drinking
impure water. Small convenient plates of this metal may be worn over
the abdomen (as we have explained) for aiding the desirable objects
thus detailed.
Lead,
as a jewel, would not be handsome of appearance, nor commend itself as
lending ornamental attractions. Nevertheless, it is a metal useful for
maintaining the skin-surface of the body in health, and freedom from
outbreaks. Likewise it is found to foster old age.
Tin,
which may be easily worn as pliable light foil, is of famous promise
against intestinal worms ; the engendering of these it notably
obviates. Much after the same fashion as Lead, it is a capital adjuvant
appliance for healing indolent sores.
Zinc,
made (together with Copper) into a finger-ring, will, by its use as
such, obviate neuralgic rheumatism : also it will control bronchial
phlegm, and profuse night sweats. Moreover this appliance will hold
spasmodic affections in check.
Iron
is of every-day proximity to ourselves, (and our horses,) as embedded
in the fabric of our footgear. Its mystic potency within the Bloodstone
(infinitesimally) against haemorrhages gives a high remedial rank to
the same for styptic wear as a jewel. To this wonderful endowment a
special degree of importance is to be attached.
When
the inert metallic Iron of the soil is appropriated by plants, certain
complex bodies of the vegetables combine with it, and convert it into
an organised iron-compound ; and this affords pabulum to the blood.
We
do nS*t include Lead, Tin, Iron, or Zinc, among the " Nobler Metals."
But none the less do they occupy in the mineral world a place of
fundamental
