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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    t [42] | ‘not to back it the Authority of two great} Lights, moft Eminent, Expert, and Learn- i ed Modern Phyficians, Vaz Helmont, and the moft acute Faéer, from whom, whofo ji defires more fatisfaétion, may perufe their | feveral Tractates, de Febribw, &c. | »# But to return from this Digreffion to the two former Affertions of Nature’s moft willingly, and refolvedly Suffering, or rather throwing, and putting her felf into | preternatural Motions ; Confider the violent difturbance in the Epzleptecal zx- | fultw, or in the Falling-ficknefs, with | the like violent motions, perturbations, and preternatural, and unufual diftur- bances, more or lefs, in all or moft Mala- | dies, Diftempers, and Difeafes whatever. || | If therefore violent, and preternatural, ||| unaccuftomed Motions were alrogether | His deftruétive to nature, why would fhe make | tin fo conftant and certain an irritation. of | them by her Archew, as we daily in moft | Diftempers may perceive, and obferve fhe doth 2 If it be anfwered, it is not Nature, bur the Difeafe that dothit, and is the caufe of ir, and that itis no way pleafing to Nature, but altogether Sra ) ite ,