CHAP. II.
AS for the composition of Receits which are pre∣scribed for Laxatives, there are two things needful which are to be ordered against the Laxation, the one
Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon.
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- Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon.
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- Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
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"Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28630.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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to comfort, the other to miitigate; and being thus or∣dered, this description of Receit'is void of all danger: First of all therefore, wee'l speak of that which belongs to comforting.
Take Spices, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, and others of that kind: But for that which appertains to Mittiga∣tion, take Anodynes, and let them be the least in Weight; and by these two things are those other (how many soe∣ver they are that are in the Receit) corrected: Nor is it in this place needful to observe this difference, viz. What purgeth Choller, or what purgeth Phlegm, but ra∣ther Experience is to be look't into, as to what is benefi∣cial, according as is mentioned in the manner of heal∣ing: For the consideration of Purging is the greatest thing of all, which a skilful Physician ought to ob∣serve.