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Of Natural & Supernatural Things

Of Natural & Supernatural Things

by Basilius Valentinus

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Author
Basilius Valentinus
Title
Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
Credits
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
QD: Science: Chemistry
Subject
Antimony -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
eBook-No.
26340
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26340
Release Date
August 17, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Translated out of High Dutch by Daniel Cable . — LONDON ,
  3. 3.Alex. Van Suchten — SECRETS of ANTIMONY . — Translated out of High Dutch by D. C. a Person of great Skill in Chymistry . — LONDON ,
  4. 4.Basilius Valentinus , — OF — Natural and Supernatural Things .
  5. 5.Chap. I.
  6. 6.Chap. II. — Of the first Tincture and Roots of Metals.
  7. 7.Chap. III. — Of the Spirit of Mercury.
  8. 8.Chap. IV. — Of the Spirit of Copper.
  9. 9.Chap. V. — Of the Spirit and Tincture of Mars.
  10. 10.Chap. VI. — Of the Spirit of Gold. — Hereunto I add a short process:
  11. 11.Chap. VII. — Of the Spirit of Silver. [Transcriber's note: Original heading had Gold with a handwritten correction to Silver.]
  12. 12.Chap. VIII. — Of the Soul or Tincture of Tin.
  13. 13.Chap. IX. — Of the Spirit of Saturn, or Tincture of Lead.
  14. 14.Of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony , as well to preserve Mans Body in Health, and to divert all desperate, and incurable Diseases, as also to cure the Leprosie of Metals, to purifie and to transmute them into the best Gold. — Written by that Noble and Learned Philosopher , Roger Bacon. — Now we come to the Manual Operation. — The Water wherein we dissolve is thus made. — In the Gout. — In the Leprosie. — In the Apoplexie. — In the Dropsie. — In the Falling Sickness, and its kinds, as Epilepsie, Catalepsie, and Analepsie. — In a Hectick. — In Agues. — In the Plague. — For a prolongation of a healthful Life. — Its Multiplication. — Glory be to Almighty God.
  15. 15.A Work of Saturn, of Mr. John Isaac Holland. — The PREFACE. — A Work of Saturn — In the Name of the Lord , Amen. — Example. — Why is it as white as Snow? — Why is it sweet? — What hath God in us, for whose sake he hath created all these Wonders, and all these things? — Now, my Child, why is Saturn fluxible as Wax? — The second way of preparing the Water of Paradise. — The Multiplication of the Stone now perfected. — Projection upon Metal. — Its Use in Physick. — Its Use in External Diseases. — God is blessed in his works. — FINIS.

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