_Azoth_ is Quicksilver extracted out of any body, and it is properly called the Mercury of the body, but in _Paracelsus_ it is the universall medicine of things. B. _Balneum Mariæ_, or _Maris_, as many call it, is a furnace for distillation containing water, in which being warm Chymicall vessells are put for the putrefaction of the matter which they contain, as also for their separation, and for the performing the operations of that kind of moist ascensions. _Balneum roris_ is a furnace, in which the vessells of Distillation are put over the vapour of the water only, that the vapour doe not touch the body: also it is called a vaporous furnace. _Balsamum_ is a substance of bodies preserving things from putrefaction. It is internall, and externall. Internall in man is a certain temperate substance, not bitter, nor sweet, nor soure, not Minerall salt, but the salt of liquor, which preserves the body strongly from putrefaction. Externall is Turpentine, which hath never come to the fire, but is digested. _Balsamum de Mumiis_ is that which is extracted from flesh. _Balsamum Elementorum externum_ is a liquor of externall Mercury, _i.e._ the Mummie of externall elements, one of the three principles, the firmamentall essence of things. _Baul_ is urine. _Baurac_ is any kind of brine. _Berillistica_ is an art of observing visions in those kinds of glasses. _Berillus_ is a Crystalline Looking-glasse superstitiously consecrated by the Augurs. _Bismutum_ is the lightest, whitest, and basest kind of Lead. _Bitumen_ is a certaine kind of slimie mud extracted out of water, and is like to pitch, and is as it were the pitch of the earth. _Bothor_ are wheales, or pustles. _Botin_ is Turpentine. _Brassadella_, or _Brassatella_ is Adders-tongue. _Brunus_ is St. Anthony’s fire. _Bruta_ is an influence of a Celestiall vertue, which by Brutes is manifested to men, as in the Sallendine by the Swallow, in Salt the use of a Glyster by the Storke, and many more of that kind. _Butyrum Saturni_ is that which above is called _Altey_, and it is the sweetnesse of Lead. C.