I. PONE ergo corpora perfe∣cta in aqua nostra, in vase Hermeticè sigillato, super
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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- London :: Printed for T. Howkins ... J. Taylor ... and J. Harris ...,
- 1692.
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- Medicine, Ancient.
- Medicine, Arab.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 4, 2024.
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ignem lenem, & coque continuò donec perfectè resolvantur in oleum pretiosissimum.
II. Coque [inquit Adfar] igne leni sicut per ovorum nu∣tritionem, donec solvantur cor∣pora, & eorum tinctura con∣junctissima [nota] extrahatur.
III. Non autem extrahitur tota simul, sed parum ad pa∣rum egreditur, omni die, omni borâ, donec in longo tempore compleatur hujusmodi solutio, & quod solvitur semper petit superius.
IV. Et in tali dissolutione sit ignis lenis, & continuus, donec in aquam viscosam sol∣vantur impalpabilem, & tota egrediatur tinctura in colore ni∣gredinis primum, quod est sig∣num verae solutionis.
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V. Continua deinde decoctio∣nem quousque fiat aqua perma∣nens alba, quia in suo regens balneo, fiet postea clara & tan∣dem deveniet, sicut argentum vivum vulgare, scandens per aêra super aquam primam.
VI. Ideoque cum videris corpora soluta in aquam visco∣sam, scias tunc corpor is esse con∣versa in vaporem, & te habere animas à corporibus mortuis separatas, & in spirituum or∣dinem sublimatione delatas.
VII. Unde ambo cum parte aquae nostrae, facta sunt spiri∣tus in aêra scandentes, ibique corpus compositum ex mare & foemina, ex Sole & Luna, & ex illa subtillissimanatura mun∣data per sublimationem, accipit vitam, inspiratur à suo hu∣more.
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VIII. Id est, à sua aqua, sicut homo ab aêre, quare mul∣tiplicabitur deinceps ac crescet in sua specie, sicut res omnes caeterae.
IX. In tali ergo elevatione, & sublimatione philosophica, conjunguntur omnes ad invi∣cem, & corpus novum inspira∣tum ab aêre vivit vegetabili∣ter, quod est miraculosum.
X. Quare nisi corpora igne, & aqua attenuentur, quousque ascendant in spiritus, & quous∣que fiant, ut aqua & fumus, vel Mercurius, nihil fit in Arte.
XI. Illis tamen ascendentibus in aêre nascuntur, & in aêre vertuntur, fiuntque vita cum vita, ut numquam possint se∣parari, sicut aqua mixta aquae.
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XII. Ideoque natus in aēre sapienter dicitur, quoniam om∣nino spiritualis efficitur:
XIII. Ipse namque Vultur sine alis volans, supra montem clamitat dicens, Ego sum al∣bus nigri, & rubeus albi, & citrinus rubei filius, vera dicens non mentior.