On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

to each one who applies all the nerves of his genius to cultivating the more refined literature, it is not my place to say now. Indeed, I prefer to dissemble that rather than to write it, lest I seem to wish to please by flattering. Therefore, that some public monument might exist of that gratitude which the Muses and Minerva Roman goddess of wisdom owe to you, and so that you might be more and more excited to aid and promote the literary cause, I have thought it not alien to honesty and philosophical modesty to dedicate and consecrate to your illustrious name this treatise, which contains many things hidden in the majesty of nature and removed from the senses, together with the annexed oration.