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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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51186.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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catch the Serpent alive, he will find the Stone if he charm it, it will vomit up the Stone. Hang up, I say, the Serpent alive, and suffu∣migate it with Laurel, conjuring it in this man∣ner; By him who created thee, to whom that cloven Tongue of thine does often devoutly pray, if thou wilt give me the stone, I will not hurt thee, yea, I will let thee go home again to thy Friends. And af∣ter it has vomited up the Stone, gather it in a clean silken Mantle, and keep it. The Ver∣tue of this Stone is tried thus; Fill a brazen Bowl full of Water, and tie the Stone about the Bason, and so you will find the Water e∣very day to decrease two Pints, i. e. a Quart. For I once tied this Stone about a Woman in a Dropsie, and she was cured: I say, I measu∣red her Belly with a Line, and every day it fell above four Fingers, till her Belly return∣ed into its Compass, and then I took it away: For if I had let the Stone tarry on any longer, I should have dried up even the natural Moisture. The Stone, I say, is proper, carried to a measure: For being carried about one, it is not only good for a Dropsie, but also it has sympathy with a Defluxion into the Feet, and with a Rheum in the Eyes, and with a rheuma∣tick Head, or any other part; and upon ac∣count of its Nature, it cures them of over much Moisture.