and arched eye-brows, sitting upon a plough, and between two bulls, why then you are a happy man, and whether you go to war, or seek for hidden treasures, or turn farmer, good luck will go with you. If you should happen to meet with one of these stones it may be some satisfaction to know to whom you are obliged for it. That most ancient Doctor Chael, who was one of the sons of the children of Israel, made it during the forty years which he and his brethren wandered in the wilderness. . . He made also a great many others, equally curious, and of no less virtue, of all which an account is given in his own works,. . so at least Rod. Gocl. affirms in his trealise De Magneticâ Vulnerum curatione, citra ullam superstitionem, dolorem, & remedii etiam applicationem. 1613. P. 18.
The vermicular philosopher Christianus Franciscus Paullinus, has an exampie of the conjunction if which is not less curious. He says that a Sicilian physician who commented upon Galen
