On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

surpassing almost all belief, which are not to be hidden or kept silent for the very reason that they will incite us to praise and venerate the supreme power and wisdom of God. Therefore, we shall descend into the innermost estates of nature, and we shall seek out and bring forth a cause other than the pretext of superstition. The inquiry into this cause, which is not without difficulty and is unknown to most, is to be sought from the following principles.

That there is a certain property of consortium or dissension innate among all and every single thing, by which they are mutually altered and affected without visible contact, experience is witness; and he who denies it:

He demands that the Sun be shown to him. A common Latin proverb implying that one who denies the obvious is asking for the impossible.

Of these qualities and powers...