Part I.

Uldericus Balk, a dominican friar, publiflied a book at Frankfort in the year 1611, concerning the lamp of life ; in which we fhall find (taken from Paracelfus) the true magnetical cure of many difeafes, viz. the dropfy, gout, jaundice, &c. For if thou fhalt enclofe the warm blood of the fick in the lhell and white of an egg, which is expofed to a nourifhing warmth, and this blood, being mixed with a piece of flefh, thou fhalt give to a hungry dog, the diforder departs from thee into the dog ; no otherwife than the leprofy of Naaman pafled over into Gehazi through the execration of the pro- phet.
If women, weaning their infants, fhall milk out their milk upon hot burning coals, the bread: foon dries.
If any one happens to commit nuifance at thy door, and thou wilt prevent that beaddy trick in future, take the poker red-hot, and put it into the ex- crement, and, by magnetifm, his poderiors fhall become much fcorched and inflamed.
Make a fmall table of the lighted:, whited:, and bafed: kind of lead ; and at one end put a piece of amber, and, three fpans from it, lay a piece of green vitriol; this vitriol will foon lofe its colour and acid: both which ef- fects are found in the preparation of amber. The root of the Caroline thif- tle being plucked up when full of juice and virtue, and tempered with the mummy of a man, will exhaud: the powers and natural ftrength out of a man, on whofe fliadow thou ihalt ftand, into thyfelf.
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