_Arthoicum_ is red oyle, artificially extracted out of the rootes of Hearbs digested with bread in dung. _Asaphatum_ is an itch bred betwixt the skin, and the flesh, like worms: and if the skinne bee crushed, long threds with black heads come forth. _Ascendentia signa_ are called either the stars of the Firmament of heaven, or the sydereall spirits. _Asphaltum_ is a Bitumen extracted from the mudde of the earth, and water, and is like pitch. _Assala_ is called a Nutmeg. _Assaliæ vermes_ are those wormes which breed in wood, or betwixt two boards, and they are called _Teredones_. _Asthma_ is a disease of the lungs causing difficulty of breathing. _Astrum_ is in this place called the vertue and power got by the preparations of things as the star of Sulphur is its inflaming which is turned into most excellent oyle: so the star of salt is its resolution into water, or oyle, which thereby receives more vertues then it had before. The star of Mercury is its sublimation, by which it acquires a wonderfull power, and vertue, greater, and more subtile then its naturall. _Astrum ex igne_, is a burning Fire of great impression. _Athanor_, or _Athanar_ is a furnace in the spagirical Art, but especially a reverberatory, sometimes of other use as the artificer pleaseth. _Attractiva_ are called magnetick medicaments, which have a power to draw to them such things as are compounded of the like attractives. _Attramentum_ signifies divers things according to the adjective that is put to it: as that which Shoomakers use, is Copperis, such as is red within: that which Writers use, is called inke, sooty, and it is called blacking, also all kinds of Copperis. _Augurista_ is called a superstitious Artist who practiseth his Art in Looking-glasses, Chrystalls, and in Waters, especially in the singing, and flying of birds, that he may presage by them; he also observes other rites for the same cause. _Aurum planatum_ is that which they call Leafe Gold, or malleated Gold. _Aurum potabile_ is liquor of Gold, without any Corrosive, which very few know, yea of those who daily prepare it rather to the destruction, then health of men. _Aurum vitæ_ is precipitated Gold, and reverberated into the highest degree of rednesse, like ground Cinnabar. That is the best which is made, and precipitated with its proper Mercury. _Aurum vivum_ is sometimes taken for Quicksilver. _Austromantia_ is a certain kind of superstition invented, concerning the observation of Winds, as when the stars of the Winds break forth into great vehemency, contrary to their custome, whence men that are more idle then rationall, pronounce a presage of something to come. _Avis Hermetis_ is the Mercury of Philosophers, which ascends, and then descends for nourishment. _Axungia de Mumia_, or _Mumia de Medullis_ is the marrow of Bones. _Azemasor_ is Minnium, or Cinnabar.