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CHAP. CXII. Of the Magnetick or Attractive Curing of Wounds. A Disputation concerning the Attractive, Natural, and Lawful Curing of Wounds; against R. P. John Roberti, Doctor of Divinity, an Elder of the Society of Jesus; no less than also against Rodolph Goclenius, Professor of Medicine.
1. Witchcraft, Sympathy or Co-suffering, and Magnetism or Attraction do dif∣fer. 2. One Ointment is called Sympathetical, another Magnetical. 3. What Mummy is. 4. Phylosophy is immediately reproved by Reasons onely. 5. The difference of Law, and Phylosophy. 6. From an ignorance of the Cause, Magna∣tism is accounted a Devil. 7. Who may be the Interpreters of Nature. 8. Why Alchymists onely can Interpret Nature. 9. He is proud, who from an ignorance of the Cause, believes a thing to be of the Devil. 10. Who are the Devils flatter∣ers. 11. Magnetism is no new Invention. 12. The Armary or Weapon-un∣guent. 13. The intent, aim, remedies or ingredients, and manner in the Ointment, are good, 14. Why the Unguent is not unlawful. 15. Why it is not Super∣stitious. 16. What Superstition is. 17. Why the manner of the Unguent being unknown to the censurer, can nothing disprove it. 18. What Magnetism is. 19. Some Effects of the Load-stone. 20. The Magnetical Cure of incurable Dis∣eases is perfect. 21. Milk being burned dries up the Dugs. 22. Vitriol dies through Magnetism or Attraction. 23. Mummy operates from Italy even to Bruxels. 24. The Carline Thistle, under the shade, draws wonderfully. 25. Like∣wise the same Disease in number changeth its Subjects. 26. That from Magne∣tism, Flowers are followers of the Sun. 27. Mummies which are Philtrous or pertaining to Love, how they are attractive. 28. That the Arcanum or secret of the Blood, is the Load-stone of Alchymists. 29. Herbs, why, and after what sort they are Attractive. 30. Asarabacca, and the Elder are Magnetical. 31. An implicite compact or covenant, is the Anchor of the Ignorant. 32. Sympathy presupposeth a sense or feeling. 33. The Mummy of a Dead Bro∣ther, being long since impressed on a seat, is as yet attractive. 43. The Saphire is an imitator of the Unguent in Magnetism. 35. The Saphire, by touching of one Carbuncle, cures others. 36. Why the Prelates of the Church wear skie-coloured Rings. 37. Man hath his Load-stone. 38. An Amulet for the Plague. 39. It is of necessity, that the same accident should pass from subject into subject. 40. Magnetism is an heavenly quality. 41. A Thief, Robber or Murderer, and an honest Man, or Woman, afford the same Mosse of their dead skull. 42. From whence, and what the seed of that Mosse is. 43. The fruit of the Air. 44. That Usnea or Mosse is a fruit of Fire. 45. In that Mosse also, is the Back of the Load-stone, the scope being changed. 46. God in Miracles, follows Nature. 47. God approves of the Magnetism of the Unguent by Reliques. 48. A super∣natural