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A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

posterity whereby he has demonstrated himself to be not only an inspired Divine but also a deep Philosopher obtaining his Wisdom rather from God than from Man 9. As for some of the next Authors there is not much of their History extant Kalid is reported to be a Persian King and Geber an Arabian King without doubt both of them were throughly learned in the Mysteries of Nature but chiefly in this Philosophick Art Artefius was a Jew of whom it is reported he lived a thousand Years how truly I will not say himself affirms it and very wise Men such as Paracelsus Pontanus and others seem to give Credit to it 10. Flammel was a French Man and originally a poor Scrivener yet left so great Monuments behind him as must convince the most incredulous that he knew the Secret and performed such mighty Works at his own proper Costs and Charges as the most opulent Prince in Europe can never do the like I know a Gentleman who went to view these mighty Buildings and their Records The Archives and Governors of those places he told me own the matter of fact but deny the Means saying that Flammel was a very Pious Man and went a Pilgrimage to St. James of Gallicia for a Reward of which Piety the Holy Saint bestowed that vast Treasure upon him by way of Miracle thereby denying the power of Art by which it was effected to establish it in a Miracle for a Confirmation of the Romish Church 11. Roger Bachon or Bacon was born Anno 1215. near Ilchester a great Town in Somerset shire of an Honourably Family He was brought up in the University of Oxford where he made an incredible Progress in the Arts and Sciences He applied himself to Philosophy and the search of Natures Secrets one of his Tutors being Edmund Arch-bishop of Canterbury and became a Franciscan Fryar in a Convent at Oxford 12. He wholly laid himself out in a diligent search of Nature and the knowledge of the Tongues and Arts was intimate with many Great and Learned Men expending some Thousands of Pounds in trying Experiments most of which were supposed to be those of the Philosophers Stone Nor did he bestow his cost or time in vain for 't is believed he attained to the knowledge of the Secret he sought after 13. By this means he did such great things in Nature and such Wonders that not only the Ignorant but also some Learned Men reputed him to be Magician or Conjurer saying He made a Brazen Head which speak by the help of the Devil Such was the Ingratitude of that Age that he was Persecuted by the very Men of his own Order and Religion For being Accused of Magick and Heresie Pope Nicholas IV. who disliked or understood not his Learning cast him into Prison and kept him close Prisoner many Years 14. He wrote many Books upon several Sciences as Grammar Logick Geometry Cosmography Astronomy Astrology Musick Ethicks Physicks Metaphysicks Perspective Opticks Divinity History Physick Chymistry and Alchymy How many Books be wrote is uncertain 't is to be doubted all are not in being and what have out-lived the injury of time many of them are difficult to be procured as yet lying hid in Manuscript As he was an Universal Scholar so he wrote well in all Arts and Sciences and Johannes Balaeus de Scriptoribus Angliae gives us the Titles of above an Hundred Books which he had wrote in all the choilest and most useful Sciences of which these we have here made English are two of them viz. De radicibus Mundi and Speculum Alchymiae 15. He was the greatest Critick of his Age and complained vehemently of the Ignorance and Ingratitude of his Contempories there being many created then Arte ulla Artium Magistri sine Doctrina Doctores Hê spared not the ignorance or ill Lives of the Clergy for which cause without doubt it was that he was so ill treated by them and complained that not a Man in England besides Grosthead and two or three more of his Acquaintance that understood the Hebrew or Greek Tongues 16. For the reason therefore of his Learning it was that he was Accused of Witchcraft and upon Malicious Pretences they took from him his Books and Writings long before Pope Nicholas cast him into Prison for which cause he complained to Pope Clement IV. his Friend saying The Priests and Fryars have kept me starving in close Prison nor would they suffer any one to come at me And some Ignorant fellows that would have been accounted Learned Men when they could not understand his Books condemned them as Books of the Black Art 17. Leland saith He wrote many Books but that it was as easie to gather the scattered Leaves of the Sybils as to Collect but the Titles of them For which and his siding with Grosthead in opposing the Pope and some other Heresies as they called them he was Accused of Witchcraft and by the said Pope Nicholas seized and kept close Prisoner as aforesaid in which Prison some say he died for Grief or with his hard Usage which was in the 78th Year of his Age in the Year of Our Lord 1292. and was Buried in the Franciscans Church in Oxford 18. George Ripley was a Cannon of Bridlington and flourished in the Year of Our Lord 1470. and about the 10th Year of Our Edward the Fourth much about which time he travelled into Italy and many other Foreign Countries and wrote his Medulla Alchymiae and sent it as a Present to the then Arch bishop of York After all he returned home to England and wrote several other Books as 1. his Epistle to King Edward IV. 2. His Twelve Gates 3. His Breviary of Alchymie or Recapitulation with several other things not yet come to our hands 19. He was an Excellent Man profoundly learned in the Art of Alchymie and an absolute Master without doubt of the Secret and it was the Opinion of a Learned Man in this Study that his Writings are for the fulness of them to be prefered before any others that he had ever read or seen I learned says he the Philosophers Magnet from one the Magical Chalybs from another Diana's Doves from a 〈◊〉 the Philosophers Air or Chamelion from a nother the Preparation of their Menstruum from another and the number of Eagles in another But for the true Matter signs of the true Mercury and the Operation I know none saith he like Ripley though Flammel be Eminent He Dyed Anno Dom. 1490. 20. We come now to the matter of the Book As to the first Book we say it is a Practical Discourse upon some principal Diseases deduced from the Fountain of Experience it self wherein we have delivered a new Hypothesis concerning the Generation of Sand Gravel and Stones in Humane Bodies and now brought to light purely by Reason and Mechanical Operations The thing as it is noval it is rational and without doubt is possible to be improved to many singular advantages if a Prudent Man

almost as much Gold much better indeed than common Gold more soft also and more pliable V. I speak it in all Truth I have made it three times with the help of Perrenelle who understood it as well as my self because she assisted me in my Operations And without doubt if the would have indeed done it alone she would have brought the work to the same or full as great perfection as I had done VI. I had truly enough when I had once done it but I found exceeding great pleasure and delight in seeing and contemplating the Admirable Works of Nature within the Vessels VII And to shew to you that I had then done it three times I caused to be depicted under the same 〈◊〉 three Fornaces like to those which serve for the operations of this work VIII I was much concern'd for a long time lest that Perrenelle by reason of extream joy should not hide her foelicity which I measured by my own and lest she should let fall some words among her Relations concerning the great Treasure which we possessed IX For an extremity of Joy takes away the Understanding as well as an extremity of Grief and Sorrow but the goodness of the most great God had not only given and fill'd me with this Blessing to give me a Sober and Chaste Wife but she was also a Wise and Prudent Woman not only capable of Reason but also to do what was reasonable and was more discreet and secret than ordinarily other Women are X. Above all she was exceedingly Religious and devout And therefore seeing her self without hope of Children and now well stricken in years she made it her business as I did to think of God and to give our selves to the Works of Charity and Mercy XI Before the time wherein I wrote this Discourse which was at the latter end of the Year of Our Lord 1413. after the Death of my Faithful Companion whose loss I cannot but lament all the days of my life She and I had already founded and endowed with Revenues 14 Hospitals 3 Chappels and 7 Churches in the City of Paris all which we had new built from the Ground and enriched with Great Gifts and Revenues with many Reparations in their Church-yards XII We also have done at Boloigne about as much as we have done at Paris not to speak of the Charitable Acts which we both did to particular poor people principally to poor Widdows and Orphans XIII Whose Names should I divulge with the largeness of the Charity and the way and manner of doing it as my reward would then be only in this World so neither could it be pleasing to the persons to whom we did it XIV Building therefore these Hospitals Chappels Churches and Church-yards in this City I caused to be depicted under the said fourth Arch the most-true and essential Marks or Signs of this Art yet under Vails Types and Hieroglyphick Covertures in imitation of those things which are contained in the Gilded Book of Abraham the Jew XV. This representation may signifie two things according to the capacity and understanding of those who may view them First The Mysterie of the Resurrection and day of Judgment wherein Christ Jesus our Lord whom I pray and beseech to have mercy upon us shall come to judge the World XVI Secondly It might signifie to such as have learned Natural Philosophy all the principal and necessary Operations of the Magistery or the true and whole Process of the Grand Elixir XVII These Hieroglyphick Figures serve also as a double way leading to the Heavenly Life The first demonstrating the Sacred Mysteries of our Salvation as shall be hereafter shewed The other demonstrating to the Wise and Men of Understanding the direct and perfect way of Operation and lineary work of the Philosophers Stone XVIII Which being perfected by any one takes away from him the root of all sin and evil which is Covetousness changing his evil into good and making him Liberal Courteous Religious Devout and fearing God how wicked soever he was before XIX For from thence forward he is continually ravished with the goodness of God and with his Grace and Mercy which he has obtained from the fountain of Eternal Goodness with the profoundness of his Divine and adorable power and with the Consideration of his Admirable Works XX. These are the Reasons which moved me to set these Figures and Representations in this manner and in this place viz. to the end that if any Man obtain this inestimable Good or becomes Master of this Rich and Golden Fleece XXI He may consider with himself as I did not to hide this Tallent which God has bestowed upon him in the Earth buying Houses Lands and Possessions which are the Vanity and Follies of this World XXII But rather to persue his Work and to bestow the product with all Love and Charity among the Poor and Needy remembring that he learned this Secret among them that possessed nothing to wit among the Bones of the Dead in which number he himself shall shortly be found XXIII And that after this Life he must render an Account before a most just and mighty Judge who will judge every one according to his Works and to whom he must render an account for every vain and idle word XXIV Having therefore well weighed my words and well understood those my Figures having also the knowledge of the prima materia or first Agents persue thou the Work to the perfection of this Magistery of Hermes for the Glory of God and the good of Necessitous and Distressed human kind XXV But more especially to those who are of the houshold of Faith to such as are truly poor and just people Aged persons and Widdows Orphans and forlorn the despised and forsaken whom the world is not worthy of dispersing bounteously of this your hidden Treasure with an open and Liberal but Secret hand CHAP. XXVII The Theological Interpretations given to these Hieroglyphicks according to the Mind of Flammel the Author I. OVer against one of the Pillars of the Charnel-house which I gave to the Church-yard of the Innocents I caused to be painted a Man all black who looks directly on these Hieroglyphicks who pronounces I see a Wonder at which I am much amazed Also three Plates of Iron and Copper on the East West and South of the aforenamed Arch where these Hieroglyphicks are in the midst of the Church-yard representing the holy Passion and Resurrection of the Son of God II. Whos 's Interpretation in a Theological sense is that this Black Man proclaims it a wonder as well to see the admirable Works of God in the Transmutation of Metals figured in those Hieroglyphicks which he so attentively beholds as to see the Resurrection of the Dead to the fearful and terrible Day of Judgment III. But the Earthen Vessel on the right hand of these Figures within the which there is a Pen-case and Inkhorn or rather a Vessel of Philosophy if you take away the Strings