Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France

Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.

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Wonderful Secrets which must be collected and compounded according to the Influences of the Stars, to cure the In∣firmities hereafter specified in a short time. CHAP. IV.

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For the King's Evil.

This Infirmity is caused by Luna. Take the Boughs and Roots of Castors, in the hour of Mars or Mercury; beat them, and apply them in form of an Emplaster. Maiden-hair doth the same.

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