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Medicina instaurata, or, A brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art of physick with the insufficiency of the vulgar way of preparing medicines, and the excellency of such as are made by chymical operation : whereto is added a short but plain discourse as a light to the true preparation of animal and vegetable arcana's : together with a discovery of the true subject of the philosophick mineral mercury ... as also some small light to the preparation of and use of the said mercury ... / by Edward Bolnest ... ; also an epistolary discourse upon the whole by the author of Medela medicinæ.
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Bolnest, Edward.
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therefore_o more_o fit_v to_o assist_v the_o decay_a and_o faint_a spirit_n of_o the_o infirm_a and_o languish_a body_n and_o so_o as_o be_v of_o her_o own_o condition_n or_o quality_n reinforce_v enable_v and_o assist_v nature_n the_o body_n preserver_n to_o expel_v and_o drive_v out_o her_o prevalent_a and_o health-destroying_a opposer_n and_o this_o certain_o be_v the_o intent_n and_o meaning_n of_o hypocrates_n where_o he_o tell_v we_o contraria_fw-la contrariis_fw-la curari_fw-la debent_fw-la contrary_n must_v be_v drive_v away_o and_o cure_v by_o contrary_n viz._n corruptibilia_fw-la per_fw-la incorruptibilia_fw-la immunda_fw-la enim_fw-la per_fw-la munda_fw-la &_o non_fw-la per_fw-la immunda_fw-la mundantur_fw-la &_o purificantur_fw-la pure_a thing_n only_o be_v fit_a to_o purify_v and_o not_o dirty_a and_o impure_a disease_n be_v the_o beginning_n of_o the_o corruption_n of_o the_o body_n and_o to_o remove_v corruption_n by_o corruption_n or_o corrupt_v and_o corruptible_a 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