Germans, _Johannes Pharamundus Rhumelius_, and _Israel Hebueras_ that learned Mathematician, in a Treatise which he calleth, _Mysterium Sigillorum herbarum & lapidum_, which do compleatly verifie the certain efficacy and virtue of Planetary Seals, Images or Figures. [Sidenote: _Argum. 3._] [Sidenote: Usefulness of Exper. Phil. _c._ 10. _p._ 207.] [Sidenote: _De Lapid. & Gemm._ _l._ 2. _c._ 11.] [Sidenote: _Hist. 6._] [Sidenote: _De Gemm. & Lapid._ _l._ 1. _c._ 23.] [Sidenote: _De Lapid. & Gemm._ _l._ 2. _p._ 102.] [Sidenote: _Mod. Intrand._ _p._ 604.] 3. These things are confirmed by the effects of appensions of many natural things which produce strange and wonderful effects, some of which we shall give in the words of that honourable person Mr. _Boyl_, who saith: “That great cures may be done by bare outward applications, you will scarce deny if you disbelieve not the relations which are made us by learned men concerning the efficacy of the _Lapis Nephriticus_, only bound upon the Pulses of the wrists (chiefly that of the left hand) against that stubborn and Anomalous disease the Stone. And that which gives the more credit to these relations is; That not only the judicious _Anselmus Boetius de Boot_ seems to prize it, but the famous _Monardes_ professeth himself, not to write by hear-say of the great virtues of this _Indian Stone_, but to have made tryal of it himself upon persons of very high quality: And that which is related by _Monardes_ is much less strange than those almost incredible things which are with many circumstances delivered of that Stone, by the learned Chymist _Vutzerus_. And although it must be acknowledged that some Stones that go under that name have been ineffectually applied in Nephritick Distempers. Yet the accurate _Johannes de Laet_ himself furnisheth us with an answer to that objection, informing us that many of those Nephritick Stones (which differ much in colour, though the best are wont to be greenish) although not at all counterfeited or sophisticated are of little or no virtue. But that yet there are some others of them which can scarce be distinguished from the former, but by tryal upon Nephriticks, which are of wonderful efficacy, as he himself hath more than once tryed in his own Wife. _Garcias ab orta_ mentions a Stone found in _Balagat_, called _Alaqueca_; of which he tells us, that though it be cheap: _Hujus tamen virtus_ (to use his own words) _reliquarum Gemmarum facultates exuperat, quippe qui sanguinem undequaq; fluentem illico sistat_. _Monardes_ (_cap. 35._) relates the great virtues of a Stone against Hysterical suffocations, and concludes; _Cum uteri suffocationem imminentem præsentiunt, adhibito lapide subitò levantur, & si eum perpetuò gestant (Hysterici) nunquam simili morbo corripiuntur: exempla hujusmodi faciunt ut his rebus fidem adhibeam_. The same Author in the next Chapter, treating of the _Lapis Sanguinaris_ or Blood-stone,