176                           PRECIOUS STONES.
	memorable example of a maid whom he cured at Prague, after she had been for "six years sick of a hemorrhage so vehement that there scarce ever passed a week in which she did not several times bleed; neither could she be relieved by any remedies, though she had long us'd them, till she was quite tired therewith. Wherefore our Author, setting them all aside, lent her a Jasper, of whose virtues in such cases he had made good trial, to hang about her neck : which when she did, the flux of blood presently ceased; and she afterwards for curiosity's sake, oftentimes laying aside the stone, and as often as she needed it applying it again, observed that whereas the flux of blood did not presently return upon the absence of the Jasper, but after divers weeks, yet upon the hanging it on again it would presently be stopped ; so that she could not ascribe the relief to any thing but the stone ; by which our Author tells us that at length she was quite cured. And speaking of the praises given by others to Green Jasper, speckled with Red, he concludes, " Sed ego, quod multoties expertus sum refero." " One passage there is," says again Robert Boyle, in his Experimental Philosophie, " which doth so notably confirm what we have deliver'd touching the greatest