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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    The Virtues and Ufe, &c. | 4 Oye moft efficacious (and yet moft Ff | Ht fafe) Medicine,: as prepared, if 9 | taken in its ufually limited Dofe, doth not ff at all produce any Purgative, Emetick, or § | Cathartick operation, that is, it purgeth 9 ‘| noteither by Stool, or Vomit: that being } ‘I alittle exceeded, it ( haply ) manifeltsits § force, in fome by Urine, in others (if ] il) they continue in their Beds, as they may if j-} that can) by a gentle breathing Sweat; (I] (for it keeps not one conftant progrefs |] l,) and courfe of operation inall Ages, Di- @ {tempers, and Confticutions, but according | to neceffirty and Nature’s beft advantage, if} fets it felf to work. ). In other fome again fo} by amore than ordinary or ufual Spicting, an} Cyet not as by a Mercurial Salivation, | from which as dangerous .as common pra- hy} Gice and operation it is altogether free ) am} yet in none of thofe fo much. as to caufe wt} any difturbance or weakning tothe Body, | the proportion of the Dofe being yet taifed, andthe Stomach ( & coqum, co- quina &@ culina corporis, both Cook and am © Kitchin