4. And it is also manifest that Metals may be so artificially in fit Constellations commixed together, that their effects will be rare and stupendious, as the aforesaid honourable person doth transcribe and relate to us in these words: “What _Monardes_, (he saith) mentions of the virtue of the _Lapis Sanguinaris_ to cure Hemorrhoidal Fluxes, puts me in mind of a yet much stranger thing, which _Helmont_ affirms, namely, That he could make a metal, of which if a Ring were worn, the pain of the Hæmorrhoids would be taken away, in the little time requisite to recite the Lords Prayer; and within twenty four hours the Hæmorrhoids themselves, as well internal as external, how protuberant soever, would vanish, and the restagnant blood would (as he speaks) be received again into favour, and be restored to a good condition. The same Ring he also commends in the suffocation and irregular motion of the Womb, and divers other Diseases: But if _Paracelsus_ be in any case to be credited in an unlikely matter, we may think by his very solemn protestations that he speaks upon his own experience, that he had a Ring made of a metalline substance, by him called _electrum_, (which by his description seems to be a mixture of all the metals joined together under certain constellations) which was of far greater virtue than this of _Helmont_, For, _hoc loco_ (says he) _non possum non indicare admirandas quasdam vires virtutesq; electri nostri, quas fieri his nostris oculis vidimus, adeoq; cum bona veritatis conscientiâ præferre attestariq; possumus. Vidimus enim hujus generis annulos, quos qui induit, hunc nec spasmus convulsit, nec Paralysis corripuit, nec dolor ullus torsit, similiter nec Apoplexia, nec Epilepsia invasit. Et si annulus hujusmodi Epileptici digito annulari, etiam in Paroxysmo sævissimo, insertus fuit, remittente illicò Paroxysmo, æger à lapsu illico resurrexit_, &c.” And though Mr. _Boyle_ a person of a perspicuous judgment, and of a great understanding, doth seem to question his authority with a kind of dubitation, being in probability staggered by the groundless censures of his greatest adversaries; yet we must affirm that it is very hard that his veracity and experience (which was as great as any Mans) should be undervalued, by reason of the ignorance and idleness of those that judge him: who were never able in regard of their ignorance to understand the meaning of his mystical and dark way of writing, nor because of their supine negligence had ever made trial of those things he treateth of, with that curious diligence and care that is requisite to accomplish such occult effects withal; not considering that, _Dii sua bona laboribus vendunt_. But notwithstanding this, and the monstrous lies and horrid calumnies of that pitiful Rapsodist _Athanasius Kircherus_, we shall add one testimony more from the same Author, which in English runs thus: “Also (he saith) I cannot here pass over one great wonder, which I saw performed in _Spain_ of a