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excefTewere in any remedy that were applied to the wound it 

 felf : likewifc if the medicated weapon or bloudy cloth, be kept 

 too clofe, no cflfe& fblloweth: likewife,the natures of the things 

 ufed in thefe cures are of themfelves foveraigne for healing the 

 like griefs, though peradventure too violent if they were apply - 

 ed in body without much attenuation. 



And truly if we will deny all effects of this kind, we muft in 

 a manner renounce all humane faith: men of all forts and qua- 

 lities ( and many of .them fuch in my own knowledge, as I can- 

 not queftion their prudence in obferving,or their fincerity in re- 

 lating ) having very frequently made experience of fuch medi- 

 cines, and all affirming after onefafhion to have found the fame 

 erfefb. Addetothefc, the multitude of other like cfre6rs,appear- 

 ing or conceited to appear in other things.In fbmc countries it is 

 a familiar difeafe with kine to have a fuelling in the fbles of their 

 feet: and the ordinary cure is,to cut a turf upon which they have 

 troden with their forefoot, and to hang it upon a hedge; and as 

 that dryeth away, fo will their fore amend. In other parts they 

 obferve, that if milk newly come from the cow, do in the boyl- 

 ing runne over into the fire; and that this do happen often, and 

 near together to the fame cows milk that cow will have her 

 udder fore and inflamed : and the prevention is to caft fait im- 

 mediately into the fire upon the milk. The herb Perjictrta if ic 

 be well rubbed upon warts, and then be laid in fbmc fit place to 

 putrifie, cauleth the warts to wear away as it rotteth : fome fay 

 the like of frefh beef. Many examples alfo there are of hurting 

 living creatures by the like means; which I let not down for 

 fear of doing more harm by the evil inclination of- fbmc perfons 

 into whofc hands they may fall; then profit by their knowing 

 them, unto whom I intend this work. 



But to make thefe operations of nature not incredible ; let us 

 remember how we have determined that every body whatfoe- 

 ver doth yield fome fleam, or vent a kind of vapour from it 

 fclf; and confider, how they muft needs do /b moft of all, that 

 are hot and moift,as bloud and milk are, and as all wounds and 

 fores generally are.We fee that the foot of a hare or deer leaveth 

 fuch an impreflion where the beaft hath P gcan di- 



cern it a long time after : and a fox bi t to f Iron 5 i 



vapour, that the hunters themfelvcs can -ft. 



