Doctor _Pauli_ tells you, he has left the Use of it many Years, and had given to better Purpose, the more powerful and certain Cordials taken from Plants; and supports his Opinion with the Suffrages of _Casper_, _Bauhinus_, _Casp. Hofmanus_, _Rectius_, _Fabricius_; The learned and judicious _Deemoebreck_ in his Treatise of the Pestilence, declares he had no Regard to it, that he gave it often _absque ullo fructu, movebat aliquo modo exiguum duntaxit sudorem_. It did, says he, no good to those who used it; scarcely mov'd so much as a little Sweat: It was of the best Parcel chosen of any coming from the _Indies_, or ever was sent to _Europe_, but gave them not the least Relief, though they had promised themselves the greatest from it: To confirm his Opinion that it is worth nothing, he produces the Opinion of _Hercules Saxonias_, and _Crato_ Physician to three Emperors, and refers you to many others. Doctor _Patin_, late Royal Professor of Physick in _Paris_, decides the Pretences to its being of any kind of Use: He says it neither stirs the Blood, nor puts the Spirits in any Motion; besides, some of the above-nam'd Physicians, he appeals to the Judgment of many others, and his own Experience of more than thirty Years. The lately corrected _Leewarden_'s Dispensatory leaves it out of their _Gascoins Powder_, condemning it as a useless and frivolous Ingredient. _Bontius_ tells you, that if we must give Stones, we ought to put a greater Value upon those cut out of the Bladders of Man, a more noble Creature, fed with Meat of the highest Nourishment, and his Spirits warm'd with Wine, than that of a Goat starving upon the Mountains. He assures you that he has given the _Bezoar_, from the Gall or the Bladder, with better Effect than he ever observ'd of those from the _Indies_. The Physicians who first began the Amusement and Cheat, made themselves ridiculous by dreading to give for a Dose more than five, or six, or seven Grains: You may take forty or fifty with no other Advantage or Alteration than your Imagination shall raise; and with the same Effect, ten times as much more. It may, with modern Observers, pass for a Sweater, and a Cordial, when they have given it with good Cordials, and Sweaters, but the most visible Operation it has, is seen when the Bill is paid. Our Physicians in their private Conversations, talk of it as a thing altogether worthless; but because the People are willing to be cheated with _Bezoar_ and _Pearl_, they dare not entertain a Thought of undeceiving them, fearing the Consequence to their own Disadvantage: And I pray with what Art can the high Rate of Medicines be maintain'd, if the World could not be amused with the Imagination of being kept alive in all the Distempers, by the Force of these two?