174	PRECIOUS STONES.
	Again, to quote from The Magik of Kiram, King of Persia, (London, 1685), " Jaspis,"—Jasper, —is a known Stone. On a Jasper do you engrave a kite tearing a serpent; and under the stone put a stone taken out of the head of a kite, and enclose it; give it to wear in the Breste; for, it will draw away all harm of the stomach, and will create an appetite, to eat, and good digestion. For it has also other virtues ; let it be worn only in the Breast." " The Jasper—Jaholum (Pharma­copoeia Londinensis, 1696), is to be used as an Amulet against phantasms, and witchcraft; worn on the breast it helps the epilepsie, pain of the stomach, and colick. It is of the nature of the Bloodstone; for, it stops bleeding at the nose, and other fluxes of blood." " Being a very precious commodity," pronounced M. Pomet (1712), "it is very liable to be counterfeited in glass. Chuse such as are of a fine deep green, smooth, and shining, full of red spots, as if they were little drops of blood ; and which can take no impression from the point of a needle drawn upon it, which is a sign that it is truly Jasper." " Ground fine upon porphyry the powder is astringent, proper to stop blood, and the scour of the guts."