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
_Gibar_ is a Metallick medicine.
_Gigantes_ are men exceeding the bounds of Nature.
_Gluta_ is the efficacy of tenacious pitch.
_Gluten_ is any viscous matter in the body, from whence proceed many
obstinate diseases.
_Glutinis tenacitas_ is the Minerall Resine.
_Gnomi_ are called _homunciones_, or rather corporeall spirits, living
under the earth, or else Pygmies of a cubit long.
_Græca Magia_ is a superstitious Art invented by the _Grecians_, by
which they made things appear, which really were not.
_Gravus_ is the stone _Porphyrites_, the use of which is as of a marble
to dissolve things in the cold.
_Grilla_, or _Grillus_, is vitriall dissolved of its owne accord into
water.
_Guarini_ are men living by the influence of the heaven.
_Guma_ is Quicksilver.
_Gumicula_ is Valerian.
_Gutta rosacea_ is a rednesse especially in the face like that tincture
which is in the beginning of a Leprosie.
H.
_Hadid_ is Iron.
_Hal_ is Salt.
_Harmel_ is the seed of wild rue.
_Haro_ is a kind of Ferne.
_Hel_ is Honey.
_Hellebria_ is a kind of black Hellebore bearing red flowers.
_Heliotropium_ is _Paracelsus_ his balme.
_Helismidan_ is a balsamicall Mummie.
_Henricus rubeus_ is the Colcathar of Vitriall.
_Hinicula_, _genicula_, or _gumicula_ is Valerian.
_Homunculus_ in _Paracelsus_ is a man made artificially, the processe
whereof you may see at large in the foregoing treatise the eight page,
and sometimes they are taken for superstitious images.
_Horion_ is the Mercury of Gold.
_Humor vitæ_ is the radicall moisture.
_Hydri_ are juices or fruits.
_Hydromancy_ is an Art taken from the stars of the water, when they
manifest themselves to men, as from unusuall inundations, and the like.
_Hydropiper_ is Arsmart tinged with red specks, or spots.
I.
_Iassa_ is the hearb of the Trinity.
_Icteritia rubea_ is an _Erisipelas_.
_Idea_, is a figure of a thing conceived in the imagination as a
perpetuall being, or a pattern of all things of that nature.
_Idiotæ_ are contemners of true arts, although they are skilfull
professors of the false.
_Iesahach_ is supernaturall.
_Ignis leonis_ is the Element it selfe of fire.
_Ignis Persicus_ is a hot burning ulcer.
_Ignis pruinus adeptus_ is the quintessence of vitriall rectified with
tartar.
_Ilech crudum_ is a composition of the first matter of the three first
principles.
_Ilech magnum_ is an Ascendent or a star of a medicine, which together
is taken with it, in which also it is hid; and as the superiour stars
are in the firmament, so also are the inferiour in man.
_Ilech primum_ is the first Principle.
_Ilech supernaturale_ is a conjunction of the supernaturall, and
firmamentall stars, with the inferiour stars of terrestiall things, and
with wine.
_Ileidus_ is the Elementary aire: but in men it is the spirit which
passeth through all his members.
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