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
_Thamatica_ (_see Transcriber’s Note_) is an art of inventing engines
which are moved by aire, and water.
_Thaphneus_ is a clean purified medicine.
_Thisma_ is minerall veins.
_Tinkar_ is Borax.
_Tinctura_ is that which tingeth any body with its colour.
_Toruscula_ is a drop.
_Tracksat_ is a metall, as yet in its mine.
_Trarames_ are actions of spirits not seen, but heard.
_Trifertes_ are called spirits dwelling in the fire.
_Trigonum_ is a fourefold transmutation of the spirits of the stars
according to the number of the four Elements.
_Tronus_, or _Tronossa_ is called the celestiall dew made of the air,
or the sweetest kind of Manna.
_Truphat_ is an occult vertue of Mineralls, by which they act toward
that end for which they were ordaind.
_Turba magna_ is an innumerable multitude of the celestiall stars, and
is a presage made by any of them.
_Turbith minerale_ is Mercury precipitated into a sweetnesse without
any corrosive.
V.
_Vegetabilia_ are things that grow by having a root fixt in the earth,
and having stock, branches in the aire, as hearbes, plants, and trees,
&c.
_Veneris gradus_ is a mild and sweet nature.
_Verto_ is the fourth part of a pound.
_Viltrum philosophorum_ is an Alembick, but being taken absolutely is a
strainer.
_Vinum correctum_ is the Alcool of Wine.
_Vinum essatum_ is Wine impregnated with the vertues of hearbs or any
thing else.
_Viriditas salis_ is the green oyle of salt.
_Virgulta fossorum_ are certain rods which Miners use to discover mines
withall.
_Viscaleus_ is _Misleto_.
_Viscus_ is properly pitch boiled out of the tender tops of trees.
_Viscus secundæ generationis_ is bloud dropping from salts.
_Visio_ is a supernatural apparition of spirits after a manner seen by
men.
_Vitriolatum_ is Vitriall which is liquid, and never can be coagulated.
_Vitriolum Novum_ is white Vitriall.
_Vlcus æstiomenum_ is a cancerous aposteme that feeds upon the place.
_Vmbragines_ are Pigmies.
_Vmbratiles_ are astrall bodies.
_Vndæ_, or _Vndenæ_ are aiery, and earthy spirits.
_Vndosa_ are called the excrements of any Animalls.
_Vnitas Trithemii_ is the reduction of the number of Three into a
unity by casting away the number of Two, and it is supernaturall, and
spagiricall.
_Vniones_ are pretious pearls, or gemmes.
_Volans_, or _Vnquasi_ is Quicksilver.
_Volatile_ is in generall any light matter which is carryed upward.
_Vrina vini_ is Vineger, and sometimes it is used for the urine of a
man that alwaies drinks wine.
_Vulcanii_, or _Vulcanici_ are such as alwaies worke about the fire.
_Vulcanus_ is fire.
_Vzifur_ is Cinnabar.
W.
_Warnus_ is the Vineger of Philosophers.
_Wismodt_ is Tin that is foule and immalleable, and cannot be wrought
upon.
X.
_Xenectum_ is any outward medicine hanged about the body as a
preservative against the Plague.
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