e-tuicen, 
Olthe Bezaar ſtone and : 
is et maſt certaintie anvtrueth. There is an other Bezsar; 
that is a Minerall fone in the lande of Egypte at diuers 
tolours, ot the which, they y haue heretofoꝛe wꝛitten, haue 
detlared great maruelles thereof in their bookes , but fuss 
haue pꝛosued nsthing of this Pinerall ſtone: J haue ers 
perimented them, but they haue profited nothing. But the 
Bez aar ſtone that is taken out of the beaſts which we haue 
x te ofbefoze, we haue tryed the vertus thereofby expe⸗ 
fr ce, they 
And beeing giuen to him that bath bene bytten ol a 
venomous beaft, and being applied to the place, he ſhall be 
bealevand delineredtheref by the help of God. Theſe thai 
kinde of edicines haue been pꝛoued in al kinde ef venoms 
that ars in the woꝛldt, that is to ſax, the ſede of the (sdron:, 
ths Cmseraides t the Bez aur tone of the beaſt. The ſame is 
recited in the 4. Chapter. T wa thinges doe ſhew that ther 
are of impoꝛtance as wel as their vertues:that theſe Hones 
are ingendꝛed in the gawles ofthe beats, it ſemeth that it 
tarrieth great reaſon, fo that wee fos in many beaſtes that 
tones are ingendꝛed in their galols:the other is as they {ay 
that they doe ingender by little andltttle, the which appea⸗ 
teth by the ſhales thatthey are compounded of, 
Alices à man very wel learned, wzote not of this ſtont 
in particular, as of many other things, and being bozne in 
Perfia ot the Citie of Bocara, he ſhould haue had moꝛe knows 
ledge then the Mooꝛes beeing Spaniardes, which doe par⸗ 
ticularly wʒite thereof, onely hee doseth touche it in the ft» 
sond Canon in p fourth Chapter ſaying, that the medicines 
Which of their one pꝛopertie do woꝛke againſt the malice 
er venome, dadeth erentplifie in Triacle and in the Be- 
zaar ſtone: and hee fpeaketh moze after warde, that the 
Criacle and the Beg ar ſtane are tives thinges, whic 
doe conterue the health andthe vertue of the ſpirites, that 
thepimay expall the dename from them; aud an” 
