A New Light of Alchymie: Taken out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience. Etc.Sedziwój, Michal
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A New Light of Alchymie: Taken out of the Fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience. Etc.
Sedziwój, Michal
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Sulfur
_Esthionemus_ is a most corrupt imposteme feeding upon the whole
member, as a Wolfe.
_Evestrum_ is a propheticall spirit, which presageth by signs, or
something going before.
_Exaltatio_ is the subtilizing of any thing.
_Excrementa_ are all superfluous things ejected by Nature.
_Exitura_ is any aposteme which casts out matter.
_Exorcista_ is a superstitious artist which calls up spirits.
_Extractum_ is that which is extracted out of corporeall concretion,
the grossenesse being left behind.
_Ezezich_ is Salt.
F.
_Faba_ is the third part of a scruple.
_Fabiola_ is the flower of Beans.
_Fædula_ is a kind of mushrome.
_Fel Draconis_ is Quicksilver out of Tin.
_Fel vitri_ is the spume of glasse.
_Fermentum_ is a fixt matter, which reduceth a matter to its own
nature, and fixednesse.
_Ficus cutis_ is a wart growing to the skinne upon Horses legs, and it
is a medicine to help diseases of the matrix.
_Fida_ is Silver, and sometimes Gold.
_Fido_ is called Quicksilver, and sometimes Gold.
_Filius unius Diei_ is the Philosophers stone.
_Filtratio_ is straining a thing through a woollen cloth, or paper, &c.
_Filum arsenicale_ is the Philosophers stone.
_Fimus equinus_ is a digestion made any way, either by Horse-dung, or
warm ashes, or water.
_Fixatio_ is making that which flies in the fire to endure the fire.
_Flagæ_ are spirits which know the occult secrets of men.
_Flos cheiri_ is the essence of Gold.
_Flos sectarum Croe_ is the flower of Nutmeg, or as some will, of
Saffron.
_Folia daure_ are leaves of Gold.
_Fons philosophorum_ is _Balneum Maris_.
_Formæ rerum_ are called the influences of celestiall bodies, which
inferiour bodies receive from them, or they are the vertues of any
thing.
_Formicæ_ are little impostemes like warts.
_Fugile_ is an aposteme in the eares.
_Fuligo Metallorum_ is sometimes called Arsenicke, and sometimes it is
taken for Mercury.
_Fulmen_ is purified Silver.
_Fumigatio_ is calcining any thing with a sharp corroding fume.
_Fusio_ is melting, or making any thing flow in the fire.
G.
_Gamahei_ are images impressed by a supercelestiall influence.
_Gamathei_ are stones in which celestiall vertues, and supernaturall
constellations are impressed, being marked with wonderfull characters,
and images.
_Gamonynum_ is that one only Anatomie of all things.
_Glacies dura_ is Crystall.
_Gladialis_ is an Art whereby according to the course of the firmament
of the stars swords are so forged, that anvills cannot resist them,
whence it otherwise called _incusma_.
_Gelion_ is a Leafe.
_Geluta_ is the hearb called Chameleon.
_Gemma tartarea_ is called the stone that is generated of diaphanous,
and perspicuous tartar.
_Genula_ is a plant degenerating by transplanting of a parsnip.
_Geomancy_ is the most known Art of the earth, but in this place it is
taken for the stars of the earth, manifesting themselves to men, so
that thereby they may take some ground for presaging.
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