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50 slightly touched one of them; at the end of this world all four will be taken out.

Physiology. For each kind of food there is a separate department in the stomach. Similar articles of food are changed into similar tissues in the human body. When God created each disease, he has appointed a vegetable near by it as a remedy or antidote. Lockman, the originator of medicine, was gifted by the power of hearing the voices of various plants as to what malady they were the remedy. Some favored persons have authority over the evil eyes and sicknesses, and can bind them with threads.

Chemistry. The four elements of nature are water, earth, air and fire. Gold is composed of three common articles, as copper, brass and mercury; if you know the proportion, and if you can find the mysterious powder which, mixed with the said minerals, produes gold, you can manufacture the precious metal. By burning certain mysterious incenses you can control the jealous spirits that watch day and night over the hidden subterranean treasures and possess boundless riches. Be careful to repeat certain prayers in order to avoid the strokes of those evil spirits.

4. Supernatural Sciences Taught by Ulemahs.—About the Spirits. In the air and among the stars numerous evil spirits, or demons, reside. Some of them are so enormous and powerful as to threaten the earth and the moon and the sun. Comets are the tails of these gigantic demons, and the eclipses of the moon and the sun are their struggle to swallow them, which can be avoided by crying to God from