On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

so that those things which were subject to mutations would be generated and corrupted in a continuous series and by law. No one will deny this, unless he is to contradict equally sacred and profane records, and destroy the order of nature, so that it must be established that that sympathy and antipathy visible in animals, minerals, and vegetables depends upon nothing else than the celestial influx and impression of the stars, according to the constitution of each species, innate either to all individuals, or to some only of the same species according to the singular degree of their complexion. Whence, although a sapphire does not injure the eyes, one was nevertheless found that, upon the first application, blunted the sharpness of sight. And in Austria, twins, when objects are placed at the doorway of the body, reveal wild