The Secrets of Albertus Magnus on the Nature of Women and the Virtues of Herbs

A botanical woodcut illustration depicts a plant with large, ribbed, lanceolate leaves at the base and a central stalk rising into a dense spike of small flowers or seeds, with a thick, fibrous root system.

Take this herb with the heart of a frog and its mutter womb/matrix, place it where you will, and after a short while, the dogs of the village will gather there.

And if you have the same under your big toe, all dogs become mute.

And if you hang the aforementioned herb on the neck of a dog, in such a way that he cannot touch it with his mouth, then...