A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen's practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius, phylosopher, and physitian in Germany. Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie, dwelling on the east-side of Spittle-fields, neer London.
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A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen's practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius, phylosopher, and physitian in Germany. Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie, dwelling on the east-side of Spittle-fields, neer London.
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Partlicius, Simeon, fl. 1620-1624.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange: And by S. Howes, J. Garfield, and R. Westbrook,
1654.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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"A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen's practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius, phylosopher, and physitian in Germany. Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie, dwelling on the east-side of Spittle-fields, neer London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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descriptionPage 162
Mettals.
1 SOme alter by Conservation, some by Cor∣ruption.
Those which alter by Conservation, do it by a Quality either Manifest or Hidden. They which alter by a way Manifest, do it by a first or second Quality.
By a first Quality they are Temperate, as Gold; or Intemperate, namely, Hot and Dry, or Cold.
2 Those which are Hot and Dry, are so either
1 In the second Degree, as Iron, and Cro∣cus Martis, Cynnabaris.
2 In the third Degree; as Vert-de-greece, Burnt Brass, Scales of Brass, Allum, Salt Niter, Brimstone, Chalsites. Or
3 In the fourth Degree; as Vitriol, Sanda∣rach, Chrysocolla, Misy, Sory, Melante∣ria.
3 Intemperately Cold and dry, are either
1 In the first Degree; as Silver, Litharge of Silver.
2 In the second Degree; as Quick-silver, Lead, Plumbago, wash'd Lead, burnt Lead, Ceruss.
4 Altering by a second Quality, are
1 Binding; as Allum, Tutty, Pompholix, Vitriol, Spodium, Antispodium.
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2 Glutinative; as Lead, Allum, Cadmia, &c.
5 Some by corrupting are venemous; as Quick-silver, Auripigmentum, Morter of a Wall, Litharge, Ceruss, Sandarach.
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