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DIGBY, SIR KENELM. A Late Discours made in a Solemne Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France . . . Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy. With Instructions how to make the said Powder. [10], 152, [6] pages, including final ad leaf. 12mo, black morocco by sangorski & sutcliffe. London: J. G. for Octavian Puleyn, Jun., 1664
Fourth edition of Digby's 1558 account of the so-called powder of sympathy, "which cured wounds by being rubbed on the weapon that inflicted them . . . It worked by a combination of occult and natural powers, that is, by attraction and by the small material particles given off by all objects"--DSB IV, 95. Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes I/6, 22; Thorndike VII, 503-05; Wing D1438.
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