Sympathetic Theater

with Sennert Daniel Sennert, 17th-century physician and Naudé Gabriel Naudé, librarian and scholar. Yet P. Servius, a Roman chief physician, remained contrary in a singular dissertation on the Weapon Salve. Thus, in the thirty-ninth year of this century, the booklet of Ericius Mohy on the Sympathetic Powder appeared, by which wounds are healed without the application of medicine to the affected part and without superstition. Indeed, in the forty-sixth year in Italy—that propagator of letters and especially the most faithful nurse of the pupils of Hygeia goddess of health—N. Papinius Nicolas Papin, not the least ornament of his country, brought forth a fruit of his not-unfortunate genius on this arduous matter and did not begrudge our shores its exhibition. Men of refined judgment believed that he should not be left in the dust, but raised to the stars with praise. I mean the Treatise on the Sympathetic Powder which that illustrious man published not long ago for the learned world. The product was not only not despised, but was so loved that many burned with desire for it; yet, due to the scarcity of copies, their needs could not be satisfied. A twin to this was produced in France last year by the Illustrious and Incomparable Man, Sir Kenelm Digby, Count and Chancellor to the most recent King of Britain until his death, whom the virtue and eloquence of Cromwell freed from the axe. How elegant and well-groomed this fruit is, having been brought into the light, I leave to the judgment of those who are most experienced in this art, for whom my own judgment is quite sufficient.