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virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11816	Naturall philosophy: or A description of the vvorld, and of the severall creatures therein contained viz. of angels, of mankinde, of the heavens, the starres, the planets, the foure elements, with their order, nature and government: as also of minerals, mettals, plants, and precious stones; with their colours, formes, and vertues. By Daniel Widdovves.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English. Abridgments	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583. Rerum physicarum juxta leges logicas methodica explicatio. aut; Woodhouse, John.	1631 (1631)	STC 22112; ESTC S117038	44,731	82

greene the ayre neare about it the stone of Brytaine The nature of it is the best It preserveth the wearer from the falling sickenesse eyght graines of his shaving drunke expelleth poyson c. as some affirme The Sardonyx is a cleare gem representing in coullours Sardonyx the nayle of a mans hand it preserveth chastnes The nature of it and healeth vlcers about the nayles The Selenites is a transparent gem like glasse it Selenites seemeth to increase and decrease with the moone The nature of it whose shape in the night it beareth and is called therefore the Moone-stone c. It is of a white blacke and yellow coullour His scrapings heale the falling sicknesse Bright shining Gems doe follow The Carbuncle is a gem shining in the light like Carbuncle fire it is the noblest and hath most vertues of any precious The nature of it stone The Calcedonian is of a purple coullour shining Calcedonian The nature of it like a starre it expels sadnes and feare by purging and chearing the spirits It hindreth all visions The Astarites is a Crystalline stone having in the Astarites The nature of it middest like a full moone Bright stones not shining do follow or the lesse shining Rubie The Rubie is a red gemme shining in darke like a sparke of fire it cleareth the sight it expelleth sad The nature of it and fearefull dreames The Topaz is of the colour of gold casting Topaz beames in the Sunne being layd to a wound it stancheth The nature of it blood or cast into hot water keepeth the hand from scalding Hiachinth The Hiacinth is of waterish colour it is exceeding hard and cloudie in the darke but pure and cleare by The nature of it day It is colde moderating the spirits of the heart and of the other parts and causing mirth which being worne obtaineth favour Precious stones of lesse shining be Corrall Asbestos Magnes and Galacte Corall is a stone growing in the Sea like a slimie Corrall shrub which by the ayre presently is made hard It is The nature of it taken up full of mosse but being unbarked it appeareth cleare in his proper colour The spongie Corrall is white and colde The solid is more stonie and is red and blacke Red and full of branches is the best which worne of one shortly to be sicke waxeth pale His tender substance is affected by the bad vapour which yet is unable in the body to afflict it It is good for sore eyes for the stone and falling sicknesse Asbestos is of an Iron colour being once fiered it Asbestos The nature of it cannot be quenched it is found in Arabia Magnes or Loadstone is of a skie colour or an Iron The Loadstone The nature of it colour It draweth Iron It hath like vertue with the Adamant It purgeth the dropsie belpeth the flux respecteth the North and South pole Galactites is of an Ash colour it seemeth to sweat Galactites The nature of it as it were milke it increaseth milke and helpeth running of the eyes and ulcers Now follow stones of divers colours Achates is a stone of divers colours resembling a Achates The nature of it Lyons skin sometime it is blacke with white veynes and yellow sometime it is as it were sprinkled with bloud it is very variable in colour Eagles lay it in their nests to preserve their young from poyson Turcois is darke of a skie colour and greenish Turcois It helpeth weake eyes and spirits The nature of it Corneolus is like water of washed flesh It helpeth Corneolus against the Pyles in the fundament and to stop fluxes The nature of it In a ring it restraineth anger Chrysoprasus is of a greene colour with golden Chrysoprasus spots It shineth a little in the darke it is rare and deare The nature of it It comforteth the heart helpeth dim sight c. Hematite is of an Iron colour with bloudy veynes Hematite It is cold and dry cooleth hot waters stancheth bloud The nature of it and helpeth against the scorching of the Sunne as Authors write Also the qualities of other stones depend rather upon authoritie than upon proofe Stones be found in Beasts Birds and Fishes Stones found in Beasts be 1. Chelidonius is a small stone in the belly of yong Chelidonius Swallowes It is found in those of the first hatching in The nature of it the new moone if two be found the one is red the other blacke The best is of a sprinkled red The red in a linnen cloath carried under the left arme expelleth madnesse the falling sicknesse and getteth favour say some 2. Alectorius is of a christall or watrish colour Alectorius It is found in the Maw of an olde Capon as big as a beane in one of nine yeere old small in one of five yeere The nature of it olde This stone quencheth thirst being held in the mouth It maketh warlike and couragious 3. The Rubet or Toadstone groweth in the head Toadstone of a Toad It is of a white browne colour sometime The nature of it it hath a skie coloured eye in the middle It is to bee taken before the Toad touch any Water It is a remedie against all poyson If it come neare poyson it changeth colour and sweateth as it were drops In fishes are found stones which are made of the cold hardening their matter 4. The Crabs eye of the female is like an eye Crabs eye it dissolveth bloud congealed and expelleth The nature of it stones 5. The Perch stone found in his head is white and as Perchstone big as Hemp-seed 6. The Carpe stone found in his chap is trianguler Carpestone white without yellow within It helpeth against The nature of it aboundance of choller Thus farre of precious stones These following are of price because of their beautie but not so rare Porphirite is a Marble shining like purple Alabaster Porphirite Alabaster is a marble like in colour to spotted Honny At this day it is cleare and smooth like Plaster The Ophite is a most hard marble of a sad greene Ophite spotted and serpent-like colour Common stones are of unpure slimie earth thicke Common stones and darke some be solid as the Flint Boulder the Whet-stone c. Some be full of pores as the Pumise Gravel-stone and free-stone Salt is a fryable mettall begotten of a waterish and Salt what it is earthy moysture mixt and decocted together It The nature of it bindeth scowreth purgeth disperseth represseth maketh thin and hard It is gotten in pits or waters The sorts of digged salts be Salt Amoniack is found in plates under the hotte Salt Amonaick The nature of it sands of Cyreniae It is hot and dry in the fourth degree and serveth to purge slimie humors That which Apothecaries sell in blacke clods