He believed that all beasts had a fluid with magnetic force flowing around the body, and that even some inanimate objects such as wood, metal and water were magnetic. People got ill, he reasoned, because somewhere in their bodies the flow of their magnetic fluid was being blocked. Different metals, he thought, would have different kinds of therapeutic effects.
他認為萬物的體內都有磁力液體流動，即使是一些無生物如木頭、金屬和水也具有磁性；人體之所以會生病是因為體內某部分的磁液堵塞住，而不同的金屬可對疾病發揮不同的療效。