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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The Contents of the Third BOOK.

I. The Secret Book of Artefius Longaevus.

CHap: 1. The Preface to the Reader: 433
Chap. 2. The Epistle of Johannes Pontanus of the Secret Fire: 437
Chap. 3. Of the Composition of our Antimonial Vinegar, or the Secret Water: 444
Chap. 4. Of the Operations of our Antimonial Vinegar, or Mi∣neral Water: 447
Chap. 5. Of other Operations of our Secret Mineral Water, and its Tincture: 450
Chap. 6. Of what substance Me∣tals are to Consist, in order to this Work: 455
Chap. 7. Of the Wonderful things done by our Water, in altering Page [unnumbered] and changing Bodies: 458
Chap. 8. Of the Affinity of our Water, and other wonderful things done by it: 461
Chap. 9. Of Sublimation; or the separating of the Pure from the Impure, by the Water: 467
Chap. 10. Of the Separation of the Pure parts from the Impure: 472
Chap. 11. Of the Soul which is extracted by our Water, and made to Ascend: 475
Chap. 12. Of Digestion, and how the Spirt is made thereby: 480
Chap. 13. Of the beginning of the Work, and a Summary of what is to be done: 484
Chap. 14. Of the Easiness and Simplicity of this Work, and of our Philosophick Fire: 489
Chap. 15. Of the three kinds of Fires of the Philosophers in par∣ticular: 492
Chap. 16. Of the Colors of our Philosophick Tincture or Stone: 495
Chap. 17. Of the Perfect Bodies, their Putrefaction, Corruptions Digestion and Tincture: 498
Chap. 18. Of the Multiplication of the Philosophick Tincture: 504
Chap. 19. Of Sublimation in par∣ticular, and Separation of the Pure from the Impure: 508
Chap. 20. Of Digestion, Sublima∣tion and Separation of the Bo∣dies, for the perfection of the Work: 512
Chap. 21. Of the Secret Operati∣on of the Water and Spirit on the Body: 515
Chap. 22. Of the Signs of the end of the Work, and the perfection thereof: 518

II. The Hieroglyphicks of Flammel.

Chap. 23. The beginning of Flam∣mels Book, which is the pe∣roration of the whole: 521
Chap. 24. The Explication of the Hieroglyphick Figures: and of the Book of Abraham the Jew: 522
Chap. 25. Of his Pilgrimage into Spain, and meeting with a Jew∣ish Priest, who in part inter∣preted the said Book: 527
Chap. 26. Of the Projection which he and his Wife made upon Mercury: and of the Hospitals, Churches and Chappels which they Built: 532
Chap. 27. The Theological Inter∣pretation of these Hierogly∣phicks: 537
Chap. 28. The Philosophical In∣terpretation according to Her∣mes: 540
Chap. 20. Of the two Dragons of a Yellowish, Blew, and Black Color: 546
Chap. 30. Of the Man and Wo∣man cloathed in an Orange co∣lored Gown, in a Field Azure and Blew, with their Motto's: 553
Chap. 31. Of the Figure like Paul the Apostle in a White and Yellow Robe, with a Man Kneeling by his Feet, in a Robe Page [unnumbered] of Orang, Black and White: 558
Chap. 32. Of the Green Field with two Resuscitants, two Men and one Woman, all in White: two Angels beneath, over whom is the Figure of our Lord and Saviour, Judging the World, in a Robe Citrine White: 564
Chap. 33. Of the Field white and Blew, with the two Angels of an Orange color: 567
Chap. 34. Of the Figure like Peter the Apostle, in a Robe Citrine Red holding a Key; a Woman kneeling by his Feet in an Orange colored Robe: 570
Chap. 35. Of the Dark Violet Field, in which is a Man of a red Purple colour, holding the Foot of a Lyon, red as Vermi∣lion, having wings.: 574
Chap. 36. Flammel's Summary of Philosophy: 576

III. Roger Bacon's Radix Mundi.

Chap. 37. Of the Original of Me∣tals, and principle of the Mine∣ral work: 585
Chap. 38. Of Mercury, the second principle of the work: 588
Chap. 39. Of the purification of Metalls and Mercury, for the work: 590
Chap. 40. Of the conjunction of the Principles, for this great work: 592
Chap. 41. Of Vessels, Lute, Clo∣sing, and Times of the Philoso∣phick work: 395
Chap. 42. Of the Philosophers Fire, kinds of Government thereof: 597
Chap. 43. Of the AEnigma's of Philosophers, their Deceptions, praecautions, &c.: 600
Chap. 44. Of the various Signs ap∣pearing in every Operation: 602
Chap. 45. Of the Eduction of the Whlteness out of the Black Matter: 605
Chap. 46. Of the way how to Educe the red Tincture out of the White: 607
Chap. 47. Of the Multiplication of Our Medicine by Dissoluti∣on: 609
Chap. 48. Of the Multiplication of Our Medicine by Fermenta∣tion: 611
Chap. 49. Of the Differences of the Medicine, and proportions used in projection: 615
Chap. 50. Of Projection, and how it is performed upon the Metals: 617
Chap. 51. Of the compleat. or per∣fection of the whole work: 618

The Second Book of Roger Bacon, called, Speculum Alchymiae

Chap. 52. The entrance into this work and definition of the Art: 621
Chap. 53. Of the Natural princi∣ples and Generation of Metals and Minerals: 622
Page [unnumbered] Chap. 54. Of the nearest matter out of which the Elixir is drawn: 624
Chap. 55. Of the nearest matter of our Stone, yet more plainly: 627
Chap. 56. Of the manner of Working, regulating, and con∣tinuing the Fire: 630
Chap. 57. Of the Quality of the Vessels and Fornaces: 632
Chap. 58. Of the colors Acciden∣tal and Essential appearing in the work: 635
Chap. 59. Of the manner of Pro∣jection upon any of the Imper∣fect Metals: 637
Chap. 60. A short Recapitulation of the whole work: 640

IV. George Ripley's Medulla Alchymiae.

Chap. 61. The Preface to the Arch-Bishop of York: 643
Chap. 62. A farther Discourse of the Philosophers Mercury: 648
Chap. 63. Of the Mineral Stone, and Philosophick Fires: 652
Chap. 64. The manner of Elixi∣ration with the Fire against Na∣ture: 657
Chap. 65. The Practice upon the Calx of the Body dissolved: 660
Chap. 66. Another way of Elix∣irating Gold by the Fire against Nature: 665
Chap. 67. Two other Mineral Elixirs, or two other processes of Mercury: 669
Chap. 68. The second of the for∣mer Elixirs, with Mercury and the Body Alchymick: 672
Chap. 69. Of the Vegetable Stone: 674
Chap. 70. The remaining Process of the Vegetable Stone: 679
Chap. 71. Of Our Animal Stone: 285
Chap. 72. The Reserved Secret Explicated: 685
Chap. 73. Ripley's Philosophick Axioms out of the Theatrum Chymicum.: 687

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