The Magick of Kirani, King of Persia, and of Harpocration containing the magical and medicinal vertues of stones, herbes, fishes, beasts, and birds : a work much sought for by the learned but seen by few : said to have been in the Vatican-Library in Rome but not to be found there nor in all the famous libraries of the empire / now published and translated into English from a copy found in a private hand.

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The Magick of Kirani, King of Persia, and of Harpocration containing the magical and medicinal vertues of stones, herbes, fishes, beasts, and birds : a work much sought for by the learned but seen by few : said to have been in the Vatican-Library in Rome but not to be found there nor in all the famous libraries of the empire / now published and translated into English from a copy found in a private hand.
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Printed in the year 1685.
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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a Sheep, well known to all. Of the Sewet, and Marrow of this, Soap is made with-Figtree or Oak ashes: For it is good for many things. But another sayes, it has such actions as these. If therefore you cut off its right horn, and make a Comb of it, and shall comb the right side of the head, when the Hemicrania is on that side, with this Comb, you will cure it. For you must comb the right side with the right, and the left with the left. When the Sun is in Aries, gather its dung and dry it, and apply it with Vinegar for the Head-ach, and it will give ease. And the Worms, that are in the inside of the horn, given in Drink, are most efficacious for

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Love. The Horns also suffumigated, open the suffocation of the Matrix. The Lungs also of a Sheep eaten fasting, preserve one from Drunkenness, and how much soever he drink, he will not feel it. And its Liver taken out fresh and reeking, and applied to a Woman's Cheeks, makes her Face well coloured and beau∣tiful. And its Sewet is useful in Pessaries. And the Lungs of a Lamb dried and powder∣ed, and given in Drink, cure them that are hurt by Poyson. And the Gall and Blood of a Lamb cure the Falling Sickness.

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