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ofn what Univerficie have they learned ~~ “phem, chat as foon asever they hearthefe ” fwords, they will immediately; top their >
mares with their tayles, thacthey may-ner.- © “hearthem again? Forne foonerdothey % hear thefe words, but immediately theyS— _ “he ftill, contrary ro their natures, not buf- jing, or offering tobite or caftany venome “Sg btany mans and afcerwardsif they hear . \ finy man co approach towards them; they buddenly fly intorheir holes. Ifchou dott H 2 {ay rs
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fay chat nature doth effect this, it is th 4 fame which I did expe@ thou fhouldeft ri anf{wer : but if Nature worketh this upon 2 ‘ allother Creatures ¢ But if you fhould| fay, That the noife of the mans voice ef-} ° feGeth it, ‘and thac thereby the Serpents ob are terrified and ftupified 5 or chat it 1s Bi done by any power intheman; why then}?! do they not in the fame manner lie fill)" when aman maketh 2 far greater noife, ei- ther crying out, or difchargeth a Gun, of the like?
Chara@ers and Seals have likewife in them wonderful virtue, which is not at all B contrary to nature, nor fuperftitious Aly fo,if you fay that words are of no effed BW but asthe bare voice of men; I fay on the il contrary, if you write the fame words in] Parchment, or Paper, in a felected time, and put it upon a Serpent that is taken, in} what manner you will, he will remain and lie ftill, as if you had fpoken the famef words.
Neither is ic any wonder,that Medicin can help men not taken into the body ,f bur only hanged about the neck as Seals : For it is common co the Bladder with} Cantharides , Thac it eurneth his Urine?
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ee. Some Creatures do retain che fame vire meas) CUE after they are dead, as I prove by the ‘ti pird called the Kings Fifber, whole skin thea} Deing taken off from his carcafe, and being efi dried, and hanged up upon a nail, will caft f,ciy bis feathers many years,and new ones will 1, Brow agains and chat not only for one or Me yeers, but many ycers one after ano- i(e pesuer.
oT But if you further enquire, out of what . \Author or Writer I read of chefe virtues, 1f,q]0K where I learned fuch experience; I an-
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an, fat excel all the Auchors and Writers of gne world. I praytell me which of your - fu Authors or Writers caught the Bear,when —
us fight is dimmed by reafon of the abun- lance and fuperfluity of his blood, to go wiih? ftall of Bees, which by their ftinging sehim, pierce his skin, and caufe an éeffufion i 3 if the fuperfluous blood ¢ What Phyfi- ‘vag ad prefcribed the herb Ditrany to be me- ie H's os deine
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cine for the Hart 2. or who taught the Ser- }} [0 pent the virtue of Briony and Dragon- | wort’ who taught the Dog to take Grafs for his Cordial and Purge ¢ And who prefcribed the fal Sea-water to the Stork) for a Clyfter 2? Did you ceach this know~ ledgerothem ¢ or donorthey teach you ¢ The fame might I {peak of infinite ocher ther Animals, that know naturally che Cure Of} ind their own Difeafes. What! Have thes Pha Bruit-beafts taught the Medicinal Art 2jje If you fay, It’s a Natural inftin@,and thaey hi! Natureceacheth them, fo fay I roo. . T&} bod Nature hath infufed fo much reafon into} te: Bruit-beafts, how much more fhouldith men learnthereby, who are made accor-/fed ding to the Image of God, the Creator off} ne all things; and are indued with reafon} oi from God, to.confider and contemplate} cid fuch things ¢ 3 A fev Alfo co fay that. things. ourwardly. ap3) th plied, and nor fubftantially entring int@) px the body, cannot Cure any Difeafes, 1}: falfe : Forthe Sun,which giveth us lightd| pre warmth,.{plendor, and tofufeth life inta} A allthings, penetratech, into the moft | t cule and clofe Manfiens of the Barth; an¢ doth vivifie and quicken.all things thar lig) by under che earth, even to the centre thereofs| (;
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For whocan deny that in Spring-time, onlefpecially, the Sun peneeratech inco the i moft fecrer places of the earch, giving whol heat and warmceh thereunto, when ic (hines | only upon the upper part thereof ¢) From |whencethe roots of all things therein re- iceive juyce, ftrength, and life>-and why therefore may not che fplendorof Nature, coll and the influences of the Heavens, Sears, th Planets, and ocher means which we ufe to itl extra@ out of Merals, Herbs, Scones, and thi fuch like things, give their vireve into the § bodies of men, and penetrate inco the in» f @ as into
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§ fevera | them according to theit qua | peculiar dayesandtimes: Againft which W alfo,° Merals do beit of all helps “beitig | prepared and ufed in due time and means: it] Asif 1 fhould undertake to Cure the Le- | profie with Golds what fhould hindeés B but chat an Oyl madethereof may Cure ic ail by UnGion? Alfo, if 1 fhould anoint the § Small Pox with Oyl of Mercury, do you | H 4 ~ think
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chink I am ablero Cure them with this | Mercury? withoutdoubr; efpecially if Ef ( obferye a fitting time for this purpofe, without which laft means, all anointings are in vain, although the fick were bathed in Oyl of Mercury: But im fuch Difeafes. where the Mercurial medicines are not fuf- | ficient, we ought then to-ufe other reme. dies: which unlefs I fhould do, having a |(}} due re{pect to the obfervation of time, not | only the Un&ions, and all labor befides, wiil be vain and fruitlefs, but they will Be) bring the Patient into a worfe condition ¢ | for it is moft cercain,that Difeafes come to | ' men for the moft part from the power and | ; influences of the Sars upon the bodies of | ' men, yet not fo fuddenly that the fame can prefently be perceived, like a ftripe, or the | ‘ Falling-ficknefs. . Buc they doencreafe in procefsof time by little and little asit were a diftillation;: ss. oy] caufeth water to wax fat-by drops falling intoic. A man may al: fo perceive his own defeats, by the fhrink- ing or decaying of his Members, lofs of {9 Appetite to meat and drink, pain, cc. ace lV cording to the condition and property of {fh every Difeafe, che operations of the Srars, |} and the accidents by the Air, prepared and {@ atecaded upon US.3 i 0 fs ky c+
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He firtt thing to be. raken notice of in this) Difeafe, isthe fions'of the Falling ; whe-
ther they happen at certain equal times, months, dayes; | and hours, and how often 5 or whether} they be nnequal, happening at divers times 3. andj10« whether a little before they fall, che Patients dole ale to fhake and flagger-a liccle, of whether they |thi fall.co rhe ground {uddenly,and unawares: which jthe being perceived, if they fall at certain times and hours, then the Difeale doth nor take them {fo fuddenly ; neither do they prefently fall, But if it come at unequal times and hours, the contra=/tor ry will bé feen to happen ;: to wir, the falling the eomes upon them unawares. The firtt kind, to} fou wit, when there isa liccle Shaking and (taggering | ma before the fall,is morcal: Bue if they perceive Play che fall before it come, the Difeafe is accounted lye not to be fo-dangerous,but more Curables which} Co proceedeth not from Nature, as the firft 5 nor 18) and not Common therewith, wherfore it lefs weakens)! ech: The firft brings Phrenfie, and Madnefs ; but che orheris2 falling Difeale, The Cure of chefe,}i
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Re of the Spirit of Vitrio/, Quinteflence of Ay-
timony, each 5 drops. Quinteflence of Pearle, +} drops,
ont COMes Co the 12 degree of Cancer, then licnifie ithe Gold inan Earthen-pot , and then let ic be |pOured out into pure clean water. Afterwards
sh mark when there comes a Conjunction of two cil + Janets in che Heavens, and at thar time precife- ly melt geain chis. God, and in the point of the
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TheF Heat this Za a men Very hoshhue tis! in the fire,and}h: He then lec it refi}, : | until you findlyrh an the Moon ine pe the fame figne}y jr & degree chathynhy; fhe was in thor: ub oxipss:_\ the time of thelind |e - W—t-E. coming of the} 4 latt fit before s $ Iola and in the fame hia carve and ingrave thefef) y; Signs and Characters,beginning with the Letters ch as they are fet uppermoft , in the Lamen Of Gold le \in. and Silver, And you mutt make hafte, thar ‘the jing hy Figures and Marks be all madeand finifhed in fin. che fame hour, or elfe all your labor is in vairi, The figne of the Planer of the hour in which the Fit of the Difeafe fell, is firft to be engraven in the middle of the Escooehes as you may fee Ic Is in this foregoing Figure, which was made for James Seitz, Bithop of S alisburgh, now living; who fell in he hour of § : Make the reft of the Signes as you fee in rhe Figure, only chis excepted, that for } a Woman, inftead thereof you fhall put this Cha- racter: and under che other the Age of the Patient, as in the Figure you fhall fee 34, fo many yeers old was | the faid James Seitz. Therefore the
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Celeftial Medicines. 109 . |. The Figure being now: prepared according to ‘lathe direGtions’s after 2 Fit cometh, command y ig tha his Hair be fhaven off from the Crown of ilhis Head, actording co the Latitude of the La- ‘Itlimen : Then prefently where he fell and lieth, i in with arc and induftry pour fome of the Secret be- % lore prefcribed into his mouth, and {fo hold hin ‘iothat it may. defcend into his Stomach;. chen t htlForchwith apply the Lamen co the place fhaven, Wo that the Sculpture may couch the naked flefh, chhidannd let ic be bound onchac ic fall not off; which cilbeing done, let the Patient be carried to fome ores place where he may quietly fleep. And afterthac Fall, wichouc doubt he will never Fall more, .al+ Mutts) Hough he hath had the Difeafe 30 yeers: Bue Goer him alwayes wear the Lzmen about his neck, i'ttand fhave his Hair at every Months ‘end, in the ed ‘ame place where they were firft fhaven,
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of 2, engrave the Stones and Letters which you
ee written in che following Figure: Afrerwards ° etitin the hour of j make a Copper Lamen of the i!0fame Quantity and Form as the Leaden one; chy’ Evhen D is inthe figre vp, the Charasters which The yon
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€ TEIN RSE ODOR OR OOO }. 106 Paracelfus of you fee in the Figure, areto be engraven, And then borh Figures are to be kept and prefervedj-—— fo long until 9 comes mLo Conjunction with h ; and then in the point of the Conjunction both the Ficures are to be conjoyned together fo, rhat the Chara&ters and Signes may mutually touch one anorher; then Clofe them faft with Wax,that they receive no moifture, and iew them upin a) piece of Silk, and hang it abont che Neck of rhe Patient on the'day andhour of 3, This is thé beft Remedy to recover rhe Sight of the Eyes; arid'to preferve the Eyes from Pain and Difeafes, It ‘preferveth the Sight in old-Age, as perfect as it was'in yourh.
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Of Gold,3 {s, OF Silvery Su. OF Copper, 31 Of Tynne,5 il,
f ~iet them be all melced together in the point of the new Moon 3, ther peur them our, and of that Mafs make apiece of Plate of what Latitude ou will; Afrer thac thefe Metals have been melted together, they muft not be pur incothe © fire any more. Whenthe Planet is in his own Houfe , to wit, in, let thefe Chara&ers and Signes be engraven in the inner-fide of the Mo- ney, and inche back-fide of the Money let thofe - words be written which you fee in the follow- ing Figure, in the fuperior pare of rhe Circumfe-
#rence of the Money: then let there be made a
RRing of pure Gold, and affixed ther-unto wher the Moon is declining, for itto be hanged by: it matters not in what day the Ring be made, fo that ic be done inthe hour of ©, This Money being chus prepared, let ir be. hanged abour the Neck of the Patient inthe point of the new & Moon,
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