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&quot; flux of immateriate virtues ; and what the force of 

 &quot; imagination is ; either upon the body imaginant, or 

 &quot; upon another body ; wherein it will be like that 

 &quot; labour of Hercules, in purging the stable of Au- 

 &quot; geas, to separate from superstitious and magical 

 &quot; arts and observations, any thing that is clean and 

 &quot; pure natural ; and not to be either contemned or 

 &quot; condemned.&quot; 



In this spirit, mistaken for credulity, he says,* 

 &quot; the sympathy of individuals, that have been 

 &quot; entire, or have touched, is of all others the most 

 &quot; incredible ; yet according unto our faithful man- 

 &quot; ner of examination of nature, we will make some 

 &quot; little mention of it. The taking away of warts, 

 &quot; by rubbing them with somewhat that afterwards 

 &quot; is put to waste and consume, is a common experi- 

 &quot; ment ; and I do apprehend it the rather because of 

 &quot; my own experience. I had from my childhood a 

 &quot; wart upon one of my fingers : afterwards, when I 

 &quot; was about sixteen years old, being then at Paris, 

 &quot; there grew upon both my hands a number of 

 * warts, at the least an hundred, in a month s space. 

 s The English ambassador s lady, who was a woman 

 &quot; far from superstition, told me one day, she would 

 &quot; help me away with my warts : whereupon she got 

 &quot; a piece of lard with the skin on, and rubbed the 

 &quot; warts all over with the fat side ; and amongst the 

 &quot; rest, that wart which I had had from my child- 



* Art. 997, page 530. 



