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phthyficke :and tempered with honey, ithealeth up old ulcers and skinneth themclease:and G 
yet this properticit hath, to eat away any excrefcence of prowd ficfh, Thefameisgoodforthe 
bitings of wildand venomous beafts.Such morimals ot fores as fcorne ordinarie cures is : 
of {uppuration,icdrieth, Finally,there is an excellent cataplafme madewithitandbeane-flower 
puctogether,for the gout, L evaeshaci hanenes il thas inner aun 
a Cua’, -xvath detipbateedole 
& Of Yvorie mineral, digged ont of the ground. Of stones that are of abonie 
nature and fuch,as their veines reprefent Date treeswithins 0. 
and of other kinds of flone, 
“T° Heophraftus and Mutianus abovenamed, are yerely perfuaded , That theré befome ftones 
which engender others.And as for Theophraj/tushe affirmeth; [hat thereis a minerall Yvo- 
rie found within the ground,as well blacke as white :alfo,that there be bones growing with» 
in the earth,yeajand ftones of a bonie fubftance, AboutMunda, a cittiein Spaine,whereCefar 
D.Gatour defeated Pomp-y,there are found ftones refembling Date trees, breake them as often as 
you will. There bealfo certaine blacke ftones,whercof theres as gieat accountmade as of mat- 
bles: like as the ftone alfo of the cape Tznara.Andfuch blacke ftones(/arro faith) be more firm 
and hard which come outof Africa,than thofe of iralie: and contrariwife, that there bee white 
{tones harder to be wrought by the Turner,than the marble of Paros: The faid Varro affirmeth, 
That the flint of Luna may be flit with the {aw ; whereas that of Tufculum will cracke and flie in 
peeces inthe fire: alfo, [bac the darke and duskith Sabine tone, it it be {princkled with oile, will 
burne of alight fire:moreover, That about Volfinijthere have been found quernes or hand. mille 
ftones framed readie for worke,yea,and fome we have fecne to turn about and grind of their own 
accord; but {uch have been taken for prodigies. And fince | am fallen upen the mention of fuch 
mill. ftones, there is not a counuey in the would affourdeth beuer of thatkind than Italie dooth: 
neither doe fiich grow in the rocke,and are hewed forth but be entire ftones of themfelves aparts » 
and yet in fome provinces there are none of them tu be had atall, And in this kind there be of a 
more free and fufter grit, which being {inoothed and pollifhed with aflicke ftone, may feem a far 
off.as if they were Serpentine marble : and verely, there is nota ftone willendureberter, or lie 
longer in building. For thus you muft thinke,thatall ftones bee not of one and the fameniature B 
to abide raine and weather; heat of Summer and cold in Winter alike ; for fome be more dura- 
ble than others, like as we find in {undniekinds of timber.Finally there be {tones alfo, which may 
not away with che raies of the Moon: which in continuance of ume will gather ruft,yea,and with 
oyle will chaunge their white colour. 
} Cuan X1X. 
e& Of Curalinm or Pyrites,.the Marcafin : and the medicinablevertues thereof.Ojf the 
flone Offracitesjend the Amsani:toge:her with the properties ferving in Phya 
ficke : alfo, of the flone Meittives,and she vertucs thereof, Likewife 
of the Geat,and the effects that i: worketh in Phyficke, 
Of Spunges Laftly,of thePhryzian flone, 
and the mature of 2. 
He mill-ftone C uralium,fome call Pyrites,becaufe it feemeth to have great floré of fire in 
it: howbeit,there is another fire ftone going under the name of Pyrites or Marcafin,which 
refembleth braffe ore in the mine.And they fay,thar of it there is found great plenty inthe 
Ifle Cypros,and in thofe mines which are about Acarnania, where a man fhall meet with one itt 
colour like filver,and another like gold, Thefe ftiones be calcined many and fundrie waies, Some 
boile them two or three times in honey {6 long, untill all che liquor bee confumed: others burne 
them fir{t in fire of coales,then they calcine them with hony, and afterwards wath thems, after the 
manner of braffe, Thefe ftones thus prepared,are goodin Phyfick, namely to heat,to diie,to dif- 
cufle,to fubtiliat grofle humors, andto mollifie all fehirrhofities or hardtwmors, The fame are 
much ufed alfocrude and uncalcined(being reduced mto pouder) for the kings evill,arid fellons. 
Morcover,in the ranke of thefe Marcafines,fome raunge certaine ftones, which wee'¢all 88 
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