A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...

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Title: A lapidary, or, The history of pretious [sic] stones with cautions for the undeceiving of all those that deal with pretious [sic] stones / by Thomas Nicols ...
Author: Nicols, Thomas.
Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] :: Printed by Thomas Buck ...,; 1652.
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Subject terms: Precious stones -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XLI. Of the Glossopetra, or Tongue-stone.

THe Glossopetra is a stone of the similitude of a Tongue.

The place.

It is found in the Alume-mines near Luneberg.

Its vertue and value.

[Description of the stone.] It is reported that the wearing of this stone will preserve men from poysons, and from witchcrafts; * 1.1 and that if poyson be present in the room where it is, it will sweat. Boet. It is a vile stone of very small worth.

Notes

* 1.1

Plin. lib. 37. cap. 19.

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