Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...

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Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...

Author

Paracelsus, 1493-1541.

Publication

London :: Printed by T. Newcomb for T. Heath, and are to be sold at his shop ...,

1653.

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Subject terms

Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.

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"Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28634.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honorable Basill Earle of Denbigh Viscount Feilding and Baron of Newnham.
• . The Translator to the Reader.
• On his worthy Friend Mr. Parkhurst and his Translation of this Mumiall Treatise.
• To his ingenious Friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst the industrious Translator of this Excellent Treatise.
• To my honored friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst Translator of this Magneti∣call Tract.
• table of contents
• Reader.
• A MUMIALL TREATISE.
  • CHAP. I. Of the definition, diversitie, constructi∣on, nature, and property of Mumie.
  • CHAP. II. Of the differences of Mumie.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Extraction of Aereall Mumie.
    • The first manner of Extraction of Mumie: Or, Of the Tincture of the Microcosme.
    • The third manner of Extraction, or of Aereall Mumie.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Spirituall Mumie of a Micr¦cosmicall living body.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the use of Spirituall Mumie (in generall.)
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Time destinated by the Heavens for the proposed Operations.
  • CHAP. XII. To reconcile private or publick Enemies.
  • CHAP. XII. o reconcile the Ape and Serpent (na∣turally hating one another) and other Animals, who are by nature enemies.
  • CHAP. XIII. To procure a mutuall love and affection betwixt a Man and his Wife.
  • CHAP. XV. To cure both sorts of Jaundies.
  • CHAP. XVIII. To cure Feavers by this Mystery.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of the Oppilations of the Liver, Brain, Lungs, Spleen, Reynes, &c.
  • CHAP. XXII. Of Wounds and Ulcers.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Of the Hernia, or Burstennesse.
  • CHAP. XXIV. Of Fluxions and Salt Rheums causing pains and sorenesse in the Teeth and Eyes, &c.
  • CHAP. XXV. Of Menstruous Evacuation and Reten∣tion.
  • CHAP. XXVI. Of the Consumption & Hectick Feaver.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of particular Blastings.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Against Sterlity or Barrennesse: And also the manner of detracting strength from an Horse, and transmitting it into a Man, or from any Man or Beast into any other.