Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...

CHAP. LXI. How Ingression is procured.

I. BEcause it happens that a Medicine will sometimes mix, and some∣time not, therefore we shall

here declare the way of permixing, i. e. how every thing, or each particular Medicine not entering, may most profoundly acquire Ingress into a Body.

II. The way is by disso∣lution of that which Enters, and by dissolution of that which Enters not, and by commixing both Solutions: for it makes every thing to be Ingressive, of what kind soever it be, and to be cor∣joyned through its least parts.

III. Yet this is com∣pleated by Sublution: And Fusion is also accomplished by the same, in things not otherwise Fusible: where∣by they are more apt to have Ingress, and to trans∣mute.

IV. This is the cause why we Calcine some things, which are not of the nature of these, to wit, that they may be the better dissolved: and they are dissolved, that they may the better receive Impression from them; and from them likewise, by these be prepared and cleansed.

V. Or, We give Ingress to these which are not suf∣fered to enter by reason of their Spissitude, or Thick∣ness, with a manifold Re∣petition of the Sublimation, of Spirits not Inflamable up∣on them, to wit, of Arse∣nick, and Argent Vive not fixed; or with manifold Reiteration of the Solution of that which has not In∣gress.

VI. Yet this is a good Caution concerning things Impermixable, viz. That the Body be dissolved, which you would have to be changed and altered by these: and the things like∣wise Dissolved, which you would have both to enter and to alter.

VII. Nevertheless Solu∣tion cannot be made of all parts, but of some; with which this or that Body, not another, must be imbi∣bed time after time.

VIII. For by this means

it has Ingress only into this or that, necessarily; but this does not necessarily happen into any other Body.

IX. Every thing then must needs have Ingress by these ways; by the benefit whereof, it depends on the nature of that, to have In∣gress (as we said before) and to Transmute with the Commixtion found out.

X. By this precedent Di∣scourse, is compleated our said number of Ten Medi∣cines, with a sufficient Pro∣duction of them, [in order to the Great Work it self.]