Medicina magnetica: or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy: laid open in aphorismes; proved in conclusions; and digested into an easy method drawn from both: wherein the connexion of the causes and effects of these strange operations, are more fully dicovered than heretofore. All cleared and confirmed, by pithy reasons, true experiments, and pleasant relations. / Preserved and published, as a master-piece in this skill. By C. de Iryngio, chirurgo-medcine [sic] in the Army.

AN APPENDIX: CONTAINING Diverse PRACTICES and OBSERVATIONS, Necessary to be known in this ART.

To the READER.

THat not any thing might be defi∣cient in so noble an Art as this, I have unfolded diverse of the most famous Magnetick-Medi∣cines and Cures that are known this day in the World. I intended to have gone through every Dis∣ease; but being called upon necessary occasions to Ireland, I am forc'd to break off this Work, and onely to give these as a Mercuriall Statue, to direct thee into the right way of Practice; And shall be willing, when occasion doth offer it self, to serve thee according to my abilities in this Art hereafter.

Accept therefore of my good-will and pains, and make not thy self by ingratitude, uncapable of other favours. Speak of this Book, as the great Philoso∣pher did of another's Work: Those things I under∣stand, are good; and I believe, those things I under∣stand not, are also such. If thou use it otherwayes, I care not for thy kindnesse; for, I live not by thy esteem or opinion; neither did thou ever put such a favour on me, as should oblige me to dance atten∣dance to thy humor. If thou be candid, I am glad to serve thee, and am confident, in these Books thou shalt finde things both rare and delectable: But if thy nature or principle make thee froward, Tecum ha∣bita, injoy thy self, and provide such Kick-shows as will fit thy Pallat: For Christie hath served up this dish only for his own fancy, and his friends recreation. Neither doth he fear the clouds (may be the natu∣rall ornament) of thy countenance: Though a little more of black bile, or wind, than ordinary, haerbour under the sinister part of thy Diaphragme: He thinks he ought to be allowed his folly, as well thou art permitted gravely, insanire cum ratione. But enough of this. I proceed to my purpose.

THE MAGNETICK CURE OF DISEASES, BY TRANSPLANTATION; Done by the true Mumia of PARACELS US.

ANY that is sick of the Jandise, Hydropsie, Leprosie, or of any such kind of Disease, let him in the Month of May, open, be sure the Median Vein in the right Arm, and receive into a glassvial with a stroop, so much blood as wil fill the shels of two Hen Eggs emptied, and whilest it is yet hot, put it into the empty shells of the Eggs, thus prepared: Take two or three new laid hens eggs, make a small hole in both the ends of each Egg, empty them both of white and yolk, then close up one of the holes in the ends with the striffin of the yolk or white, with glew, or some tenacious matter; then let it dry, and after make it fully up with chalk, mix'd with the white of an egg, and let it dry again. Into the

shells thus prepared, the blood warm as it floweth from the Arm being put, is to be suffered to stand a little: Then the hole which remains in each Egg is to be shut up after the same manner, as before it was in the other end, and let it dry. Then two or three of these Eggs full of the sick-mans blood, and thus shut up, are to be put under a hen that bringeth forth young ones▪ either with other Eggs that are to be hatch'd; or with Eggs full of other sick-mens blood, prepared as before, which will have the same effect. The hen having sitten upon them fourteen or twenty dayes, according to the custome; Take out from under the Hen, the Magnetick Eggs, lay them apart for a day; then open them, and thou shalt find the blood of the sick-man by that digestion become monstruous, and of a most vile smell: mix this with new bread, or other meat, and give it to a Sow, or a Dog to be eaten, which hath been kept up from meat two or three dayes. Then thou shalt perceive sensibly the Disease to leave the man, and infect the beast: Which beast, after it hath been kept secure some weeks, is to be killed, lest if it get loose, it hurt other men. By this true Mumia of Paracelsus, may be cured Leprosies, Jaundise, Gouts, Hydropsies, Consumptions, Cancers, and other Diseases: and it will work other great effects; which for fear of the ill, I shall be loath to discover in this Treatise; sed verbum sapienti sat est. Onely take notice, that putrifaction, or rather fermentation, is here, as it were, the Key in the hand of Nature, to open the Circumference, that is, the ports of their destinat Mumie to forms, which be∣fore lay shut up, and hid in the Center of quiet∣nesse.

The Lamp of Life.

TAke of man's blood warm as it floweth from the vain▪ and the like quantity of the vegetable-dew of the Am∣pbibious Jupiter, being purified, put it in a Pellican placed in the belly Balnei, suffer it to rise till the third part of

the Pellican fill the whole Pellican: for mans blood in the philosophical preparation thereof, is ever dilated in quantity, though not in weight. This Digestion is accomplished in, or about fourty dayes time; in which, that which is pre∣cious goeth apart from that which is vile: for, you shall see that which is white, phlegmatick and unprofitable, swimming above; but a golden substance in the bottom. So soon as it cometh to this passe, rectifie it in Balneo; by this means the phlegm shall withdraw it self, and the my∣sterious substance shall remain in the bottom. This being done, thou shalt by degrees raise it to its own exaltation, nine times, in retorts fit for the quantity of the matter, and sealed Hermetically: Then make of it a Lamp, which cannot be extinguished. This must be fired with the fire of Nature, and not the fire of Vulcan; which is the great mysterie in this matter.

This Lamp burneth so long as he liveth of whose blood it is made, and expireth with him. If it burn clearly and quietly, it sheweth his condition to be such; if sparkling, dim, and cloudie, it sheweth his griefs and languishings.

The Pouder of Sympathy, for curing of Wounds.

The simple Pouder.

TAke what quantity you think fit of Alcaleadis Romani, and after first dissolution in clear Spring-water, then filtration through gray paper, with evaporation on a clear fire, and coagulation in a fit place: And all these opera∣tions so oft reiterated, till being purged from its drosse, its clear greennesse bear witnesse of its purity: beat this into grosse pouder, and expose it to Sun beams, the Sun being in Leo, for the space of three hundred and sixty hours; that is, as some believe, for the space of fifteen or eighteen days, till it be calcin'd into a fine white pouder, which is the surest mark of its right preparation; and therefore is to be kept in the Sun, till it come to this smal∣nesse and colour; though it be longer than the time ap∣pointed. The Sun enters Leo about the twenty fifth day of

July, 'tis better to begin your operation two or three dayes after, that you may be sure the Sun is in the right Signe. Expose it onely to the Sun in clear and dry dayes; lest if the day be moist or misty, it spoil the Medicine with humidity: Neverthelesse, if after it is fully prepared, it by mischance become moist or liquid, you are with a gentle heat, to reduce it again to its own form. This Pou∣der, being kept in a dry place, endureth many years in its full force and vertue.

The Compounded Pouder,

IS made of the simple Pouder, and Gum Tragacant, subtil∣ly pulveriz'd, and mixt with it almost in the same quantity. Some Artists mix also the pouder of Comfory dryed in the shade: but of this, consult experience.

The virtue.

THe simple Pouder cureth all wounds whatsomever, yea, of Gun-shot it self: And those wounds that have been esteem'd deadly, have been cured by it, as wounds of the Guts, Bladder, &c.

The Compound Pouder cureth wounds that have joyn'd with them the fracture or fissure of a bone.

The use and application.

TAke a piece of Linen cloath, or any other cloath, and in necessity, take any stick, stone, &c. And dip in the bloud as it floweth out, if the wound be externall; But, where the wound is internall, put it into the wound, that it may touch each part thereof: then sprinkle the cloath, or other water besmeered with the blood of the wound, with the Sympathick Pouder, then lap up the said cloath thus dressed, into another clean cloath, and keep it in a temperate place, as near or far from the Patient as you please; but a moderate distance is best. Wash the wound immediatly with warm wine, or with the Patients own

Urine; then apply clean cloaths to the wound each other day, or oftener, as the flowing of the matter requires; and keep all the cloaths that are fouled with the matter, lap∣ped up together in a place likewayes of good tempera∣ture.

If the wound be become ulcerous before the Artist see it, he is to follow the same method with the Pus or matter that floweth out of the wound, that is appointed in a re∣cent wound.

If the wound be with a fractured bone; if any place thereof be bared of the periost, he must remove it. After having besprinkled a cloath dip'd in the blood with the Compound-pouder, and having lap'd it up, as aforesaid, he must set the bones, and use the apparell fit for fractures.

If the wound be inflamed with a hot temperature, you must put the cloaths that are infected with the blood or matter of the wound, into a cold place, as under the earth, or into a peuter-box set in cold water, till the wound come to its own habit again: But, if the wound be of a cold temperature, you must put it in an hot place, &c.

If the wound be very sordid, you must mix greater quantity of the Sympathick pouder, than of the Gum: But if it smart, you must mix more of the Gum than of the Pouder.

Some hold the pouder may be calcin'd by fire; but I have not seen it to do good.

Others, and with more reason, hold, it may with good successe be calcin'd with the heat of a mans body, by carry∣ing it in his pocket, &c.

But I leave these to every mans experience, having set down faithfully and fully this receipt, which used to be sold for twenty pounds. I know some will envy to see their secret laid open: but I esteem more of the Publick good, than any private interest.

The WEAPON-SALVE; According to the true Description of the Noble Chymist, OSWALD CROLLIUS.

TAke of the fat of a Wild-Bore: Of the fat of a Bear, of each four ounces: The older the beasts are, so they be within seven years, the better the fat is. Let both of these fats boil in Claret for the space of half an hour on a gentle fire, then pour out the fats upon cold water; gather that with a spoon, which swimmeth above, but what goeth to the bottome, is not at all to be used. Afterwards, Take of Red-Worms, gathered after rain, (which are of great use in the affections of the Nerves) wash'd in wine or water lib. ij. let them be dryed in an earthen pot in a Bakers Oven, but beware they burn not; afterwards reduce them to powder. Then

Take the Brain of a Wild-bore, first macerate a little in his own bladder and urine, and afterwards dryed:

Take of this pouder:

Of sweet-smelling Yellow-Sanders,

Of Mumie of Aegypt,

Of Blood-stone, of each one Ounce. Lastly take

Of Usn••a, or the Mosse which grows on the scull of a man that hath died a violent death (he that is hanged is best.) This Mosse must be gathered in the waxing of the Moon, and when she is in a good House, viz. if pos∣sible, in Venus, not in Saturn or Mars, of this one drachm.

Of all these, being beat and mix'd with the fats, an ointment is to be made according to Art: which is to be kept in a close Glasse or Box for your use.

If, through processe of time, the ointment become dry, it is again to be relaxed with the foresaid fat, or Virgin honey.

The ointment must be prepared while the Sun is in Li∣bra, that is, in the Harvest-time.

The vertues of this Ointment.

THis Ointment cures all wounds whatsomever, whether by thrust, stroak, gun-shot, or whatsomever way else they be got; If you can but get the weapon that gave the wound, though the wounded person be many miles di∣stant from the Artist. And because this ointment is of a conglutinative, suppurative, and incarnative faculty, It hin∣dereth any hurtfull symptom to arise, if it be rightly ap∣plyed.

The Use in diverse Observations.

FIrst, anoint every day once, the weapon wherewith the Party is wounded, if necessity requires it, and the greatnesse of the wound: otherwayes, it will be enough to have anointed it each second or third day: keep it in a clean linen cloath, or allumed goats-leather, keep it in a warm place, but not over hot, neither ugly, lest it hurt the Patient: Also have a care that no dust fall on the weapon, nor that the wind blow thereon in a cold place, otherwayes the Patient will be much troubled.

Secondly, If the wound be made by a thrust, anoint the weapon, beginning at the point, and proceeding to the handle, otherwayes the Patient will suffer: But if the wound be by a cut, the weapon is to be anointed from the edge to the back.

3. Anoint the part of the weapon that entered the wound; If thou know not this, for more security, anoint it all.

4. It is not needfull to sew up the wound, as Barbi∣tonsors do, It is enough every day to tye it up in clean li∣nen, moistned in the Patients Urine, or in warm wine or water.

5. Let both Artist and Patient abstain from Venery, that day the weapon is anointed.

6. The blood in the wound is to be stopped, before the weapon be anointed.

7. In a Compound-wound with fractures or fissures of the bone, you must adde to the ointment, either some of the pouder of Comfry, or Osteocoll, or of the roots of black Hellebor.

8. To know if the Patient will die or live: Upon clear Coals warm the weapon, so, that thou may hold it in thy hand, then besprinkle it with the subtill pou∣der of sandals, and of a blood-stone: If it sweat drops of blood, he will surely die: if not, he will escape.

9. If the Patient keep not a good diet in his Cure, spots of blood will appear on the weapon; if they appear not, he observes your precepts.

If you cannot get the Weapon wherewith the Wound was made:

1. Then, put a sallow stick in the wound; which be∣ing imbrued in the blood thereof, let it dry of it self, with∣out the help of the Sun or Fire: Then stick it in a Box of this ointment, and let it remain there untill the wound be fully cured.

2. The stick once dip'd in the blood will suffice: If the wound be big, it must each day be dressed with clean linen.

3. One stick will suffice but for one wound: Each new wound must have a new stick.

4. If the wound will not bleed, scarifie it with the stick till it bleed.

5. In the Tooth-ach, scarifie the gum of the pained Tooth till it bleed; then let the blood dry on the fleme with which you scarifie, and after anoint it with your ointment, and it shall cure the pain.

6. If a horse be pricked in the quick, draw out the nails, anoint it, and the horses foot shall be quickly cured, without coming to suppuration. After the same manner may all other wights be cured, that consist of flesh and blood.

Take Notice.

1. This ointment is of no efficacy, except it have the Mosse of his scull mixed with it, that is violently put to death.

2. Except the weapon be besmeared with the blood of the wound dryed on it, the operation is in vain.

3. The Artist at his pleasure, may put ease or pain up∣on the Patient, by the weapon.

4. Fractures and fissures are not well cured, except the pouder of Comfry or Osteocoll be mixt with the ointment.

5. The weapon is diversly to be anointed in thrusts and cutts.

6. The intemperance of the Patient is discovered by the Artist in the weapon.

The Magnetick Cure of the Yellow Jandise by Application.

TAke of the Urine of the Patient, as much as thou wilt, mix it with the ashes of an ash-tree, bake it into dough, and make little Cakes thereof; Then make a little hole in each Cake, and put therein a little saffron, with a little of the Patients Urine; let it evaporate at the fire; and as the Urine consumes, the disease shall evanish.

A Magnetick transplantation of the Gout.

TAke of the hairs, and the pairings of the nails on the feet and hands of the Patient; bore a hole in an oke∣tree to the pith; put them therein, and closing up the hole, cover it round about with Cow-dung, and within three months the Disease shall evanish.

The Magnetick Cure of Ulcers.

TAke either Arsmart, or Comfrey, or Flix-weed, &c, dip them in cold water, and apply them cold to the ulcer,

till they become warm; then bury them in a clayish ground, as they rot, the ulcer cures.

The Magnetisme of Asarabacca.

IF a man pull the leaves of Asarabacca upward, it will cause the person to whom he gives it, to vomit: But if he pull them downward, it will onely cause him to purge by the siege. This same Magnetisme is found in the tops of the Alder or Boor-tree▪

This far have I set down some Magnetick Cures, which may serve to direct thee in the rest, I have not touched: Now I shall set down some of the most common Magne∣tismes in Nature, which every man may put to tryall, and find out the truth thereof, if he will but allow a little cost and labour.

The first, of the Vine.

IT's well known by the Vintners of France and other places▪ That when the Vine beginneth to put forth her flowrs, all that time the wines in the hogs-heads are troubled: And as the flowrs are earlier or later, according to the di∣versity of the Climates, so this troubling of the wine observeth their seasons: and, which is most wonderfull of all, in Countreys where Vines grow not, the wine is not at all troubled. The same cometh to passe in Ale, when the Barley flourisheth.

The second, Magnetick impressions of the breeding∣mother upon the Embrio.

WOmen, having strong affections, whether of desire or fear, give frequently impressions to the Child in the womb; whereof I will tell you two Magnetick Histo∣reis. A Belgick Woman being big-bellyed, had a desire to a Cherry which another was eating; and in time of her greatest longing, she touch'd her brow with her finger;

the Child being come to age, retain'd the impression of the Cherry on his fore-head. This kept such a Magnetick har∣mony with Cherries, that it was greenish, whitish, yellowish, and red, as the Cherries chang••d their season and colours: And, which is most admirable and Magnetick, In Spain, where the Cherries sooner ripen than in Flanders, it sooner became red than at home, still observing a sympathie with Cherries of the Countrey where he was.

The second is this; When in the last Northern Scots Expedition, in my Imployment I attended that vertuous and valiant Gentleman, Colonel William Mitchel; In a Village within three miles of Rothymay, I found one Henderson, whose mother being big of him, was affrigh∣ted at the sudden shining of the Moon into a dark room where she was; and he thereby received an impression of a Moon on his thigh, which doth not onely change with the Moon its figure, but with the weather his colour. A day before wind it becometh reddish; before rain, pale; and in fair-weather, it keepeth its own colour. And this, the next adjacent Farmers observe, as a certain Progno∣stication, how to dispose of their future Labours.

The third, A Magicall Magnetisme, out of the famous Van Helmont.

TAke the Heart of a Horse, which is by a Witch killed; Take it hot out of him, and strike a nail thorough it; then broil it on the Coals, or on a Spit rost it: And the heart of the Witch shall be so tormented with heat and pain, that she will come in all haste to the fire, and use all means to take away the heart.

The fourth, Of the Musicall Magnetisme of the Tarantula.

THe Tarantula is a kind of Spider found in Apulia in Italy; They are of diverse dyes, spotted and waved with diverse Colours: These by their bites, cause the per∣son

whom they wound, to affect those Colours, which are most seen in the wounding Tarantula: Yea, the Pati∣ents are so taken up with a cloth of that dye, that they have oft been seen to embrace it, to kisse, to flatter it, lay their face, their cheeks, and body to it, not omitting any mimick gesture that is used by those that are love∣frantick. And, as one poisoned by a Tarantula, cannot be cured but by Musick; so, each Instrument of that Art, and each Lesson doth not please them: but analogous to the nature of the Spider that bit them, the Musick and tone must be: And, which is very admirable, one Lesson scarce ever cureth the bites of two of these Spi∣ders; As was seen at Tarentum in a Spaniard, who not believing this, caused himself to be bit by two Tarantu∣la's; and having called the Musicians, could not at all be recovered: for, when that tone that agreed with the nature of the one was playd, he would move his head and arms, and endeavour to raise his body, till the poison of the other did check this motion, and cause him suddenly fall down; And though all Musick and means had been used, he perished miserably: for, the poisons of the two Taran∣tula's, being (as themselves) of contrary qualities, were onely to be cured by contrary tunes, which was not pos∣sible. They that are venomed by the bite of a Tarantula, at first think it no more than the bite of an ordinary flye; but in procesle of time, their infection produce diverse diseases; as losse of appetite, burning feavers, pain of the joynts, and a colour like the Jandise over the whole body; and the next Summer after the bite, some of them that are poisoned, become stupid; others frantick; some al∣wayes weep, some laugh; some sleep, some wake, &c. and in a word, there is no gesture used by fools or mad∣men, but some or other of the diseased are infected with it. In the Cure (wherein the Magnetisme is most seen) they thus proceed: They call Musicians, who tuning up their Instruments, play diverse tunes; at which the Pa∣tient sits as he were a statue, or immoveable: but, if once that tune be hit, which sympathiseth with the nature of

his infection, he beginneth to move his head, feet and hands, and on a sudden falleth a-dancing, till with motion and sweat he fall down wearied: And thus they proceed at sundry times, till the poison be evaporated. If the Musician play false, or alter the Magnetick tune, the diseased by gestures, shew both pains and dislike: And it hath been observed, the Spider will dance to his Mag∣netick tune.

The fifth, The Magnetisme of the Magnes it self.

THis Art is called Magnetick from the Magnes, (the Load stone) so called from the sheep-herd, that found it out first in the Mount Ida, by seeing his sheep-hook armed with iron, stick fast to the Magnetick stones. This is a Mineral stone, indued by. Nature with determinate points of its vertues, whereby it both draws Iron to it; and disposeth the situation of the Iron, according to its own situation, that is, maketh the situation thereof Po∣lar: Its two great Magnetisms then, are, first to draw Iron at a distance from it, to it self: And secondly, to direct the situation of this Iron to be Polar: So, it operateth without an immediate Physical contaction, by a certain hidden vertue therein; which cannot be found out, nor performed by Elementary qualities. And for this reason, we call those Motions in Nature, Magnetick: which by a hidden consent, move locally one towards the other, or remove from the other. And after this manner of speak∣ing, all Sympathies and Antipathies are called Magnetick motions. This is wonderfull in the Load stone, that it draw∣eth hot Iron as well as cold, and doth not onely commu∣nicate his vertue to Iron to draw other Iron; as you may see a Needle taken up by the Magnes, to take up an other at its point, and so to proceed in others, till it represent a Chain: But also hath a spiritual force, which never fail∣eth; which is in every part thereof: for, it being broke, each part hath the same vertue with the whole; which penetrateth all things, not hurting any; for, nor any thing

hindereth its operations, though placed betwixt it and its object; which worketh at distance, as is said, and that without a mean or meddle; for, it moveth all things di∣stant from it, though not troubling what is intermediate: Yea, it giveth that to another it hath not it self; for, it gi∣veth vertue to the Needle in the Compass to move to the Pole, which it cannot do it self.

This is that Miracle of Nature, that hath defatigated the Bravest Wits: This is that, that directs the tallest Ships in their greatest deviations or darknesse: This is that, that hath been discovered in so many Learned Vo∣lums. And, to conclude, This is that, that vindicates our Noble Art from the blemishes of vanity or superstition; and patronizeth this singular gift of the first Intellect, from the calumnies of the ignorant and malignant, who should not contemne, but be thankfull for the revelation of great and usefull Mysteries; Sed,

Suum cuique ordini vulgus est, & semper optima paucissi∣mis placuerunt.

FINIS.