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
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II. The Alchymick Secrets of Kalid Persicus.
- Chap. 22. Of the Difficulties of this Art
- 284
- Chap. 23. Of the four Principal Operations, Solution, Congela∣tion, Albification, and Rubifi∣cation
- 288
- Chap. 24. Of the Latter two Ope∣rations, viz. Albification and Rubification
- 291
- Chap. 25. Of the Nature of things appertaining to this Work of Decoction, and its, Effects
- 293
- Chap. 26. Of Subtilization, Solu∣tion, Coagulation, and Com∣mixion
- 295
- Chap. 27. Of Fixation of the Spi∣rit, Decoction, Trituration, and Washing
- 297
- Chap. 28. Of the Fire fit for this Work
- 299
- Chap. 29. Of the Separation of the Elements
- 300
- Chap. 30. Of the Commixion of the Elements which were Se∣parated
- 302
- Chap. 31. Of the Solution of the Stone compounded, and Coa∣gulation of the Stone Dissolved
- 304
- Chap. 32. That Our Stone is but One, and of the Nature thereof
- 306
- Chap. 33. How to make the Stone both White and Red
- 307
- Chap. 34. Kalid's Secret of Se∣crets, or Stone of the Philoso∣phers Explicated
- 310
- Chap. 35. A farther Explication of this Matter.
- 315
- Chap. 36 The Key which opens the Mystery of this Grand Elixir
- 327
- To make Aurum Potabile
- 333