BOOK II. PART I.

MAGNETISM.
In our following Treatife of Magnetifm we have collected and arranged in order fome valuable and fecret things out of the writings of that molt learned chemift and philofopher Paracelfus, who was the ornament of Ger- many and the age he lived in. Likewife we have extracted the very marrow of the fcience of Magnetifm out of the copious and elaborate works of that moil celebrated philofopher (by fire) Van Helmont, who, together with Pa- racelfus, induftrioufly promulgated all kinds of magnetic and fympathetic cures, which, through the drowfinefs, ignorance, unbelief, and obftinacy of
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MAGNETISM.