » and the faid beef be conveyed into a field , and buried under rhe earth, that as the beef wafteth and rotteth in the earth , fo will the warts languifh and pine away. In like manner it hath been oft obfervcd , that if a piece ofbacon be rubbed on warts , and afterwards be nailed on a poll againft the Sun • as the bacon doth wafte and diminifti , fo alfo will the warts fade and wafte away! Alfo a dead bodies hand touching warts, they will dye.
Whereby is evidently proved , that as things are fympathetically maintained in their being, that is to fay, in their increafe or vegetation ; fo alfo,by an antipatheti- call afpeft.or fpirituall continuity, between two remote natures, after a corporall contain is made between them, whereof the one is Boreall , the other Southern or iEquinoftiall, the one which touched, will caufe it to fade anc;) vanith , after the nature of the toucher. So that as the northern property is an enemy unro life , and fouthern heat;foby his contact it caufeth unnaturally-growing things ro fadeaway by a like property, in changing the vegetating nature of the thing touched, into his decreafing, contrai5ting, and mortifying nature. The experimencail Glafs doth teach us, that theaftioncf coldis quite contrary unto that of heat, in one "and the fame fpirit. And Scripture tells us, (if we will not ftmd unto e-xperience) that the felf-fame word in hi^; fouthern property , doth undo and deftroy the fnowand ice, which it did make in his northern condition.
CHAP. IV.
UovD certain exerement'itlotis parts , taken from the Infirm member of the Attimal , and
traftfplanted into ave^etablc or growing tree y hath afpirittmli reUdon or contiiiHuY
Tt'irh the fpirit of the jick., and impotent membe'^^andcoiifeijHenil^ of the fick^crejitHre,
I will far the Better methoei?s caufe ^ exprefs in thefrontifpice of this Chapter
a Propof'tion^ as I have done in the precedent.
Tht Prep )ftiof).
THe magneticall force of the fpirituall Mummy dorh dwell and a£^, even in the excrementitious or fuperfluousexcrefcences , of any member of mans body, after that they are feparated from it, and tranfplanted intofome convenient mag^ neticall vegetable or plant ; fothat by afecretemaoationfrom them, or applica- tion unro the be;;m of the member, from whence iheyvvere cut or derived , and confequentlyby acontinuedfpirituall rehtionwhich is had between them , and the body or member from whence they were exttaited > they are able, by the msg-
netlcall
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neticall plants affirtance (whofe vegetable nature they borrow and indue) to ope- rate vegctacively upon the lame defective dolorous decayed limb; or member at an unlimited diltance.
The frfi Experiment all Uijlory.
My Mathematicall Maltetj excellent for his knowledg in the art of Ingeniery, (remaining with the Cardinall St. GVsr^eat /^owf) didaflureme, that if any one had a withered or confumed member, as a dried arm , leg, or foot , or fuch like, (w|;iichPhyhtians call, An A.ro^hj ot the limbs) and if he did cut from that mem- ber, be it footjor arme, the nails, hair, ana fcrapings of the skin, and fhall pierce aWillowtree, withan auger, or wimble, unto the pith; and after that Oiallthruft in thole pared nails, cut hair, &c. into the hole; and liop the hole dofe with a peg or pin made of the fame wood: obferving withall , that this adtion mull be ef- fedtedjwhen the Moon is increafing,and the gor-d Planets in fuch multiplying Sign';, A^KGemin), and Saiurr.f who is a great drier , be depreffed , the limbefo vva ted, fhallbylittleand little re-vegetate again , even as the Tree (in which rhj excre- ments are dofed) (hall daily increafe, grow, and flourilTi. Alfo he did aver un- to me, that I fhould find the felt- fame effeft, if I did put thofe cvcements into a hole, made in the root of a Hazel-tree, and clofe up again the hole with the bark of the fame Tree, and afterward cover it with earth; alTunng me, that it hath heeff tried, that as the Tree g'oweth fo will the member profper. Butaboveall, he wifhedmetoobfervethedueorderof the heaven, and fuch fecret and proper ■ conftellations,3s he hath inilrucled me in; for,without them,the cure or amendment willbethelelleeffeauall.