Medicina instaurata, or: a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of physick. With the insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing medicines ... Whereto is added, a ... discourse as a light to the true preparation of animal and vegetable arcana's. Together with a discovery of the true subject of the philosophick mineral mercury, and that from the authorities of the most famous of philosophers. As also ... the preparation and use of ... mercury, in the dissolution of minerals and metals, for a physical use / ... Also an epistolary discourse upon the whole, by the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. Marchamont Nedham].

  • Bolnest, Edward
Date:
1665
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Credit: Medicina instaurata, or: a brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of physick. With the insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing medicines ... Whereto is added, a ... discourse as a light to the true preparation of animal and vegetable arcana's. Together with a discovery of the true subject of the philosophick mineral mercury, and that from the authorities of the most famous of philosophers. As also ... the preparation and use of ... mercury, in the dissolution of minerals and metals, for a physical use / ... Also an epistolary discourse upon the whole, by the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. Marchamont Nedham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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