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- P. It is to he had in, and brought from Arabia, and Zeiland.
- M. It's of the kind of the Rubie and the Sapphir.
- N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Pitdah. Gall. Topasse. Ital. Topatio.
TOpas. Pli••. K. as the prasoide, and chrysopter. T.V. Ru. Myl. Alcas. it helps against the lunatick passion, and varieth its ver∣tues according to the variation of the moon. Alcas. Abulens. Berchor. Ru. it appeaseth anger, represseth luxurie, and restraineth ve∣nery. Alcas: it's good against sadnesse. Alcas. Vincent. Arnold. it's good universally against noxious motions, that is, the perturbations of evill appetites. Myl. Ru. it's reported to drive away folly and mad∣nesse, and divert suddain death. It's good against the eruptions of bloud, therefore being applied to a wound, it presently stoppeth the bloud. Myl. it's good against the dropsy and tabes. Plin. Alcas. it's the biggest of all jewels. Albert Ru. Alcas. being cast into seething water it hindreth the boiling thereof, and so tempereth the fleat thereof, that the bare hand may be presently put therein, without any hurt. Alcas. Strab. Eustach. it is of such excellent splendor, that in the day time, it cannot be looked upon, Vincent. Berchor. Abulens. exceeding all jewels in brightnesse. So Ambros. Alcas. Myl. Vieg. Myl. Paracels. it shineth in the night: some say that being rubbed upon a whetstone of Cyprus, it produceth an oile which will cure diseases in the eyes. Aldrov. it's of a solar nature, and so strength∣ens the vitall faculty, and helps night feares and melancholy, as also the fluxes of bloud: it helps the asthma and pestilence, so the Chry∣solite.