Physicall and chymicall vvorks,: composed by Geor. Phædro, sirnamed the Great, of Gelleinen; viz. [brace] 1. His physicall and chymicall practise. 2. His physicall and chymicall cure of the plague. 3. His lesser chirurgery. 4. His chymicall fornace. Being the chymicall way and manner of cure of the most difficile and incurable diseases: as also the preparing those secrets; with the elucidation of the characteristicall cœlestiall physick. Selected out of the Germane and Latine language; by the industry of John Andreas Schenckius of Graffenberg, Doctor of Physick.
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Physicall and chymicall vvorks,: composed by Geor. Phædro, sirnamed the Great, of Gelleinen; viz. [brace] 1. His physicall and chymicall practise. 2. His physicall and chymicall cure of the plague. 3. His lesser chirurgery. 4. His chymicall fornace. Being the chymicall way and manner of cure of the most difficile and incurable diseases: as also the preparing those secrets; with the elucidation of the characteristicall cœlestiall physick. Selected out of the Germane and Latine language; by the industry of John Andreas Schenckius of Graffenberg, Doctor of Physick.
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Fedro von Rodach, George, fl. 1566.
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London :: Printed for William Sheares, at the Bible in St Pauls Churchyard, near the little North doore,
1654.
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"Physicall and chymicall vvorks,: composed by Geor. Phædro, sirnamed the Great, of Gelleinen; viz. [brace] 1. His physicall and chymicall practise. 2. His physicall and chymicall cure of the plague. 3. His lesser chirurgery. 4. His chymicall fornace. Being the chymicall way and manner of cure of the most difficile and incurable diseases: as also the preparing those secrets; with the elucidation of the characteristicall cœlestiall physick. Selected out of the Germane and Latine language; by the industry of John Andreas Schenckius of Graffenberg, Doctor of Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A90637.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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A Catalogue of the Cures performed by the speciall good Medicaments of George Phaedro, a Famous Physitian.
The Chymcall Practicke containeth these following Cures.
THE cure of Agues.
The cure of the Plague.
A composition of the camphor'd liquor of the Treacle.
The cure of the Head-ach.
The cure of Delirium, or distractedness of the Braine.
The cure of Epilepsie.
The severall Gouts cure, as of Apoplexie,
Palsie, and of the beginnings of any such con∣tractures. vix. of the Chollicke, the Iliack, Passion, and of other affects, as of the Stupor, Spasmus, tremor, &c.
A description of rectified Aquavitae.
A singular remedy for the Cramp.
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To cure any theume or defluxion of any hu∣mour.
The true way to make the Panchimagogum.
To cure all manner of defects of the eyes.
To cure deafnesse.
To restore a lively colour to the face.
To purge the bleeding Flux.
To cure the Tooth Ague.
To cure the scurvy or foulnesse of teeth.
To cure the Squiney.
To cure the Hidgecock (phlegmon of the di∣aphragme.)
The cure of the Gout.
An unguent for the dissolving of old tartare∣ous Knots.
To cure sleepinesse or Lethargy.
To cure the consumption of the Lungs.
To cure shortnesse of breath.
To cure the stoppage of the Breast.
To cure the Pleurisie.
To rectify an ill digesting Stomack.
To cure the Spleen.
To cure the Dropsie.
To cure the Iaundise.
to cure the burning of the throat.
To stay Vomiting.
To cure the stone Colicke.
To cure the constipation or the stones of the entrals.
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To cure a loosenesse.
To expell worms.
To cure the Emrods before and behind, and the dry chaps in hands and feet.
To cure the itching unto copulation in Wo∣men.
To cure the Imposthumes of the reines and of the bladder.
To cure the gravell or stone.
To cure the Carcinoma of the Matrix.
To expell the false conception.
To cure the Ruptures.
To cure the suffocation of the Mother.
To cure the Hystericall affects; the suppression of the monethly courses, and their immode∣rate running, and of the whites.
The composition of the uterine Elixer.
To cure barrennesse.
To cure the venereall disease.
To mend baldnesse.
To cure an exulceration in the throat.
To firme teeth that are loose.
To cure a virulent running of the Reines.
To cure botches about the privy Members.
To cure Leprosie.
To cure an ill coloured skin, overunning the face, and to get off some nastiness of the hair.
To cure the scabs.
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To cure the Cramp.
To cure venemous contagious symptomes.
The curing of St Antonies fire.
To cure imposthumes.
To cure ulcers.
To heale contumacious Ulcers, which will not shut, by reason of a wild or rotten flesh, and other defects.
To cure a wound.
A vulnerary unguent.
A proper oyle for wounds.
A proper Balsame for wounds.
A Medico-chymicall cure of the falling sick∣nesse.
A cure of the Plague of Galenicall and Chymicall materials, containing. these following.
PRophylacticum, or a defensive against the Plague.
A potion against the Plague.
An Electuary for the P••st.
A Balsame for the Plague.
The Coelestiall treacle against all kinds of poi∣son.
The olympick or wonderfull plaister.
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In the lesser Surgery the following things are to be noted, besides the noble scope of curing.
THree sorts of open sores, and their Physi∣call cure.
The first is such, how it is cured.
The second is such, how its cure is.
The third is such, and the manner of its cure.
A vulnerary decoction.
A vulnerary Wine.
The essence of Imperatoria.
The secret of oculi Cancrorum.
The essence of the mystery of Tartar.
How the heavenly cure ought to be divided.
An explication of the Specifick cure.
The quality of Hypericon.
The vertue of red Corals, and of the blood of pickrels.
The vertue of Sydericum.
The operation of a silver money made of Mer∣cury.
The effects of the great Comfry, of March∣mallows, of Mercurialis, and of Chameleon the blacke.
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In the Treatise of the Chymicall Fur∣nace these secrets are contained.
THE liquor of Gold.
The essence of Wine and of Herbas, whereof Aquavitae's are made.
The liquor of Ophirizum.
The oyle of Pearies.
The tincture of Corals.
The essence of Antimony.
The secret of the Quintessence.
Of Mercurius dulcis.
Of the spirit of Vitriol.
Of Tartar.
Of the philosophick salts.
Of the extract of Satyrium.
Of Mumia.
Of the Hermaphrodite.
Of the preparation of sal gemmae, and if the water of Salt.
Of the essence of Sol spirit of Wine.
Of salt of Wine.
Of alcolisated Spirit of Wine.
Of the essence and forme of wines.
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The manner of drawing the essence from hearbes.
Of the diaphoretick gold.
Of the preparation of Mumia.
Of the Turbith Minerall.
Of the Alchool of Wine.
Of the oyle of Gold.
Of the diaphoretick Spirit of Tartar.
Of the oyle of Saturne and of its sal.
Of the essence of Antimony.
The use of the essence or tincture of Antimo∣ny.
Theophrastus his Laudanum Opiatum which he made use of as a specificum a∣gainst all Agues, found among the secrets of Phaedro.
The oyle of Arsenick and its use.
Butter of Sol for the Aeschara.
Praecipitated Aquila.
The purging of Sal Armonick.
Aquafort.
The rectifying of Aquafort.
The purging of Mercury.
The purging of Antimony.
The rednesse of Antimony.
Oyle of wax is instead of a Balsame for hea∣ling of wounds.
Dissolved Unicorne.
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The Philosophers Acetum.
Narcotick and diaphoretick Antimony.
Of Tartar.
Of the use of Tartar.
Of the liquor of Tartar.
Of the oyle of Dwarfe-Elder.
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