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Sardius, Sard

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NATURAL HISTORY OF GEMS.
swelled in the progress of the Middle Ages, so that we find Albertus Magnus affirming that the Sard exhilarated the soul, drove away fear, baffled witchcraft, and was an anti­dote to all poisons arising from the corruption of the blood ; besides its ancient property as a styptic. Cardan asserts it gives success in lawsuits, and makes the wearer rich. The philosophic De Laet, in 1647, though ridiculing all these fables which he quotes, declares from his own experience its power to stop the bleeding from the nose ; and that rings were cut entirely out of it to be worn for that object Such are still made and worn in Italy, and with the same idea.
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