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Medicina practica: or, a practical physick

Shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies. As all sorts of aches and pains, apoplexies, agues, bleeding, fluxes, gripings, wind, shortness of breath, diseases of the brest and lungs, abortion, want of appetite, loss of the use of limbs, cholick, or belly-ach, apostems, thrushes, quinsies, deafness, bubo's cahexia, stone in the reins, and stone in the bladder: with the preparation of the praecipiolum, or universal medicine of Paracelsus. To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artefius Longaevus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon, and Goerge Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English; and carefully claused, or divided into chapters, and sections, for the most pleasant reading, and easier understanding of those authors. Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers. The whole completed in three books

by William Salmon, Paracelsus, Trismegistus Hermes, Artephius, Nicolas Flamel, al-Umaw.̄ Khālid ibn Yazīd, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Roger Bacon, George Ripley, Jean Baptiste van Helmont & Ramon Llull

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English

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Traditions: Alchemy and Hermeticism

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Alchemy, Medicine, Balsam de Chili

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Shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies. As all sorts of aches and pains, apoplexies, agues, bleeding, fluxes, gripings, wind, shortness of breath, diseases of the brest and lungs, abortion, want of appetite, loss of the use of limbs, cholick, or belly-ach, apostems, thrushes, quinsies, deafness, bubo's cahexia, stone in the reins, and stone in the bladder: with the preparation of the praecipiolum, or universal medicine of Paracelsus. To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artefius Longaevus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon, and Goerge Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English; and carefully claused, or divided into chapters, and sections, for the most pleasant reading, and easier understanding of those authors. Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers. The whole completed in three books

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1692Printed by W. Bonny, for Tho. Howkins, and John HarrrisEnglish—No ebook

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