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force to move gravel., and to dissolve the stone : in 

 somuch, as laid but to the wrist, it hath so forcibly 

 sent down gravel, as men have been glad to remove 

 it, it was so violent. 



96. It is received, and confirmed by daily expe 

 rience, that the soles of the feet have great affinity 

 with the head and the mouth of the stomach ; as we 

 see going wet-shod, to those that use it not, affecteth 

 both : applications of hot powders to the feet at 

 tenuate first, and after dry the rheum : and there 

 fore a physician that would be mystical, prescribeth, 

 for the cure of the rheum, that a man should walk 

 continually upon a camomile-alley ; meaning, that 

 he should put camomile within his socks. Likewise 

 pigeons bleeding, applied to the soles of the feet, 

 ease the head : and soporiferous medicines applied 

 unto them, provoke sleep. 



97. It seemeth, that as the feet have a sympathy 

 with the head, so the wrists and hands have a sym 

 pathy with the heart ; we see the affects and passions 

 of the heart and spirits are notably disclosed by the 

 pulse : and it is often tried, that juices of stock- 

 gilly-flowers, rose-campian, garlick, and other things, 

 applied to the wrists, and renewed, have cured long 

 agues. And I conceive, that washing with certain 

 liquors the palms of the hands doth much good : 

 and they do well in heats of agues, to hold in the 

 hands eggs of alabaster and balls of crystal. 



Of these things we shall speak more, when we 

 handle the title of sympathy and antipathy in the 

 proper place. 



