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Medicina practica, or, Practical physick

containing the way of curing the more eminent and usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : whereunto is annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna

by William Salmon, Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English, Roger Bacon, Nicolas Flamel, Trismegistus. De lapidis philosophici secreto. English Hermes, Jabir ibn Hayyan. Summa perfectionis. English, 7th cent. Secreta alchymiae. English Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi, George Ripley, al-Umawī Khālid ibn Yazīd, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Artephius & Trismegistus Hermes

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  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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First section of Book 1 contains receipts and advice on treating diseases. The remainder of the work consists of translated alchemical treatises. See Hogart Books 2 and 3 have special t.p.'s. Book 2 entitled: Clavis alchymiae, or, Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, and Geber Arabs ... Book 3 entitled: Artephii liber secretus .. The 4 engravings after p. 334 are entitled: Geber's fornaces. The 4 engravings (some hand watercoloring) after p. 520 are entitled: Flammel's Hieroglyphicks, Tab. I-IV Errata, p. [25] Hogart, R. Alchemy

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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 [sic] and lungs, abortion, want of appetite, loss of the use of limbs, cholick, or belly-ach, apostems, thrushes, quinsies, deafness, bubo's, cachexia, stone in the reins, and stone in the bladder: with the preparation of the Præcipiolum, or the universal medicine of Paracelsus. To which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley. All translated out of the best Latin editions, into English; ... Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers. The whole compleated in three books. By William Salmon professor of physick· Living at the Blue-Ball by the Ditchside, near Holborn-Bridge

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1692printed for Tho. Howkins in George-Yard in Lombard-street, and John Harris at the Harrow in the PoultreyEnglish—No ebook

containing the way of curing the more eminent and usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : whereunto is annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna

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1692and J. Harris; for T. Howkins ...; London : Printed by W. Bonny : for T. Howkins ... : and J. Harris; Printed by W. BonnyEnglish—Public

shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books

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1692Printed for T. Howkins ... J. Taylor ... and J. Harris ...English—No ebook

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  • Contributing institution: Getty Research Institute
  • Digitization sponsor: Getty Research Institute
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; gettyalchemy
  • Scanner: scribe1.santamonica.archive.org
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