Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

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Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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London : Printed for J. Dawks ... and sold by S. Sprint [and 6 others] ...,
M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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"Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60561.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 31, 2024.

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3. The Elixir of Metals.

Martial Regulus of Antimo∣ny ℥ ij. of the best English Tin, red Copper, a. ℥ j. melt them in a Crucible with a strong fire, so that the Copper totally disappear, which done, pour it forth into an iron Cone.Of this mass ℥ j. of fine Nitre ℥ ij. beat them into pouder, and mix them well together, and cast it into a Crucible red-hot, by spoon∣fuls or turns; which boil together

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so long, till your whole mass it turned into a scoria of a greenish blew colour; so will it obtain a fiery acrimony: pour it then forth, and before it can attract the humidity of the Air; beat it into pouder, and affuse thereon Alcohol of Wine ℥ xxiv. digest 24 hours; so will the Spirit be tinged of a red colour; in the body or substance of which Tincture will be hid the Salts of the aforesaid Metals, before-hand resolved, by the cor∣rosrve Salt of the Antimony, and afterwards by the fulmination of the Nitre; thus have you the po∣tent Elixir, or mighty Tincture of Metals.

This Tincture is Cephalick, Cardiack, and Stomatick, and by reason of the Salts, powerfully cuts tough Phlegm, and resolves rebel∣lious Obstructions; it extingui∣shes forein, austere, acid Fer∣ments of the Bowels and Blood, restoring and enlivening the na∣tural Ferment of the Blood, sup∣pressed thro' coagulating Acids; for which reason it has a mighty power in curing of the Scurvy, Cachexy, Green-sickness, Obstru∣ctruction of the Courses, Fits of the Mother, Falling-sickness, Pal∣sy, Apoplexy; Sleepy Diseases, as the Lethargy, Coma, &c. it carries off the Disease by Urine, and comforts the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and other Bowels. It is given also in Nephritick pai•…•… as of the Stone, in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and the French Pox. Dose 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gut. x, gradually ascending 〈◊〉〈◊〉 gut. xl. in Wine, or some 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Vehicle.

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