On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

Which has until now tortured the minds of many, and even now wearies them, I shall explain for the present, drawn from the innermost depths and recesses of nature, as much as can be done by me, having the persuasion that from it, the admirable, and almost incredible, power and majesty of nature will appear more than sufficiently. While I navigate such a vast sea, you, my listeners, lift me up with the breeze of your clemency and benevolence and kindly accompany me. Judge more by the intent of the speaker than by the matter and form itself, and if by chance I have wandered from the mark, attribute it lovingly to the unpropitious time, during which I have been away from such exercises.

The question, however, which I have undertaken to treat, will consist primarily of this: whether the weapon salve, by which even one, two, or