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 17, 2024.

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Diaphoretick Gold.

VVHich purgeth the blood, and the marrow in bones and the whole body. Draw the red colour from the red Mercurie, being prepared with the water of

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eggs by the said Spirit of Wine, as you heard above: Put an equall quantity of the soule of Gold, let it stand in putrefaction to be purged, then separate the liquor from the Spirit of Wine: the dose of it is gr. iij vel iiij. to be taken in Malmsey, for three daies together fasting. Theophrastus saith, that this liquor cureth the Leprosie, contractures, and purgeth the blood mightily. More of this I spoke in the administration of Magna Chirurgia.

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