A philosophical essay: declaring the probable causes, whence stones are produced in the greater world ... Being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes, and cure of the stone in the kidneys, and bladders of men / Written by Dr. Thomas Sherley, Physitian in Ordinary to His Majesty.

  • Thomas Sherley
Date:
1672
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Credit: A philosophical essay: declaring the probable causes, whence stones are produced in the greater world ... Being a prodromus to a medicinal tract concerning the causes, and cure of the stone in the kidneys, and bladders of men / Written by Dr. Thomas Sherley, Physitian in Ordinary to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eft, ut corporibus in Mundum prodtturts , folidséatem coagulando preftet; Sal enim corpus eff, Mercurius Spiritus, Sulphur anna se hat iss el 7s firs Salt that Bodies * are produced tn th e World; tt ¢ aufeth Co- ‘agulatton, and Solidity: for Salt ts the Body Mercury the Spirit, and Sulpbur €¢ the Soul, This Doctrine; though much more rational than the { former, and {eeming to be confirmed by experiment, and to be verified by the account our fenfes give us of it, cannot yet gain my full alient to it, fofar as to allow Salt tobe the Pri- mary, either M hatter, OF E ficient of So- lidity in bodies, orth 1ecaufe from whence {tones ate. pro duced. For it-is obfere vable, chat Salts are Ges into Li- quo rs, 1 and do feem to lofe their {oli- dity ] cit! ree by | bain Ig MIxe . with water, ot expofed tothe A Air, in which many of them r in pee deliguiam. Fut, to let this pals; what Salr can be fuppofed to be communicated to Quick-filver, when it is coagulated by rhe fumes of melted Lead, by which it becomes fo folid, that it may be cat i tuto Moulds, and Images formed of its and when cold, is not only hard, Bae a(n Breil Itke Regulus of Antimony? NVhat accefs of Salt
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