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352 KIRBV’S' WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
and true, which I have seriously, though over hastily, con-
firmed to you, under the hand of
Patrick Makel Wian,
Minister of Lesbury.”
Francisc. Plemp. Fundam. Med. Munic. sect. 4. c. 8. p. 120.
That worthy person, D. Pieruccius, a lawyer of Padua,
and host to the great Scioppius, did assure me, that a certain
German, then living in Italy, had, at sixty years of age, reco-
vered to himself both new teeth and black hair, and had
extended his life to a great many years, by the use only of
an extract of black hellebore with wine and roses.
Barthol. Hist. Anatomic, cent. 5. Hist. 28. p. 51.
Alexander Benedictus tells of Victoria Fabrianensis,
a woman being fourscore years of age, that her teeth came
anew ; and though the hair of her head was fallen off, yet
it also came afresh.
Donat. Hist. Med. Mirab. I. 6. c. 2. p. 300.
Torquemada assures us, that being at Rome, about the
year 1531, it was reported throughout Italy, that at Taren-
tum there lived an old man, who at the age of an hundred
years was grown young again: he had changed his skin like
unto the snake, and had recovered a new being ; withal he was
become so young and fresh, that those who had seen him
before could then scarce believe their own eyes ; and having
continued above fifty years in this estate, he grew at length
to be so old, that he seemed to be made of barks of trees ;
whereunto he further adds another story of the like nature.
HakeweVs Apolog. I. 3. c. 1. sect. 6. p. 167, 168.
Ferdinand Lopez of Castegnede, Historiographer to the
King of Portugal, in the eighth book of his Chronicle, re-
lateth, that Nonnio de Cugne, being Viceroy at the
Indies, in the year 1536, there was a man brought unto him,
and true, which I have seriously, though over hastily, con-
firmed to you, under the hand of
Patrick Makel Wian,
Minister of Lesbury.”
Francisc. Plemp. Fundam. Med. Munic. sect. 4. c. 8. p. 120.
That worthy person, D. Pieruccius, a lawyer of Padua,
and host to the great Scioppius, did assure me, that a certain
German, then living in Italy, had, at sixty years of age, reco-
vered to himself both new teeth and black hair, and had
extended his life to a great many years, by the use only of
an extract of black hellebore with wine and roses.
Barthol. Hist. Anatomic, cent. 5. Hist. 28. p. 51.
Alexander Benedictus tells of Victoria Fabrianensis,
a woman being fourscore years of age, that her teeth came
anew ; and though the hair of her head was fallen off, yet
it also came afresh.
Donat. Hist. Med. Mirab. I. 6. c. 2. p. 300.
Torquemada assures us, that being at Rome, about the
year 1531, it was reported throughout Italy, that at Taren-
tum there lived an old man, who at the age of an hundred
years was grown young again: he had changed his skin like
unto the snake, and had recovered a new being ; withal he was
become so young and fresh, that those who had seen him
before could then scarce believe their own eyes ; and having
continued above fifty years in this estate, he grew at length
to be so old, that he seemed to be made of barks of trees ;
whereunto he further adds another story of the like nature.
HakeweVs Apolog. I. 3. c. 1. sect. 6. p. 167, 168.
Ferdinand Lopez of Castegnede, Historiographer to the
King of Portugal, in the eighth book of his Chronicle, re-
lateth, that Nonnio de Cugne, being Viceroy at the
Indies, in the year 1536, there was a man brought unto him,