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ora (Hat, and lay it to rut rife, and fo fee whether it will refer or keebe l 
from Healing, the part which remainerh. ' * j 
It is receiued,that it helpethto Continue Loue, ifonewearc a R hgysx \ 
a Bracelet, of the Haire of the Party B cloned. But that maybe by tfee£je- j 
citing Of the Imagination'. And perhaps a Gloue, or other like Fauourynay j 
as well doe it. 
The Sympathie of Indiuidualls, that ha lie beene Entire , or haue Tou¬ 
ched, is of all others the moft Incredible : Yet according vnto our faith- 
fulIManner o£ea lamination ofNature,we will make fome little menrion 
of it. The Taking away of Warts, by Rubbing them with fomewhat that) 
afterwards is put to wafte,and confume,is a Common Experiment: And* 
I doe apprehend it the rather, becaufe of mine owne Experience. I had 
from my childhood, a. wart vpon one of my Fingers ; Alter wards when 
I was about Sixteene Yeares old, being then at Paris , there grew vpon 
both my Hands a Number of warts , ( at the leaft an hundredjin a Mo- 
neths Space. The Englijh Embajpidours Ladie, who was a' woman farre 
from Superftition, told me, one day; Shee would helpe mee away with 
my warts : Whereupon fliee got a Peece of Lard, with the Skin on- and 
rubbed the warts all ouer, with the Fat side 5 And amongft the reft that 
Wart, which! had had from my childhood • Then fhee nailed the Peece 
of Lard, with the Fat towards the Sunne, vpon a Poajl of her Chamber 
window^whichwastothesouth. The Succefle was, that within fine 
weekesfpace, all the warts went quite away : And that wart, which Ij 
had fo long endured, for Company.Butat the reft I did little maruellj 
beeaufe they came in a Short time, and might goe away in a Short, 
f Time againe: But the Going away of that, which hadftayed fo long 
) doth yet fticke with me.They fay thelike is done,by the Rubbing ofwnrts 
with a Greene Elder Sticke, and then Burying theStieke to Rot in Mucke . 
It would be tryed, with Comes,a nd Wens,and fuch other Excrefences.I 
would haue it alfo tried, with fomc Parts of Lining Creatures, that are 
neareft the Nature of Excrefcences- As the Combs of Cocks, the Spurresl 
of Cocks,theHomes of BeaJls,Scc. And I would haue it tried both waiesJ 
Both by Rubbing thofe Parts with Lard or Elder,as before-And by Put¬ 
ting ojffome Peece of thofe Parts, and laying it to Confumc • To fee whe¬ 
ther it will Worke any Effed, towards the Confumpthn of that Part 
which was once loyned with it. 
It is conftantly Receiued, and Auouched, that the Anointing of the 
weapon, that maketh the wound , will heale the wound it felfe Jn this Ex¬ 
periment,vpon the Relation of Men of Credit, ( though my felfe, as yet, j 
are not fully inclined tobeleeue it,)you fhall note the Points following. 
Firft, the Ointment, wherewith this is done, is made of Diuers/ngredi- 
ents-, whereof the Strangeft and Hardeft to come by,are the MoJJe vpon' 
the Skull of a dead Man^nburied ; And the Fats of a Boare, and a Beare, 
killed in the^d of Generation klhefe two laft I could ealily fufped to be 
preferibed as a Starting Hole • That if the Experiment proued not, it 
mought be pretended, that the Beajls were not killed in the due Time ; 
For 
