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one person and caused to appear in another ; love between 

 two persons of the opposite sex may thus be created, and 

 magnetic links be established between persons living at 

 distant places, because there is only one universal prin- 

 ciple of life, and by it all beings are sympathetically 

 connected together." 



The plants used for the transplantation of diseases 

 bear the signatures of the diseases whose names are 

 added. In cases of ulcers and wounds the Mumia may 

 be planted with Polygonum persicaria, Symphytum offici- 

 nal, Botanus europeus, &c. The plant is to be brought 

 for a while in contact with the ulcer, and then to 

 be buried in manure. As it rots, the ulcer heals. In 

 toothache the gums should be rubbed with the root of 

 Senecio vulgaris until they bleed, and the root is then 

 to be replaced into the earth ; or a splinter may be cut 

 out of a blackthorn or willow after the bark has been 

 lifted up. Pick the gums with that splinter until they 

 bleed, and replace the splinter into the tree and tie the 

 cut in the bark up so that it will heal. In menorrhagia 

 uterina the Mumia should be taken from the groins and 

 planted with Polygonum persicaria. In menorrhosa diffi- 

 cilis, Mentha pulegium is used. In phthisis pulmonalis 

 the Mumia may be planted with an orchis in the vicinity 

 of an oak or cherry tree, or the Mumia be planted 

 directly into such trees. The (fresh) urine of a patient 

 should be heated in a new pot over a fire, and an egg 

 boiled in it. When the egg is hard boiled, some holes 

 should be made into the egg^ and the urine boiled down 

 until the pot is dry. The egg is then to be put into an 



" The excrements of the patient may be dried as described above, and 

 pulverised ; they are tied up in a cloth and applied as a poultice, until 

 they are penetrated with sweat from the patient, and the powder is then 

 mixed with earth and inserted into a flower-pot, and a plant bearing the 

 signature of the patient's disease is planted into it. After the plant ha* 

 grown a while it is thrown into ninning water in cases of fevers and in- 

 flammations, but in cases of a humid character or in lymphatic affectioiM 

 it should be hun^ into smoke," 



