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
_Panna_ is a naturall spot.
_Pars cum parte_ is a mass consisting of equal parts of Gold, and
Silver.
_Pauladadum_ is a kind of _terra sigillata_ growing in _Italy_.
_Pelicanus_ is a circulatory, or circulating vessell.
_Penates_ are spirits of the Element of Fire, called Familiars.
_Pentacula_ are signs, or delineaments engraven with wonderfull and
strange letters, and images, which being hanged about the neck, are
said to be preservatives against evill spirits, and witcheries.
_Percipiolum_ is any medicine that is approved.
_Perdetæ_ are rapes small and yellow.
_Perdomium_ is wine made out of hearbs.
_Periodus_ is the term of life.
_Peucedamum_ is English Angelica.
_Phantasmata_ are spirits of the wood, or the desert, which live in any
obscure place.
_Phiala_ is a viall, or glasse bottle.
_Pionitides_ are naturall enemies which persecute one the other to
death, as the Storke, and Frogs, &c.
_Phenix_ is the quintessence of Fire; also the Philosophers stone.
_Physiognomy_ is an Art whereby mens natures, and conditions are
perceived by their faces.
_Plumbum Philosophorum_ is that which is extracted out of Antimony.
_Porosa_ is S. Johns-wort.
_Præsagium_ is some notable sign of something to come.
_Preservativa_ are medicines preserving bodies from corruption.
_Primales_ called fallacious bodies which are by the stars put before
our eyes.
_Pruinum_ is the first kind of Tartar.
_Pruina_ is _Ignis Persicus_.
_Pulpezia_ is a suddain astonishment or change in a mans body by reason
of the stars.
_Pusta_ is the digestion of corrupt matter.
_Pygmeæ_ are called artificiall men, and sometimes subterraneall
spirits.
_Pyramis_ is a vessell made like a _Pyramis_.
_Pyromancy_ is an art presaging by fire.
Q.
_Qualitas_ is called a complexion, whether hot or cold, dry or moist,
according to the predominancy of any Element.
_Quartatio_, or _Quartura_ is the highest tryall of Gold, and that this
way, _viz._ that nine parts of Silver bee mixed with one part of Gold
in melting by the fire. Then let them both bee dissolved with _Aqua
fortis_: All the Silver is turned into water, and the Gold settles to
the bottome like a dark powder.
_Quintessentia_ is called a certaine spirituall matter extracted
corporeally out of hearbs, plants, and all things that have life, and
the exalting of it to the highest degree of purity, by separating all
impurities.
_Quintum esse cujuslibet Elementi per se solum_, is an animall produced
out of that alone.
R.
_Ragadiæ_ are apostemes of the privities.
_Rana_ is an aposteme under the tongue.
_Realgar_ is the fume of Mineralls being properly taken, but being
metaphorically it is any vitious matter in mans body, of which grow
apostemes, ulcers, or the like.
_Rebis_ is the excrement of the belly.
_Rebisola_ is a secret urine against the jaundise.
_Rebona_ is the same as Mummie.
_Rebus_ is the last matter of things.
_Redue_ is a powder whereby calcined Metalls, and Mineralls are melted.
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