Magia Naturalis, oder Hauß-, Kunst- und Wunder-Buch

those warlike times with Antony Likely referring to Mark Antony and the Roman civil wars, were ...?
caused / that he could not experimentally verify everything or in practice? German: "in der Th[at]"
investigate it himself / but rather recorded the nature of this or that herb
and other natural things only from hearsay /
and as we maintain / probably did not believe it all himself.

For what an excellent remedy this would be / if it
were true / what he reports of the herb Vitex or Agnus castus (Chaste-
Lamb A shrub historically believed to suppress sexual desire) that / if one held this herb in their bare hand / they
could ride a horse without a saddle / even for 100 miles /
without ever suffering a saddle-sore German: "einen Wolff ritte," a colloquial term for skin chafing from riding.

It would also be something strange / and pregnant young
women or rather frivolous harlots / would no longer esteem the potions of Sabina or
Savin (Savin-Juniper) tree / if the deed corresponded and
agreed with the words / where he writes of the female
Fern-Herb / that / as soon as a pregnant
woman merely steps upon it / from that very hour the fruit
would leave her / and she would thus be forced to miscarry.

Indeed, we certainly believe / that women would make an idol out of
him / if that were certain / which he mentions regarding the herbs
Phyllon and Mercurialis, (Mercury-Herb A common weed used in folk medicine) that name-
ly a woman / if she drank the juice of the male species of the aforementioned
herbs / or only applied the leaves to her natural parts /
she would infallibly become pregnant with a son.

What Pliny the Elder original: "Plinius Secundus" of Verona, a man of untiring
diligence / as is evident from his writings / has done in such natural
sciences / is sufficiently known to the learned and to Physicists Natural scientists;
However, we caution original: "caviren" and make the certain promise / that
today there is almost not a single superstitious error in natural
matters to be found among the learned and unlearned / that is not also
found in Pliny; yet we also maintain / that in
such matters more blame is to be assigned to the reader / for being
so gullible / than to Pliny himself.