Treatise on... The header is partial; the full title likely refers to the "Magnetic Cure of Wounds."

[a person] wounded several miles away while absent
is restored to health, by having the weapon or in-
strument with which the wound was inflicted
merely anointed This refers to the "weapon salve," an ointment applied to the weapon rather than the injury.; whether the cause of this
lies in nature, or whether it is truly the work
of impostors or even witchcraft? But
at the beginning, I certainly cannot
fail to remember here that, when I was
in Sweden original: "Suecia" with a certain I. L.,
a Noble Lord, two
of his servants, contending with one
another over their cups, moved from words
to blows, and one of them wounded the other’s
right thigh quite deeply with a stabbing knife-thrust.
And since a Surgeon|In this era, surgeons were manual practitioners distinct from university-educated physicians. could not be found
immediately—for the manor was quite far from the ci-
ty—behold, the wife of that Noble
Lord, a most noble woman
and not ignorant of the nature of things|The study of natural philosophy and the hidden properties of plants and minerals.,
cured it without any pain,
having applied no remedy to the wound itself,
but only to the knife by which the wound