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recommended in fimllar cafes, becaufe one poifon was 

 thought to drive out another. 



In the prefent ftate of knowledge, we fmile at the ad- 

 vancement of opinions fo flightly founded and conclafions 

 fo illegitimate ; and are apt to defpife without much in- 

 veftigation the notions of thofe who could ferioufly pro- 

 pound fuch fanciful abfurdities. Unluckily for phyfiog- 

 nomy, her votaries were among the foremoll in defence of 

 thefe dodtrines which may be feen in their full extent in the 

 writings of J. Baptiila Porta and Crollius : not to mention 

 the treatifes on the Signature of Things by Paracelfus 

 and Jacob Behmen, where fimilar notions are advanced in 

 conjunftion with the reveries of alchemical and myftical 

 theology, and phyfiognomy itfelf is treated at length by the 

 former as a branch of the philofophy of fignatures. Among 

 other phyfiognomical writers alfo who have fupported this 

 dodlrine of fignatures, may be reckoned Cardan* Campa- 

 nellaf and Alftedius.j The firft rule in the Medicina 

 Chemica of the latter is as follows. Reg. i^. Signaturae 

 rerum faciunt plurimum ad indagandas vires medicamen- 

 torum. Audiamus hdc de re Duncanum lib. IV. de Therapeutica 

 cap. VIII, Praterea in quit ad explorandas et indagundas iiires 

 Medica?nentoru»t, Paracelfus no'vam quandant Phyjiognomiam et 

 Chiromantiam excogita'vit , et ex Jignaturis rerum occult as 'vires 

 mceniendas ejfe putavit. Nam authore Paracelfo (libra de figna^ 

 iuris rerum, et libra de Perjicaria) natiira omtiia Jlgnanjit et 

 latentes vires cutis Jignis exprejjit nobifque tnanifejiavit. Signa- 

 tura autem alia externrs funt, ut forma figura liiiea/nenta et 

 finilia : aliee interna, fpagiricd et artificiofd preparalione intra- 

 duilit ; 'ueluti qua partis fimilitudinem habent ei potijjimum con- 

 ferunt , ut hepatica hepati ; euphrafia oculis ; haliacabum 'vefica ; 

 pulmoncs vulpis, pulmonibus, i^c. item lapidofa, et qua lapidofum 



• De SubtUItate. lib, VII, 



■J- De Senfu Rerum et Magia. Gaffarel Curiofitates in audits, cap. V, 



J Encyclup. fol. vol. II. p. 571. 



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