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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    E38] reat Miracles there, becaufe of their Un- | Felicf 5 at Cynthasauvem vellit, neque omnta | in vulgus ratio fuadet, | And returning to the power of Nature, and to confirm it by fome familiar. exam- ple ; confider, as 1 faid before; the hot | and cold Fir; (as we call them) in Aguesy } 1 &c. Nature finding her powet begin to } 1h decay by fome Obftructing matter or other in her paflages of Circulation, Peram- bulation,or Progrefs, calls.in all her Forces — tothe Centre ; Her forces (the Spirits ) being called, and with-drawn from their | feveral ftations, or parts of the Body, (of | which they are the Lifeand only Prefer- | vers) thofe Outward parts are ona fud~ dain over-taken with a Chilnefs, ( or, as we callit, a cold Ague fit’) the true effect of Nature’s calling in her Forces, there to Concentrate and Multer them up toge- ther, that by her fuddain Sally, or Return with thofe her united Forces; and utmoft Strength, fhe may* expel and drive out (either in part, or wholly ) her Incroach- }) ing and Death-threathing oppofite 5 ‘the | Body is now again by this means, (wz. ) Nature’s Return with her united Strength to