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 20, 2024.

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Alcolised Spirit of Wine.

AND if you will have a most strong▪ and most fully graduated Spirit of Wine, for the opening and attracting of bo∣dies, and for gradation of formes, take of the Spirit of Wine as much as you please, dissolve its salt in it, let it stand in digestion well luted for a naturall day, set it in Sand

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or ashes, observe the degrees of fire, apply a large receiver, poure the spirit on the salt againe, this salt must be calcined againe to a whitenesse, poure Spirit of Wine on it, and shake it, and distill it againe; weigh the Salt to see whether it lost of its ponderosity; if it be too much fix'd, then putrifie it in Spirit of Wine in a Balmy; lastly, distill it so long, that all the salt be gone through the Alembick; and thus you have a Noble alco∣lisated Spirit.

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