A%JcTlrb2ilarm'  \    Egyptian  Secrets  and  Magical  Spirit  68 1 
To  Make  The  Hair  Grow  Wherever  You  Choose.  Take  dog's 
milk  and  paint  the  spot  therewith  wherever  you  wish  to  have  the 
hair  grow.    It  will  surely  grow. 
To  Make  a  Person  Dislike  Gambling.  Speak  to  an  executioner, 
give  me  some  wood  of  a  whip  wherewith  you  have  beaten  criminals 
and  flog  the  gambler  with  this  upon  his  naked  body.  Nevermore 
thereafter  will  he  gamble. 
To  Catch  Fish.  Take  valerian  or  cocculus  indicus  and  make 
small  cakes  therof  with  flour,  throw  these  into  the  deep.  As  soon 
as  a  fish  eats  thereof  it  will  become  intoxicated  and  float  upon  the 
surface. 
When  You  Hear  Something  Said  That  You  May  Not  Forget  It. 
Take  the  heart  of  a  swallow,  boil  it  in  milk,  and  carry  it  on  your 
person  and  you  will  remember  all  you  hear. 
The  selection  of  the  foregoing  list  is  not  designed  to  discredit 
the  accomplishments  of  Albertus  Magnus.  History  records  him  as 
one  of  the  foremost  of  the  medieval  philosophers.  He  was  known 
as  the  Universal  Doctor  in  addition  to  being  an  astronomer,  a  theo- 
logian and  an  alchemist  and  knew  practically  all  that  was  to  be 
known  in  his  time. 
Not  all  of  the  secrets  published  by  Albertus  Magnus  in  this 
volume  are  of  the  same  superstitious  and  somewhat  magical  char- 
acter. Some  of  the  remedies  employed  by  him  have  passed  safely 
through  the  centuries  and  are  valued  pharmaceutical  substances  and 
medicinal  agents  of  the  present  day. 
For  instance,  a  splendid  eye  water  is  recommended  composed 
of  white  vitriol,  native  camphor  and  rose  water.  Constipated  per- 
sons are  told  how  to  open  the  bowels  within  one  hours'  time  by 
taking  a  dose  of  salts  and  senna  such  as  apothecaries  sell.  The 
value  of  astringents  in  stopping  the  flow  of  blood  is  utilized  in  a 
remedy  for  nose  bleeding  which  directs  that  a  little  wadding  be 
dipped  in  good  ink  and  inserted  into  the  nose  or  other  bleeding  in- 
juries. An  ointment  for  burns  is  recommended  containing  rosin, 
tallow,  wagon  grease,  wax  and  turpentine  oil.  A  blister  plaster  is 
found  composed  of  cantharides,  turpentine,  yellow  bees-wax  and 
linseed  oil.  Another  ointment  for  burns  is  directed  to  be  made  by 
mixing  upon  a  coal  fire  two  ounces  of  turpentine,  three  ounces  of 
yellow  bees- wax  and  six  ounces  of  linseed  oil. 
For  a  time  alchemy  was  associated  with  superstition  in  the 
hands  of  magicians  and  practitioners  of  the  black  art.   We  are  told, 
