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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PHOCA, a Porc-pisce or Seal, is a Sea-Animal, of which mention has been often made. The Fat of this in a Fume, presently helps a Lethargy and Fits of the Mother. And as much Seal's Rennet as a Vetch in bigness drunk, cures Quartane Agues. And drunk in like man∣ner, it cures backward Convulsions. Also, if any one carry about him a Seal's Rennet, he will overcome all his Adversaries in Law. If you tie a Thong of it about a Bottle, and give it them to drink that are bitten by a mad Dog, or to one mad, he will presently recover. And the Skin, wheresoever it is put in an House, or in a Ship, or if it be carried about one, no Mischief can betide them: For it averts all Thun∣der, Storms, Dangers, Enchantments, Devils, Wild-beasts, Thieves, and Nocturnal Invasions. But one must have with it the Sea Stone of Coral. And it is good for the Gout, to wear Shooes made of its Skin. And the Hairs of its Nostrils, with the Heart carried about one, are Fortune and great Favour to him.