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~ ‘any part within the skin of a beaft facrificed, they will caufe them to goe out their fulltime; but 
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and being taken in wine, it is foveraigne againft the {ting of ferpents. In all thefe cafes the bloud- 
{tone Schiftos is effeQuall, but weaker onely it isin operation :and yet among thefe fanguine or 
bloud ftones, thofe aretaken forthe beft and moft helpefull which in colour refemble faffton 
and fuch have a peculiar refplendent luftre by themfelves, This ftone beeing applied to weeping 
and waterie eyes with womans milke, doth them much good ; and is foveraigne alfo to reftraine 
andkeepe them in,if they bee readie to tart out of the head: AndthisI write according tothe 
mind and opinion of our moderne authors. But Sotacvs averie auncient writer hath delivered 
unto us five kinds of bloud-ftone, befides that Hoematites which is called Magnes or the load- 
ftone : among which, he giveth the chiefe prize and principal] praife to the Zthiopian, for that 
it is fo foveraigne for to bee put into medecins appropriat to the eyes; as alfo into thofe which 
for their excellent operation be called Panchrefta.A fecond fort he faith, is called Androdamas, 
blacke of colour, and for weight and hardneffe furpaffing allthereft, whereupon it tooke that 
names; and of thiskind there are found great ftore in Barbarie: hee affirmeth moreover, that it 
hatha qualitie to draw unto it filver,brafle,and iron: andfor to make proofe whether it bee good 
or no, itoughtto bee ground upon the touch called Bafanites; for it will yeeld a bloudie juice, 
the which isa right foveraigne remedie for the difeafes of the liver. For the third kind of bloud- 
ftone, he maketh the Arabicke, for that it is brought out of Arabia: as hard it is as the other, for 
hardly will chere any juice come from it though it be put to the grindftone; and the fame other- 
while is of a faffron colour. The fourth fort he faith, is called Elatires, fo long as it is crude; but 
being once calcined, it taketh the name Miltites; a verie excellent thing for burns and {caldings, 
and in all cafes much better than any ruddle whatfoever.In the fifth placehe reckneth thatwhich | 
is called Schiftos:this is held to be fingular in repreifing the flux of bloud from the hemorrhoid 
veins. But generally of all thefe bloudttones, he concludeth thus, That if they be pulverifed and 
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taken in oile upon a fafting ftomacke,to the weight of three dtams, they be right foveraigne for _ 
all fluxes of bloud. The fame authour writeth of another Schiftos that is none of thefe Hoema- 
tites,and this they call Anthracites: and by his faying,found there is of itin Affticke, blacke in 
colour, which if it be ground upon a whetitone or grindftone with water, yeeldeth toward the 
nether end or fide thereof that lay next untothe ground, a certain blacke juice ;but on the other 
fide, of a faffron colour :and hee is of opinion, that the {aid juice is fingular for thofe medecines 
which be appropriatto the eyes. 
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e& Of the foure kinds of the FEgle-flone, Aétites : of the flone Callinaus : of the 
flones Samus and Arabus: and of Pumifh flones: 
He ZEgle-ftones called Aétites, be much renowmed in regard of the verie name that they 
carrie: found they are in Aégles nefts, as I have fhewed alreadie in my tenth booke : and it 
is faid, that they be two togither, towit,the male andthe female: alfo that without them 
the gles cannot hatch, which isthereafon that they never have above two yong Aigles at one: 
airie. Of this gle-ftone there be fourekinds :for one fort thereof is bred in Aftricke; the fame 
is verie {mall and foft, containing within it as it were in a wombe, acertaine clay which is fweet, 
pleafant,and white: the ftone it felfeis brittleand apttocrumble, and this isthoughrto bee the 
female fex. The fecond, which istaken for the male, groweth in Arabia shard this isand refem- 
bleth a gall-nut in fafhion, and the fame otherwhile is of a reddifh colour,having enclofed with- 
in the bellie thereofapother hard ftone, The third is found in the Ifle Cypros ; for colour much 
like to thote thatbe engendred in Affricke, otherwife bigger and made more flat and broad than 
they: the re{tbe ufually round in manner of a globe: this hath alfo within the wombe a {weet | 
fand and other {mall gravelly ftones, but it felte is fo tender that a man may crumble it between 
his fingers. The fourth kind isnamed Taphinfius, for that it isbred neare unto the cape Leucas 
in aplace neare unto Taphinfa, onthe righthand as menfaile from the faid Taphiufa toward 
Leucas: there is found of it in rivers, but the fame is white and round: within the belly of it there 
is another ftone called Callimus, and there isnot a thing moretenderthan it. Butto come unto 
the properties of thefe Zigle-ftones : They are commended as fingular for women with child, or 
fout-footed beafts that are with young; for if they be hung about their necks,or otherwife tied to 
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