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
_Nacta_ is an aposteme of the breast.
_Narcotica_ are medicines causing sleep.
_Nasda_ or _Natta_ is a bunch in the back.
_Neboch_ is an instrument used in Necromancy.
_Nebulgea_ is salt of the moisture of a cloud falling upon stones in
meadowes, and hardened with the heat of the sun.
_Necrolica_ are medicaments expelling death, and preserving life.
_Necromancy_ is an unlawfull art, which did in time of old worke with
the dead, as when the stars were manifested with the dead. And he is
truly called a Necromancer, who can make the dead appeare, and can draw
words and answers from them.
_Nenufareni_, are spirits dwelling in the aire.
_Neutha_, or _Neuta_, is a little skin growing to the eares, or eyes of
infants, and sometimes covering the whole body.
_Nigromancy_ is a wicked, and execrable art, whereby devils, and wicked
spirits suffer themselves to bee commanded by man, and obey them, but
only to their hurt.
_Nitriales_ are all burning things which conduce to calcination.
_Nitrum_ is Salt-petre.
_Nodi_ are hard tumours of the joints.
_Nostoch_ is that which we call a falling star, a kind of gelly or
slime found oftentimes in the summer in fields, and meadowes.
_Nuba_ is a kind of red Manna which falls in _Ireland_.
_Nymphæ_, or _Nymphidicæ_, are spirituall men, or women, or corporeall
spirits dwelling in waters, such a one was _Melusina_.
_Nymphidica_ are metaphorically spirits of dissolving waters in the
spagiricall art.
_Nysadir_ is salt Armoniack.
O.
_Obrizum_ is pure gold calcined by art into a light red colour.
_Ocob_ is salt Armoniack.
_Odorifera_ are medicines, which by their odour, whether good or bad,
expell diseases.
_Oleitas rerum_ is the sulphur in all things.
_Oleum ardens_ is oyle of Tartar corrected to the highest degree.
_Oleum Calcotharinum_ is red oyle of Vitriall.
_Oleum squaminum_ is oyle of Tartar.
_Oleum Vitrioli aurificatum_, is that which is dulcified with gold
artificially.
_Olympicus spiritus_ is a star in man, that makes him to yeeld a shadow
of himself.
_Operimethiolim_ is the spirit of Mineralls.
_Oppilativa_ are medicines which stop fluxes.
_Oppodeltoch_ in _Paracelsus_ is an ointment.
_Opopyron Laudani_ is _Paracelsus_ his medicine to stop feavers.
_Ordoleum_ is a little aposteme like a barley corne.
_Orexis_ is a heat caused by tartarous matter.
_Organopeotica_ (_see Transcriber’s Note_) is an Art finding out
warlike instruments.
_Orizonæternitatis_ is the supercelestiall vertue of things.
_Orizeum_ is Gold.
_Orizeum foliatum_ is Leaf-gold.
_Orizeum præcipitatum_ is Gold brought into a Crocus, by the help of
the Crocus of Mercury.
_Orobo_ is the glasse of Metalls.
_Ossa paraleli_ are a universall medicine in the Gout.
_Ovum Philosophicum_ is a glasse of the form of an egge which
Philosophers use in their operations.
_Ozo_ is Arsenick.
P.
_Pandalitium_, _Paneritium_, or _Passa_, is an aposteme in the ends of
the fingers, called a white flaw.
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