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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    and .made common to all 5 though | truly for its, admirable . Excellency. ,| and vertue in Medicine , it deferves to}! be made publick;. for it’s. a moft noble dnd a divine Medicine , and fuch a one as by which the Prudent and Confcien-| tious Phyfitian may acquire both praife, and glory; yetfeeing it is, asit is y the onely.Pearl 5 or great Arcanum of Al- chymie , it mult. not be proftitured-(vzz.) communicated to. the unworthy... All rhe {ecrets of Alchymie depend upon: it. He therefore that defires it, let him diligent- ly apply himfelf to Chymistry and its {e- cret Operations) &¢..- or I fhall not here {pend time'to, anfwer the objeGions, and cavills of thofe: that will perhaps-tell me., thatthe, Phelofo- pher’s Mercury is not. the common Mercury, nor is it prepared out of.it; thisin fome] i fence .is true 5 anid 1. well know ( and it may. be'better than themfelves) , thar the Philofophers: point, at and, direct; us ( though znigmatically )..to another Mer- cury 5 and alfo, a compound. of Adercurtes...\ iy or Mercuriys duplicate called alfo their Mercury.» But-I as wellknow:that, that : is