Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...

CHAP. XIII. To procure a mutuall love and affection betwixt a Man and his Wife.

THis use of Mumie is related to the for∣mer, only this must be especially ob∣served, (which for many reasons I modestly referre to the more prudent as followeth) Quod si Maritus uxori suam mumiam paret, loco herbarum Renibus dicatarum, Ʋterinas eligere necesse sit, quales sunt: Valeriana, Rosmarinus, Satureja, Arthemisia, Satyrion foemina, &c. Virtus enim appetitiva erga viros, quatenus in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 constituta est, faeminis in matrice situatur; Proinde Spiritus Mumiae appetitivae Epatis & Renum Virilium in praedictas herbas uterinas transplantetur, ut ita ductu earundem Spiritus Mumiae Masculae in locum a natura praemon∣stratum, matricem nempe feliciter dirigatur.

Quod si vero Uxor marito eandem intentant, loco uterinarum plantis, Seminibusve, membris vi∣rilibus naturali proprietate dicatis utatur, Satyrio nempe masculo, caepis & similibus; minime gentium vero menstruo, quousque tamen audaciae non raro ab improbis & incautis meretriculis perventum. Illud enim absque dubio deleterium est, citam mortem inferens. Et quanquam Sperma virile & foemineum

in plantam quandam translata, eo quo distum est modo & artificio, pares effectus edant, divina tamen lege illud prorsus interdictum Proinde ad usum prae∣dictum illa in substantia minime revocentur; Quin potius, ubi opus est, Spiritus eorundem terrae Mag∣neticae beneficio e lumbis extrahatur.

Yet I intend not this Mystery should be common to all, or that it should be practi∣sed by wicked persons, though such an action may be done to a laudable and good end, where the Husband may the more affecti∣onately enjoy his Wife, according to the bond of Matrimony, or where the Husband desireth it for propagation sake, which cannot be obtained by reason of discord from his wife; in which case the Husband may with a safe conscience meliorate her nature, and make it more tractable by his Mumie: And this Extraction of his Mumie according to the most learned Professors of this Philosophy must be done under the Exaltation of ♀ and when she is happily aspected with the ☽ & ♃, (as I have formerly noted.)

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