I. REcipit ergo compositum, mundationem per Ig∣nem nostrum humidum, aissol vendo scilicet & sublimando quod purum & album est, ejectis foecibus ut vomitus qui sponte fit, (inquit Azinabam.)
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60662.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2025.
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II. Nam in tali dissoluti∣one, & sublimatione naturali fit Elementorum deligatio mun dificatio, & separatio puri ab impuro.
III. Ita ut purum & album ascendat sursum, & impurum & terreum fixum remaneat in fundo Aquae & vasis.
IV. Quod est dimittendum & removendum, quoniam nul∣lius est valoris, recipiendo so∣lum mediam substantiam al∣bam, fluentem, & fundentem, & dimittendo terram foeculen∣tam, quae remansit inferius in fundo.
V. Ex parte praecipuè A∣quae, quae est scoria & Terra damnata, quae nihil valet, nec unquam aliquid boni prae∣stare potest, ut illa clara Ma∣teria alba, pura, & nitida; quam solam debemus accipere.
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VI. Et ad hunc Caphare∣um Scopulum saepe numerò na∣vis atque scientia discipulorum Philosophiae, (ut mihi etiam aliquando accidit) impruden∣tissimè colliditur, quia Philoso∣phi saepissimè centrarium as∣serunt.
VII. Nempe, nihil remo∣vendum, praeter humiditatem, id est, nigredinem, quod ta∣men dicunt ac scribunt tan∣tum, ut possint decipere incau∣tos, qui absque Magistro, aut indefatigabili lectura, & ora∣tione ad Deum omnipotentem, aureum hoc vellus avellere cu∣piunt.
VIII. Notate igitur, quod separatio, diviso & sublimatio ista absque dubio est Clavis to∣tius Operis.
IX. Igitur, post putrefacti∣onem & dissolutionem horum Corporum, Corpora nostra se elevant in altum, usque ad su∣perficiem Aquae dissolventis,
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in colorem albedinis, & haec albedo est vita.
X. Nam in illa albedine Anima Antimonialis, & Mer∣curialis, infunditur cum spiri∣tibus Solis & Lunae nutu na∣turae, quae separat subtile ab spisso, & purum ab impuro.
XI. Elevando paulatim partem subtilem Corporis à suis foecibus, donec totum purum separetur & elevetur.
XII. Et in hoc completur nostra sublimatio philosophica & naturalis.
XIII. Et cum haec albe∣dine, infusa est in Corpore A∣nima, id est, virtus minera∣lis, quae subtilior est Igne, cum sit vera quinta essentia, & Vita, quae nasci appetit, & sese spoliare à grossis foecibus terrestribus, quae illi advene∣rant
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ex parte menstrualis, & corruptionis.
XIV. Et in hoc est nostra philosophica sublimatio, non in vulgari iniquo Mercurio, qui nullas habet qualitates similes illisquibus ornatur Mercurius noster extractus à cavernis su∣is vitriolicis, sed redeamus ad sublimationem.