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1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xix. 182 To conferr at the distance of the Indies by Sympathetick conveyances, may be as usual to future times, as to us in a litterary correspondence.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 152 He would..Cure Warts and Corns, with application Of Med'cines, to th' Imagination... And fire a Mine in China, here With Sympathetick Gunpowder.

1668 G. Hartman tr. K. Digby Choice Receipts 45 A Sympathetick cure for the Tooth-ach.—With an Iron-nail raise and cut the Gum from about the Teeth, till it bleed, and that some of the blood stick upon the nail; then drive it into a woodden beam up to the head: After this is done, you never shall have the tooth-ach in all your life.

1669 Digby's 2 Treat. (rev. ed.) (title page) Of the sympathetick powder. A discourse.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 28 July 2/1 The Friend..saw his own Sympathetick Needle moving of it self to every Letter which that of his Correspondent pointed at.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. xix. 32 Those sympathetic cures spoken of by Sir Kenelm Digby, who tells you that wounds have been healed by applying salves and plaisters to the instrument that made them.

1804 A. L. Barbauld Life Richardson in S. Richardson Corr. I. 12 In those times talismans and wounds cured by sympathetic powder..were seriously credited.

1905 E. Clodd Animism §13. 66 The numerous practices which come under the head of ‘sympathetic magic’, or the imitation of a cause to produce a desired effect.