found in _New Spain_ (having told us, that the _Indians_ do most confidently believe, that if the flesh of any bleeding part be touched with this Stone, the bleeding will thereby be stanched) adds this memorable observation of his own: _Vidimus nonnullos hæmorrhoidum fluxu afflictos remedium sensisse, annulos ex hoc lapide confectos in digito continue gestando; nec non & menstruum fluxum sisti_. And to these for brevity sake, we shall only mention the virtues of the Jasper, which is blood-red throughout the whole body of the Stone, which _Boetius de Boot_ of his own experience doth avouch in several trials to have stopped Fluxes of Blood, only by bare appension: As also the child of a famous Chymical writer, who had his child (supposed to be bewitched) cured by hanging a piece of that Noble Mineral by _Paracelsus_ called _electrum minerale immaturum_, of which _Helmont_ tells us this: _Imprimis electrum minerale immaturum Paracelsi, collo appensum, liberat, quos spiritus immundus persequitur, quod ipse vidi. Illius potum verò plures à veneficiis solvisse, memini. Nemo autem, qui appenso illo simplici, non præcaverit, ne injecta intromittantur: vel ab importunis ligationibus confestim non solvatur._” All which do manifest the great and wonderful virtues, that God hath endowed Stones, Minerals, Plants and Roots withal, that the Devil need not be brought in to be an adjutant or operator in their effects. [Sidenote: _Argum. 4._] [Sidenote: _Ut supra._ 209.] [Sidenote: Helm. _de Febr._ _c._ 2.] [Sidenote: Paracels. _in Archidox. mag._ _l._ 6 _p._ 714.]