Medicina magnetica; or, the rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy, laid open in aphorismes, proved in conclusions, and digested into an easy method / ... By C. de Iryngio.

  • Irvine, Christopher, -1693.
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[1656]
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Credit: Medicina magnetica; or, the rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy, laid open in aphorismes, proved in conclusions, and digested into an easy method / ... By C. de Iryngio. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (109) _ his infection , he beginnech to move his head, feer and Mahands ,°and ona fudden fallech a-dancing, till with yniotion and fweat he fall down wearied: Andthus they “proceed at fundry times » till the poifon be evaporated. “(iit the Mufician play falfe, or alcer the Magnetisk tune the Wthifeated by geftures, thew both pains and diflike ; And Nic hath been oblerved , the Spider will danceto his Mag- lietick tune. | The fifth, The Magnetifne of sbe Hey | Lh Magnes #8 /elf. ONT Bis Artis called Magnetick ftom the Magnes, ( the “Load ftone) {0 called from the /Peep-berd, that found ‘Me out firft in the Mount Ida, by fecing his fheep-hook “) ptmed with iron, ftick faft to the Magnetick ftoues, This “IN s'a Mineral ftone, indued by; Nature with determinate MM Dodnts of is vertues » whereby it both draws Iron to it 5 eh ta difpofeth the Gtuation of the Ivon , according to its Wipwn fituation, that is, maketh the Gcuation thereof Po~ Mars Its two great Maguetifms then, are, [firft to draly Irox ‘ivac a diftance from it, co it elf: And fecondly, to direct the fituation of this lronto be Pelar : So » It Operateth ‘\Wbvichoue an immediate PLbyfical sontattion, by a cextain mis ae vertue therein 3 which cannot be found out, nor iperformed by Elementary qualitics. And for this reaf diy W5 we call chofe Motions in Nature, Magnetics which bya hidden confent, move /oeaily one towards the other, or “temove from the other. And after this manner of {peak~ whiing, all Sywpatbies and Antipatbies are called Mag «)h potsous. This is wonderfull in the Load ftone,cthac it d. lia Vy¥< wwi*teh hos Iron as well as cold, and doth not onely commis lnicate his vertue to Iron to draw other Irons as you may aiee a Needle taken up by the Magnes, tocake up an orher gt its point » and {0 to proceed in others, till it renteleae hain: But alfohath a Spiritual forces which never fai)» h; which isinevery part thereof: for, it being breke, ‘tach part hath the fame vertue with the whcle Yh enetratech all chingsnot hurting any; for;uor an =e {Ali SORT F