‘Betwixt our Divine and Physician, there is at all no dispute de facto, about the verity of the fact; for both unanimously concede the cure to be wrought upon the wounded person: The contention lies onely in this, that the Physician asserts this Magnetical Cure to be purely Natural, but the Divine will needs have it Satanical’ (Helmont & Charleton. A Ternary of Paradoxes, 1649. 4); ‘Inter theologum & medicum non est quaestio facti’ (Helmont. Ortus medicinae, 1652. 595b); ‘I know an Herb, commonly obvious, which if it be rubbed, and cherished in thy hand, until it wax warm, you may hold fast the hand of another person, until that also grow warm, and he shall continually burn with an ardent love, and fixt dilection of thy person, for many days together. I held in my hand, first bathed in the steam of this love procuring plant the foot of a dog, for some few minutes: The dog, wholly renouncing his old Mistress, instantly followed me, and courted me so hotly, that in the night he lamentably howled at my Chamber door, that I should open and admit him. There are some now living in Bruxels, who are witnesses to me, and can attest the truth of this fact’ (14); ‘Adsunt Bruxellae mihi hujus facti testes’ (599a); ‘Since in earnest I have held forth examples of the Fact, in Sublunaries, and brought upon the stage very many and very apposite instances, as that of the insititious or engrafted Nose, of the Saphire, of Arsmarte, Asarum, and most other Herbs’ (35); ‘Siquidem in sublunaribus exempla facti’ (604b); ‘For it is an action of insolent petulancy for any, therefore to deny the contingence of that fact, which is everywhere so trivial and frequent, that it can hardly escape the observation of any’ (35); ‘Idcirco inseolentis est petulantiae, negare facti esse’ (604b).