A CHYMICALL DICTIONARY — Entries
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Sedziwój, Michal, Paracelsus, and French, John
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.