cetum Philosophorum is a Mercuriall
water, or otherwise is called
Virgins milke, wherein they say
Metalls are dissolved.
Acetum radicale is Vineger distilled
out of its owne roote,
and matrix, and is called the
Dissolving Water.
Adamita is a certain kind of Tartar.
Adech is our interiour, and invisible man, which
represents the formes of all things in our mind, which
afterward our outward man doth frame, and imitate
with its own hands; both of them work according to
their nature.
Aerdadi are corporeall spirits living in the air.
Æs doth not alwaies signifie Copper, but sometimes
Gold, or Silver, or any other Metall that is
pure, and generated by it self, without the mixtion of
any other Metall, or Stone; out of some such kind of
Metall, they formerly made and coined money.
Æstphara is the burning of flesh, or the substance of
the body into ashes.
Æthna is called Subterranean fire, invisible, and sulphureous,
which burnes stones into coales, like
Jeat in the mountains, which are full of Resine, and
Bitumen.
Æthnici are called fiery spirits, or spirituall men
burning in the fire, which appear in divers forms, and
shapes, as fiery flames, firebrands, round balls of
coals, and that especially in Sulphur mountains.
Alandahal, or Alhandal is Coloquintida.
Alcaest, or Altaest, is said to be prepared Mercury,
some will have it to bee Tartar, but the mind of the
Authour is more easily understood by the description
of the preparation of it.
Alcali is called all manner of Salt, which is extracted
out of ashes, or calx of any matter by boiling in
lie.
Alchymia is the separation of that which is impure
from a purer substance.
Alcofol, or (as some will have it Alcosol) is stibium,
or Antimony.
Alcol, Alcool, or Alcohol is a most subtil powder of
any thing.
Alcool vini is the spirit of Wine rectified.
Alcubrith, or Alcur, or Alazar is the same that Sulphur
is.
Alembrot purified is salt of Tartar, and the Magistery
of it.
Alembroth is salt of Mercury, or salt of Philosophers.
Almizadir is Verdegrease.
Altey plumbi is the sweet matter of Lead.
Alusar is Manna.
Amalgama is the making of Gold, Silver, or any
other Metall into a past with Quicksilver.
Amianthus is a stone like to Alumen plumosum in
nature, and condition; it is not burnt in the fire, wherefore
it is also called the Salamander.
Amidum, or Amilum is the whitest flowre made into
bread in the Sun.
Amnis alcalisatus is water passing through the chalk
of the earth, out of which Alcali is taken.
Amygdale, with Chirurgions is called the superfluous
flesh which growes at the roote of the
tongue.
Anachmus is an incorporeall spirit.
Anathron, or Anachthron is a kind of Salt growing
upon rocks like white, and stony mosse, some call it
salt nitre. The ancients falsly thought it to bee the
gall of glasse, seeing it is rather the gall of
stones.
Anatomia Essata is the mother of diseases.
Anatrum is glasse melted into divers colours, which
they call smaltum, or terra Sarasenica.
Andena is Steel brought from the orientall countries,
which melts in the fire like other Metall, and is
cast into severall forms.
Anthos in Vegetables signifies Rosemary flowers,
and in Metalls it signifies the Elixir or quintessence
of Gold.
Anticar is Borax.
Anatris, or Antaris is Mercury.
Aniada are the fruits, and vertues of paradise, and
heaven, also the sacraments of Christians, in naturall
Philosophy it signifies the Astrall vertues, and celestiall,
as they conduce by their influence unto long
life.
Aniaday signifies an eternall spring, a new world to
come, or paradise.
Aniadum is a celestiall body planted in us Christians
by the Holy-ghost, by the holy sacraments, or it
is the spirituall man regenerated in us.
Aniadus is the efficacy of things.
Anima is our Mercury.
Anima Saturni is the sweetnesse of Lead.
Annora is the ashes of Egs, or Quick-lime.
Annus Aniadin is a long life.
Annus Platonicus is a common moneth, or an
age.
Anodus is that which is separated from the nutriment
by the kidnies.
Anodyna are Medicines procuring sleep.
Anontagius is the Philosophers stone.
Anotasier, Aliocab or Alemzadar is Salt Armoniack.
Antera is a Medicine extracted out of hyacinths,
also that yellow which growes in the middle of Lillies,
and the like.
Anterit is Mercury.
Anthonor, or Athonar is a furnace.
Aphorismus is a generall rule in Physick, taken for
granted.
Aqua celestina is Mercuriall water.
Aqua Celestis is rectified Wine, being in some sort
made like to the heaven for subtilty, and purenesse.
Aqua corrodens is Vineger, and all Corrosive Liquor.
Aqua fecum vini, is that which is made of the
ashes of the lees of Wine, dissolved upon a marble like
oyle of Tartar.
Aqua lubricata is made of mucilaginous things, as
Sugar, Juleps, and the like.
Aqua permanens is that which is made of two most
perfect Metalline bodies by a Philosophicall solution.
Aqua Saturnia is that which retains in it selfe the
nature of the three Principles, as are Bath-waters,
which are naturally medicinable.
Aqua solvens is distilled Vineger.
Aquaster is a vision representing something to
our eyes, sometimes which truly is not, but only in
appearance.
Aquila is the Queen of birds, and it is used for
salt Armoniack by reason of its lightnesse in sublimation.
But Paracelsus will have it in many places
to be taken for Mercury precipitated with gold.
Aquila Philosophorum is the Mercury of Metalls
i.e. Metall reduced into its first matter.
Arbor Maris is Corall, which grows like a shrub
in the sea.
Arcanum in generall as it signifies any thing that is
hid, so in Paracelsus it signifies any secret incorporeall
vertue in naturall things, partaking of a perpetuall,
and immortal life, derived upon it from heaven, which
also may bee multiplyed by the Spagiricall art above
its former condition.
Archaltes, is in Paracelsus the foundation of the
earth, or a pillar, which seems not to be upheld by its
fellows, but as it were by a wonderfull providence of
God.
Archeius is the highest, exalted, and invisible spirit,
which is separated from bodies, is exalted, and
ascends, the universall occult nature, operator, and
Physitian in all things. So Archiatrus is the supream
Physitian of Nature, which distributes to every thing
and every member their peculiar Archeius occultly
by Ares. Also Archeius is the first in Nature, the
most secret vertue, producing all things out of
Iliaste, being supported by a divine power. Ares is the
dispenser of Nature hid in all the three principles,
whence every thing hath its being, and which disposeth
to all things in a particular form, shape, and substance,
that it may put on its own proper specifical nature,
& not anothers. But you must note, the difference
betwixt these 3 in nature, to speak after the manner of
schools. Iliastes is the substance of the highest genus,
or kind consisting in the first universall matter of all
things, which it doth first dispose into three kinds, viz.
into Sulphur, Mercury, and salt. The Archeius is the
first dispenser of Nature, and then it produceth all
things into its next genera or kinds. Then comes Ares
another dispenser of Nature, which produceth
from kinds, or genera, forms, and species into individualls.
Ardentia are such things which having received
no food, are by their owne nature subject to burnings,
as Amber, Turpentine, Jeat, and such
like.
Aridura is the totall consumption of the body, and
parts thereof.
Arles crudum is drops falling in the moneth of
Iune, like May dew.
Aromata, are all such things, which yeeld a sweet,
and gratefull smell.
Aroph is Mandrake.
Arsaneck is sublimed Arsenick.
Arsenicum is the flashing of Metalls, or the salt of
them, or of Saturne, which in some places is called
Artanek, or Artanech.
Artetiscus is he that wants any member.
Arthoicum is red oyle, artificially extracted
out of the rootes of Hearbs digested with bread in
dung.
Asaphatum is an itch bred betwixt the skin, and the
flesh, like worms: and if the skinne bee crushed, long
threds with black heads come forth.
Ascendentia signa are called either the stars of
the Firmament of heaven, or the sydereall spirits.
Asphaltum is a Bitumen extracted from the
mudde of the earth, and water, and is like
pitch.
Assala is called a Nutmeg.
Assaliæ vermes are those wormes which breed in
wood, or betwixt two boards, and they are called Teredones.
Asthma is a disease of the lungs causing difficulty
of breathing.
Astrum is in this place called the vertue and power
got by the preparations of things as the star of Sulphur
is its inflaming which is turned into most excellent
oyle: so the star of salt is its resolution into water,
or oyle, which thereby receives more vertues then it
had before. The star of Mercury is its sublimation,
by which it acquires a wonderfull power, and
vertue, greater, and more subtile then its naturall.
Astrum ex igne, is a burning Fire of great impression.
Athanor, or Athanar is a furnace in the spagirical
Art, but especially a reverberatory, sometimes of
other use as the artificer pleaseth.
Attractiva are called magnetick medicaments,
which have a power to draw to them such things as
are compounded of the like attractives.
Attramentum signifies divers things according to
the adjective that is put to it: as that which Shoomakers
use, is Copperis, such as is red within:
that which Writers use, is called inke, sooty,
and it is called blacking, also all kinds of Copperis.
Augurista is called a superstitious Artist who
practiseth his Art in Looking-glasses, Chrystalls, and
in Waters, especially in the singing, and flying of
birds, that he may presage by them; he also observes
other rites for the same cause.
Aurum planatum is that which they call Leafe
Gold, or malleated Gold.
Aurum potabile is liquor of Gold, without any
Corrosive, which very few know, yea of those who
daily prepare it rather to the destruction, then health
of men.
Aurum vitæ is precipitated Gold, and reverberated
into the highest degree of rednesse, like ground Cinnabar.
That is the best which is made, and precipitated
with its proper Mercury.
Aurum vivum is sometimes taken for Quicksilver.
Austromantia is a certain kind of superstition invented,
concerning the observation of Winds, as when
the stars of the Winds break forth into great vehemency,
contrary to their custome, whence men that
are more idle then rationall, pronounce a presage of
something to come.
Avis Hermetis is the Mercury of Philosophers,
which ascends, and then descends for nourishment.
Axungia de Mumia, or Mumia de Medullis is the
marrow of Bones.
Azemasor is Minnium, or Cinnabar.
Azoth is Quicksilver extracted out of any body,
and it is properly called the Mercury of the body,
but in Paracelsus it is the universall medicine of
things.
alneum Mariæ, or Maris, as many call it, is a
furnace for distillation containing water, in
which being warm Chymicall vessells are
put for the putrefaction of the matter
which they contain, as also for their separation, and
for the performing the operations of that kind of
moist ascensions.
Balneum roris is a furnace, in which the vessells of
Distillation are put over the vapour of the water only,
that the vapour doe not touch the body: also it is called
a vaporous furnace.
Balsamum is a substance of bodies preserving things
from putrefaction. It is internall, and externall. Internall
in man is a certain temperate substance, not bitter,
nor sweet, nor soure, not Minerall salt, but the
salt of liquor, which preserves the body strongly from
putrefaction. Externall is Turpentine, which hath never
come to the fire, but is digested.
Balsamum de Mumiis is that which is extracted
from flesh.
Balsamum Elementorum externum is a liquor of externall
Mercury, i.e. the Mummie of externall elements,
one of the three principles, the firmamentall
essence of things.
Baul is urine.
Baurac is any kind of brine.
Berillistica is an art of observing visions in those
kinds of glasses.
Berillus is a Crystalline Looking-glasse superstitiously
consecrated by the Augurs.
Bismutum is the lightest, whitest, and basest kind of
Lead.
Bitumen is a certaine kind of slimie mud extracted
out of water, and is like to pitch, and is as it were the
pitch of the earth.
Bothor are wheales, or pustles.
Botin is Turpentine.
Brassadella, or Brassatella is Adders-tongue.
Brunus is St. Anthony’s fire.
Bruta is an influence of a Celestiall vertue, which
by Brutes is manifested to men, as in the Sallendine
by the Swallow, in Salt the use of a
Glyster by the Storke, and many more of that
kind.
Butyrum Saturni is that which above is called Altey,
and it is the sweetnesse of Lead.
abela, or Cabalia is a most secret science,
which is said to be delivered by divine inspiration,
together with the law of Moses,
the Hebrew Rabbies asserting the same. The
Persians were most diligent seekers of this Art, being
also professors of the same, as appears by their calling
of their wise men. They call their Priests wise
men, and most skilfull of all secrets, such as were
those three that came to Christ out of the East to
worship him, and not Kings, as the ignorant vulgar
think them to be. It was not set down in writing, but
delivered by word of mouth. Now after a while superstitious
men, a kind of apes, began to spatter it
with their pen, so that at last it is degenerated into
monstrous superstition; by which means also Magick,
which is the true wisdome that is received by divine
inspiration, is accounted in these times Necromancy,
and Nigromancy, so that it is an offence to be a wise
man, and hee that professeth it openly shall cast himselfe
into danger. But to teach the foolishnesse of Infidels
publickly is commendable, and a gift of singular
wisdome, and no man is judged wise, but hee that
is the greatest foole.
Caballi, or Cabales are ghosts, and Astrall stars of
men that dyed before their time.
Calcedonium tartarum is an offensive matter in mans
body, which comes by reason of the defect of the
expulsive faculty in not expelling what is separated.
Cafa is Champhir.
Calcanthum is Vitriall.
Calcinatum majus is called all that which is made
sweet by the Spagiricall art, which of its own nature
was not so, as the sweetnesse of Mercury, of Lead,
of Salt or the like, which also is called their soul, and
doth quickly consolidate any wound.
Calcinatum minus is all that which is natural sweet,
and is very healing, as Sugar, Manna, Honey of the
Wood, Nostock and the like.
Calcitis is a stone out of which brasse is boiled.
Caleruth is a signe of a desire to the first perpetuum,
as when any thing desires to return into its
first matter from whence it had its originall.
Callena is a kind of Saltpetre.
Calliette are yellow mushromes upon Juniper
trees.
Calx Iovis is spirit of Tin.
Calx lignorum is the ashes of Wood.
Calx Luna is the Azure flower of Silver.
Calx Martis is Crocus of Steel or Iron.
Calx Mercurii is precipitated Mercury.
Calx Solis is calcined Gold.
Calx peregrinorum is Tartar.
Calx permanens or fixa, is an incombustible matter.
Calx Saturni is Minium.
Calx Veneris is Verdegrease.
Cambuca is an aposteme, or ulcer in the groin.
Caput corvi is Antimony.
Caput mortuum is the feces remaining after distillation,
and sublimation.
Carbones cœli are the stars.
Carbunculus is an aposteme, or pestilent ulcer.
Cardonium is a medicinable Wine made of Hearbs.
Carena is the twentyeth part of a drop.
Caseus præparatus is the viscous residency remaining
in the bottome of the milke that runnes out of the
cheese.
Cassatum is weak, and dead bloud in the veins obstructing
the motion of the good blood.
Cathimia is the spume of Silver.
Cauda vulpis rubicundi is Minium of Lead.
Cautela in Spagiricall art is a certaine kind of industry
gotten by a habit, whereby the professors of
the art doe more easily undergoe their labors, and
perfect their operations.
Cauterium is a chirurgicall instrument, which opens
the skin with burning; also it is a medicine that effects
the same, but without pain.
Cedurini are dull wits.
Cementum is a dry Corrosion, when any Metalline
body is calcined with salts, or such like drying
things.
Cenigdam, or Ceningotam is a Chirurgicall instrument
wherewith the Cranium is opened in fits of
the Epilepsie.
Ceniotemium is Mercury prepared for the Venereal
disease.
Cerviculæ is the spirit made out of the bone which
is in the heart of a Hart.
Chaomancy is an art of presaging by the aire.
Chaos, besides the confused, and unshaped matter
of all things, is in Paracelsus taken for the Aire; it is
also taken for Illiaste, or Illiastro.
Character veneris is love, which is in stead of a
shield in keeping off danger.
Cheiri in Paracelsus if it be put absolutely without
any adjection, and if it be spoken of Mineralls, it
signifies Quicksilver, if of Vegetables, Vegetable
flowers. But when it is found with an adjection after
this manner, flos Cheiri, it signifies the white Elixir
made of silver, as Flos Anthos signifies the red Elixir.
Cherio is the occult accidentall vertue of the externall
Elements, and not the qualities of heat, and cold,
and the like.
Cherionium is that in which Nature cannot be altered,
as Crystal, which is so hardened by nature, that it
cannot bee melted as that which is made by Art.
Cherubin is a celestiall vertue, and influence, domination,
and power above all dominations, and
powers, proceeding from God, and descending upon
the earth, and upon all men. Of this divine glory
Paracelsus speaks largely in the expositions of the
Psalms of David.
Cherva is Cataputia, i.e. the Hearb Spurge.
Chifir Minerale is of some interpreted Gold, but
I judg it by what goes before to bee the Sulphur of
any Metall.
Chiromancy according to Paracelsus doth not
treat of the lineaments of the hands only, but also of
the whole body, and not only of men, but all naturall
things besides.
Chybur, or Cibur is Sulphur.
Chymia is the art of Separating pure from impure,
and of making essences.
Chrysocolla is a kind of green earth like Verdegrease.
Chrysos is Gold.
Chymus is Feces.
Cineritium is Ciment of Gold, or Silver, which
some call Regale.
Cinificatum is the same as Calcinatum, i.e. burnt to
ashes.
Cist, or Kist, is the quantity of two Gallons of
Wine.
Citrinula is a blistering Hearb called Crow-foot.
Citrinulum is a transparent salt, made out of calcined
vitriall.
Citrinulus is pale Crystall.
Claretta is the white of Egs.
Clissus is the occult vertue of things returning
from whence they came, as the vertue of an hearb into
the root in Autumne.
Coagulatio is the making of a thin thing thick.
Cœli planetarum are the proper orbs, and their
spheres.
Cœlum Philosophorum is any quintessence, or
universall medicine, especially the Philosophers
stone.
Cœlum Spagiricum is the upper part of a Philosophicall
vessell.
Cohobatio is the often drawing off a liquor from
its body, being oft put upon it.
Cohopb, or Cohop is the same as Cohobation.
Cohos is whatsoever the skin contains in the whole
body.
Colcothar is calcined Vitriall, or the caput Mortuum
of oyle of vitriall.
Coleritium is a Liquor compounded of the corrosive
materialls of Metalls.
Colica is Tartar resolved in the bowells, or a fixt
disease in the Colon gut.
Collatenna is an hearb called Lyons-foot, or a
certain stiptick medicine.
Colliquation is melting, as Metalls are melted.
Cometz is half a drop.
Complexio is the nature of any part, or the quality
of heat, and cold, and the like.
Compositum put absolutely is a body not separated.
Confirmamentum is the body of a star in man, or an
Astrall body.
Confortativa, or Confortantia are medicines which
comfort the heart, and strengthen Nature.
Congelativa are medicines which stop any flux.
Congluten is that, which by putrefaction is turned
into a viscous matter.
Conservativa are medicaments which preserve
Nature from putrefaction, being such things as are
full of Astrall vertue.
Consolidativa are externall medicines which Chirurgions
use in healing, and drying wounds, and
ulcers.
Constellatio is the impression of superiour stars, or
their vertues upon inferiour bodies.
Constrictiva are stiptick medicaments which Chirurgions
use.
Contorsio is a torment of the bowells.
Contractio is a weaknesse of the members, and
drawing of them together.
Coostrum is the middle part of the Diaphragma.
Cor amongst Metalls is called Gold.
Corbatum is Copper.
Cornu cervi is amongst the Chymists the nose of a
still, amongst Paracelsus a vulnerary hearb.
Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum are Astrall vertues in
their matter.
Corpora supercœlestia are such bodies that are not
known by sense, but by reason.
Corpus is the subject in which the vertues of things
lie hid.
Corpus invisibile is the soul, which is corporeall in
respect of its sustentation, and invisible by reason
of its spirituality.
Corrosiva are medicines that Chirurgions use to
eat off superfluous flesh.
Cortex Maris is the Vineger of Philosophers.
Coruscus is mouse-eare.
Cotoronium is a Liquor.
Cruor salis is salt separated from the first salt by
fault of the second digestion.
Cucurbita is a vessell like a gourd.
Cycima is Litharge.
Cydar is Iupiter.
Cyphantum is a distillatory vessell, or the Art it
selfe.
ardo is a successive generation by propagation.
Daura is Hellebor.
Deliquium is a cold descension, when coagulated
bodies are dissolved into a liquor in any cold place.
Demotinus lapsus is suddain death.
Derses is an occult vapour of the earth, by reason
of which all kind of Wood grows, and increaseth.
Descensorium is a Chymicall furnace in which the
liquor falls downward from the grosse matter.
Diaceltatesson is a speciall remedy against feavers.
Diameter Spagiricus is a temperament.
Diapensia is Alchamilla, i.e. Ladies mantle.
Diaphanum is that which is transparent.
Diaphoreticum is a sweating medicine.
Diasatyrion is a confection provoking lust.
Diatessadelton is precipitated Mercury.
Dienez are spirits that dwell amongst hard stones.
Digestio is a Chymicall operation, alluding to
the digestion of a Mans stomach, in which, and by
which the matter is decocted into a separation of pure
from impure.
Diota is a circulating vessell.
Discus solis is Quicksilver made out of Gold.
Divertalium, or Divertellum is a generation made
by Elements.
Divinatio is prophecying, or foretelling.
Dracunculus is Brassatella, i.e. Adders tongue.
Dubelech is the cavity of an imposteme.
Duelech is a kind of Tartar in Mans body, or the
stone in the bladder, or any other part which is spongious,
and dangerous.
Duenech is Antimony.
Dulcedo Saturni, is Altey, or Ceruse.
Durdales are corporeall spirits inhabiting trees.
delphus is any one that prognosticates by
the Nature of the Elements.
Edir is steel or Iron.
Electrum is sometimes taken for Amber,
but in Paracelsus it is a mixture of a compound metall
made by melting all the seven planets into one
body.
Elementum in Paracelsus is the corruptible, and
transient essence of the world, and of all things, which
are subject to change.
Elephas is Aqua fortis.
Elevation is making a thing subtile.
Elixir is properly a ferment, the least part of which
turnes the whole masse of any thing into its owne
kind: also it is the essence of any thing.
Emunctorium is the place of expulsion of any excrement.
Enochdianum is that which hath long life.
Entali is flaked Allum, and sometimes it is made
spagirically of salt gemme.
Enur is an occult vapour of the water, by which
stones are bred.
Erodinium is the sign of any thing to come.
Escara, or Estphara is black and dead flesh caused
by a caustick, and is commonly called the Escar.
Essaræ are Wheales.
Essatum essentiale, is the essentiall, and power that
is in Vegetables, and Mineralls.
Essatum vinum is rectified spirit of Wine.
Essentia quinta according to Paracelsus his definition,
is a certain matter extracted from things purified
from all manner of impurity, and corruption, whereby
it is made incorruptible.
Essila is a tincture made by the heat of the sun in
the face, or any other part of the body.
Essodinum is a certain presage of things to come by
their marks.
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.
aba 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.
amahei 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.
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.
adid 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.
assa 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.
Iliaster, or Iliastes, or Iliadum, is the first matter
of all things, consisting of Sulphur, Mercury, and
Salt; and it is fourefold according to the number of
the Elements. The first is the chaos of the Earth,
the second is the chaos of the Water, the third is the
chaos of the Aire, the fourth the chaos of the Fire.
Also there are four Iliastri of men respecting long
life.
Iliaster in generall is called the occult vertue of
Nature, by which all things are increased, nourished,
multiplyed, and flourish; of which you shall read more
at large in the book of Paracelsus concerning the generations
of Meteors.
Iliaster primus is the tearm of life, or the life it selfe,
or the balsome of life in man.
Iliaster secundus is the term of the balsome, and
the life which we have by Elements, and things elementated.
Iliaster tertius the term of the balsome, or life
which we have by the quintessence of things.
Iliaster magnus, or quartus is of the mind, or soule
caught up into another world, as Enoch, and Eliah
were.
Imaginatio is a star in man, a celestiall and supercelestiall
body.
Imagines are Metallick figures, or effigies, in which
the celestiall powers operate.
Impressiones are fruits as of stars in inferior things.
Impurum alcali, is spume which is taken from it in
purging of it.
Inanimati are Pigmies.
Inclinatio is a power of Nature which is manifested
in man as he is prone to this or that thing.
Incarnativa are Chirurgeons medicaments breeding
flesh and skinne in the wounds or ulcers.
Incubus is a nocturnall spirit deceiving Women in
their sleep, as if they coupled with them.
Influentia is the acting of superiour bodies upon
inferiours.
Innaturalia are supernaturall bodies.
Ios is poison.
Iumnizum is Leaven, or Ferment.
Iupiter is Tin.
achimia, or Kahimia is the unripe Mine of
any Metall, as it is in its first being.
Kald is Vineger.
Kali is Sope ashes.
Kamir is Ferment.
Kaprili is Sulphur.
Karena is the twentyeth part of a drop.
Karlina is wild dill.
Kibrith is Sulphur.
Kimit elevatum is white Cinnabar sublimed.
Kist, or Cist, is half a gallon, or four pints.
Kobalt, or Cobaltum, or Cobletum, is a metallick matter
blacker then Lead, or Iron, without a Metallick
splendor, yet will be melted, and malleated.
Kymenna is a buble.
Kyram is Snow.
abor Sophiæ is Paradise, or another world.
Lac Virginis is Mercuriall water.
Lapis is taken for any fixt thing.
Lapis Philosophorum is the highest vertue
of all terrene things, giving tincture.
Lapsus Demotinus is a suddaine death, more dangerous
then an Apoplexy.
Laterium are capitall lees which Sope-boilers use,
of which Chirurgions make their causticke called Lapis
infernalis.
Lato is copper tinged with lapis calaminaris into a
golden colour.
Laudanum is a compound medicine made of Gold,
Corall, Pearle, &c. by Paracelsus.
Laudina is Angelica.
Laxa Chimolea is salt growing to stones.
Laxativa are medicines working upwards, and
downwards.
Leffa is called the predestination of hearbs.
Leffas is an occult boiling vapour of the earth, by
which hearbs and plants grow.
Lemures are spirits of the Element of Aire, which
Heathen think to bee ghosts of men departed.
Lephante, or Lephantes is the first kind of Tartar,
or Bole, holding the midle betwixt stones, & clay.
Lethargyrium in Paracelsus is the spume of Mercury,
or of Silver, or of Lead, which is separated in
their purifying, and purging.
Lethargius is the finder of Mines.
Limbus in Paracelsus is the great and universall
world, the seed, and first matter of man.
Liquidum de resoluto, is that which is liquid of its
own nature.
Liquor is many times taken for oyle, when the
name of the thing of which it is a Liquor, is put to it.
Liquor Aquilegius is destilled Wine.
Liquor essentialis is that humour which is turned
into flesh, and bloud.
Liquor herbarum is made of hearbs pounded and
pressed, and digested.
Liquor Mercurii is the balsome of things, in which
the vertue of curing or healing consists.
Liquor Mumiæ is the fat of a Man.
Liquor Mumiæ de gummi is oyle of Gumme.
Liquor salis is the balsome of Nature, by which
the body is preserved from putrefaction.
Locus vitæ is the seat of the mind or soul.
Locustæ are tops of boughs of trees, as yet tender
and green.
Lorindt is the commotion of waters, or a harmony
made by them.
Ludus is a medicine that cures the stone by dissolving
of it.
Lumbrici Nitri are worms found in the earth, or
mud, so called for their slipperinesse.
Luna is Silver.
Luna compacta is Quicksilver.
Lunaria is the Sulphur of Nature.
Lustrum is the creame of Milk.
acha is a flying worm.
Magia in generall is wisdome, and it is twofold. Naturall,
which is lawfull, and is the ground of all true
Physick, and the occult wisdome of Nature, without
which all mans reason or knowledge is ignorance.
The other is Diabolicall, superstitious, and unlawful,
and is called Necromancy, whereby men attaine to
the knowledge of things by the assistance of evill
spirits.
Magia Metaphysica is an art lawfull for
Christians to use, by which any occult secrets
are discovered.
Magisterium is in Paracelsus any secret extracted
out of naturall things without any Elementary separation,
with which other things are wont to bee prepared;
yet with the addition only of other things
from which that which is extracted is separated.
Magnalia are peculiar works of God.
Magnesia is commonly taken for a Marcasite, but
that which is artificiall is melted Tinne into which is
put Quicksilver, and both mixt into a brittle matter,
and white masse.
Magneticus tartarus is a stone, in a man as hard
as a Loadstone, and spongious.
Magoreum is a Magick medicament, or secret.
Maius noster is our dew, and the philosophicall
Loadstone.
Malek is Salt.
Mandella is the seed of black Hellebor.
Mandibularum liquor is oyle of jaw bones.
Mangonaria is an art used in weights, whereby that
which is made heavy is easily made light.
Manna is not only called a dew faln from heaven,
which is a kind of balsome or fruit of the aire, but
also it is taken for any sweet matter extracted out of
any thing.
Marcasita is an unripe matter of Metalls, and it is
of as many kinds as there be Metalls.
Marmoreus tartarus, is a stone in man as hard as
a marble.
Martath, or Martach is Letharge.
Mater metallorum is Quicksilver.
Materia saphirea is an homogeneal liquor, in which
there is no offending matter.
Matrices rerum are Elements.
Maturativa are medicines that Chirurgeons use to
ripen any aposteme.
Mechanopeotica is an invention of water-workes to
carry waters by pipes into high places, or the like.
Melaones, or Meloes are Beetles that fly, and are
of a golden colour, and being rubbed make a sweet
smell; they are commonly found in Meadows in the
moneth of May.
Melibæum is Copper.
Melissa is in Alchymie taken for Manna extracted
out of the best hearbs.
Mensis Philosophicus is the full time of Digestion,
viz. forty dayes.
Mercurius à naturâ coagulatus is a solid Metal.
Mercurius Corallinus, is that which by yelkes of
egges, and other waters, is brought into a rednesse
like Corall.
Mercurius Crudus is that which is not yet separated
from its Mine.
Mercurius Crystallinus, is that which by often sublimations
is brought into a cleernesse like Crystall.
Mercurius laxus is Turbith Mineral.
Mercurius metallorum præcipitatus is Mercury extracted
out of Metalls and precipitated.
Mercurius mineralium is an oylinesse extracted out
of the Mines of Gold, and Silver.
Mercurius regeneratus is the first being of Mercury.
Mercurialis seva is the water of Allum.
Menstruum is a liquor wherein any thing is dissolved,
or digested.
Metallum currens is Quicksilver.
Microcosmus is a little world, or man.
Minium is the Mercury, or rather Crocus of Lead
precipitated.
Missadam is Quicksilver.
Mitigativa are Chirurgicall medicines which allay
paine.
Monstra are Animalls which either have not proper
parents, and are not born of things like to themselves,
or have some defect, or excesse in Nature: but of this
see more in the first book of the foregoing Treatise.
Morus is an aposteme like to a Mulberry.
Mulæ are pustles arising from heat, or cold.
Mumia is not only mans flesh seasoned with balsom,
but any other flesh thus prepared.
Mumia Elementorum is the balsome of externall
Elements.
Mumia transmarina in Paracelsus is Manna.
Mumia versa is the liquor of mummie.
Muria is brine.
Muscilago is a viscous liquor.
Mundificativa are cleansing medicines.
Mustus is the white Calx in urine.
Myssadar is Mercury.
Mysterium magnum is the first matter of all things.
acta 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.
brizum 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 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.
andalitium, Paneritium, or Passa, is an aposteme
in the ends of the fingers, called
a white flaw.
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.
ualitas 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.
agadiæ 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.
Regale is a Ciment whereby Gold is purged.
Regulus is the purest metalline part of any metall,
or the purest part of a minerall, the feces being separated.
Relloleum is a vertue from the complexion, as in
St. Johns-wort, the first vertue is in heat, and is healing,
the other is accidentall, and occult, and is a preservative
against worms, and corruption.
Repercussiva are medicines which drive back any
flux.
Resina auri is a Crocus extracted out of Gold.
Resina terræ is Sulphur.
Resina terræ potabilis is sublimed Sulphur, brought
into a liquor, balsome, or oyl.
Reverberatorium is a furnace in which the matter is
calcined by a flame.
Rillus is an instrument which Goldsmiths use to
poure their melted metalls into long forms, and it is
called a Jngat.
Rosea is the same as Erisipelas.
Rubella is a spirituall essence extracting by its dissolving
power, the tincture out of bodies.
agani are spirits of the four Elements.
Sal aluminosum is salt which is extracted out of
alumen plumosum.
Sal anathron is salt extracted out of the stony
mosse.
Sal crystallinum is salt made out of mans urine.
Sal Calcotharinum is salt which is made out of the
Colcothar of Vitrial.
Sal congelatum is salt which grows in baths.
Sal enixum is salt dissolved.
Sal Mercurii is the spirit of the wine which causeth
drunkennesse.
Sal petre is that which grows in cold places upon
stones, congealed by the cold aire.
Sal nitrum is salt which is boiled out of the earth,
especially fat earth, as in stables, or any place of excrements.
Sal practicum is a mixture made of equall parts, of
Salt-petre, and Salt Armoniack.
Sal scissum, and alumen scissum are all one.
Sal taberzet, is whitest Tartar of all.
Salamandri are spirits dwelling in the fire,
or fiery men.
Saldini the same as Salamandri.
Sallena is the a kind of Salt-petre.
Saltabari is sal Alembrot.
Saltz, sultz, Selenipum, is brine.
Samech is Tartar.
Sandaracha is Auripigmentum.
Sanguis calcetus is that which is of as quick a tast
as Calx, and as white.
Saphirea materia is a liquor, in which there is no
impurity, or corruption, the pure being separated
from the impure.
Sapo sapientiæ is common salt prepared.
Saxifraga are all such things which break the
stone, or gravell.
Saxifragus is pale Crystall.
Scacurcula is the spirit of a bone in the heart of a
Hart.
Scaiolæ are the spirituall powers, and faculties of
the mind, and are four, according to the number of the
Elements.
Scirona is the dew of Autumne.
Scuma is the same as squama.
Sedativa are medicines that allay pain.
Semen veneris are called squama aris.
Senio maximus is the Author of long life.
Sephirus is a hard, and dry aposteme.
Seraphin is an unutterable vertue, an infinite power
of the heaven, and especially the assembly of Angels.
Serpheta is a medicine melting a stone.
Sibar is Quicksilver.
Silo is earth.
Similitudines are called celestiall appearances.
Simus is Gilla.
Sinonia is white glew of the joints.
Sirones are pustles or wheals, in the hands especially.
Sirza is eschara.
Sol in homine is the invisible fire flowing from the
celestiall Sun, preserving and nourishing that naturall
fire in man.
Soladini are corporeall spirits dwelling in the invisible
fire.
Somnia are operations which are made in man by
the stars when hee is sleeping.
Sonath is Anthos.
Sophia herba is the best kind of bone-wort.
Sophistæ are sometimes taken for Masters of any
art, or the wisest in any art; or sometimes for sophisters,
i.e. Deceivers, or Mountebankes.
Sortilegium, is a presage by spirits.
Spagiria is commonly taken for Alchymie.
Spagirus, or spagiricus is he which knows to distinguish
betwixt good, and bad, to separate pure
from impure, or a Chymist, or Alchymist.
Spara is the Minerall vertue out of the first being
of metalls.
Sperma aquæ fortis is its feculency.
Sperniolum is a mucilaginous liquor of frogs.
Spiritus Animalis is a power of the soul whereby it
becomes like to the heavens.
Stannar is called the mother of metalls, an occult
fume out of which Elements are generated.
Staraphaxat is a restringing or repercussive vertue.
Stellio adustus is Cinnabar.
Stibium is Antimony.
Stiptica are drying medicines.
Struma is Butium.
Sublimatio is when any dry matter is forced upward
by the heat of fire.
Succubus is a nocturnall spirit, whereby men are deceived,
thinking they are coupling with women.
Sulphur vitriolatum is sulphur extracted out of
vitriall by common water swiming on the top of it.
Sulphur rerum is many times taken for their quintessence.
Supermonicum is Ænigmaticall.
Sylo is the whole world.
Sylphes are Pigmies.
Sylvestres, or sylvani are aiery men, and aiery spirits,
sometimes they are taken for woodmen that are
strong giganticall men.
Syphita prava is a disease called S. Vitus his dance.
Syphita stricta is a phantastick spirit of them that
walke in their sleep.
alk, or Talcum is a clear shining matter, like
to pearls in colour, compacted with thinne
leaves or flakes, whereof there bee foure
kinds, viz. white, yellow, red, and blacke.
Tassus is a worme.
Tartarum is a hard saltish dregs that sticks to the
sides of Wine vessels; also it is often taken for stones
or gravell in mens bodies.
Telon is as it were a dart of fire.
Temperatum is that which exceeds not in any quality.
Tenacitas glutinis is minerall refine.
Tereniabin is the fatnesse of manna, or wood-hony,
which is found in good quantity in the moneths of
Iune, Iuly, August.
Terra argenti is Litharge of silver.
Terra auri is Litharge of Gold.
Terra fidelis is silver.
Terra Hispanica is Vitriall.
Terrelati are corporeall spirits living in the earth.
Testa is the skin of mans body.
Thamatica 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.
egetabilia 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.
Warnus is the Vineger of Philosophers.
Wismodt is Tin that is foule and immalleable,
and cannot be wrought upon.
enectum is any outward medicine hanged
about the body as a preservative against
the Plague.
Xeninephidei are spirits which delight to
discover the secret or occult properties of nature unto
men, the power of which is granted to them.
Xisinum is Vineger.
Yrcus is a Male Goat, whose blood is said to
soften glasse, and flints, &c.
Ysopus is the art of Alchymy to separate pure
from impure.
aidar is Mercury.
Zaidir is Copper or Verdegrease.
Zarfa is Tin.
Zelotum is stony Mercury.
Zerus is Gold.
Zoraba is Vitriall.
Zinck is a metallick marcasite, and a certain naturall
mixture of four immature metalls, whereof Copper
is most apparent.
Ziniar is Verdegrease.
Zuitter, or Zitter, is a Marcasite.
Zymar, or Zysar is Verdegrease.
FINIS.
