On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

because they are not derived from natural signs and marks destined by nature to signify something, so that it is not permitted to have said why and whence they have their credited powers. And examples of such old wives' deliriums occur almost daily everywhere in the world, which I gladly pass over in silence, as they are to be excluded from our institute as vain and superstitious, and outside the bounds of prodigious nature. But in the weapon salve a salve applied to the weapon that caused the wound rather than the wound itself, it will be known that the action comes to light without any superstition, trickery, or imposture, both from the mode of operating itself, if one makes use of it, and also from those things which will be brought forward by me. No trifles will be heard here, no enigmas, no fabrications, nothing fabulous, nothing insipid, but the Great Works original: "Magnalia" of most august nature...