An English courtier, privateer, and founding member of the Royal Society, whose lecture on the powder of sympathy, which healed wounds by treating the weapon or a bloodied bandage, was a best-seller across Europe.

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  1. Weapon-salveAn ointment, with moss from a dead man’s skull, human fat, blood, and other ingredients, a

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