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 May 16, 2024.

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I. ET hoc opus non est gra∣vis laboris illi qui scit & intelligit, atque non est ma∣teria illius tam chara (cum parva quantitas sufficiat) quod excusari quis possit ut ab opere manum suspendat.

II. Quia est adeo breve & facile, ut meritò dicatur opus mulierum, & ludus puerorum.

III. Age ergo gnaviter, fili mi, ora Deum, lege assiduè li∣bros, liber enim librum ape∣rit, cogita profundè, fuge res evanescentes in igne, quia non habes intentum tuum in his re bus adustibilibus, sed tantum

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in decoctione aquae tua ex lumi∣naribus extractae.

IV. Nam ex ista aqua color, & pondus adducitur usque ad infinitum, & haec aqua est fu∣mus albus, qui in corporibus perfectis veluti anima defluit, & eorem nigredinem & im∣munditiem ab eis penitus aufert, & corpora in unum consolidat, & eorum aquam multiplicat.

V. Et nihil est quod à cor∣poribus perfectis, id est, a Sole & Luna colorena possit auffere nisi Azoth, id est, nostra aqua quae colorat, & album reddit corpus rubeum secundum regi∣mina sua.

VI. Sed loquamur de igni∣bus. Ignis ergo noster minera∣lis est, aequalis est, continuus est, non vaporat, nisi nimium

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excitetur, de sulphure participat, aliunde sumitur quàm à mate∣ria, omnia diruit, solvit, con∣gelat, & calcinat, & est arti∣ficialis ad inveniendum.

VII. Et compendium sine sumptu etiam saltem parvo, est etiam humidus, vaporosus, di∣gerens, alterans, penetrans, subtilis, aereus, non violentus, incomburens, circundans, con∣tinens, unicus.

VIII. Et est fons, aquae vi∣vae, quae circuit & continet lo∣cum ablutionis Regis & Regi∣nae, in toto opere ignis iste hu∣midus tibi sufficit, in principio, medio, & fine, quia in ipso to∣ta ars consistit.

IX. Et est ignis naturalis, contra naturam, in naturalis, & sine adustione, & pro cor∣rollario est ignis calidus, siccus, humidus, & frigidus, cogitate

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super haec, & facite recte absque natura extranea.

X. Quod si hos ignes non in∣telligitis, audite haec ex abstru∣siori, & occulta antiquorum de ignibus cavilatione, nun∣quam in libris hucusque scripta.

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