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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	gem_n	life_n	loadstone_n	54	3	16.2526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92903	A new light of alchymie: taken out of the fountaine of nature, and manuall experience. To which is added a treatise of sulphur: / written by Micheel Sandivogius: i.e. anagram matically, divi Leschi genus amo. Also nine books of the nature of things, written by Paracelsus, viz. Of the generations growthes conservations life: death renewing transmutation separation signatures of naturall things. Also a chymicall dictionary explaining hard places and words met withall in the writings of Paracelsus, and other obscure authors. All which are faithfully translated out of the Latin into the English tongue, by J.F. M.D.; Novum lumen chymicum. English.	Sędziwój, Michał, ca. 1556-ca. 1646.; French, John, 1616-1657.; Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Of the nature of things.; Dorn, Gerhard, 16th cent. Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2506; Thomason E604_3; Thomason E604_4; Thomason E604_5; ESTC R203736	79,289	151

spirits Celestiall Infernall Humane Metalline Minerall of Salts of Gemmes of Marcasites of Arsenicks of Potable things of Rootes of Juices of Flesh of Blood of Bones c. Wherefore also know that the spirit is most truly the life The Spirit is the life of all Corporeall things and balsome of all Corporeall things But now wee will proceed to the species and briesly describe to you in this place the life of every naturall thing in particular What the life of man is The life therefore of all men is nothing elfe but an Astrall balsome a Balsamick impression and and a celestiall invisible Fire an included Aire and a tinging spirit of Salt I cannot name it more plainly although it bee set out by many names And seeing wee have declared the best and chiefest wee shall bee silent in these which are lesse materiall What the life of Metalls is The life of Metalls is a secret fatnesse which they have received from Sulphur which is manifest by their flowing for every thing that flowes in the fire flowes by reason of that secret fatnesse that is in it unlesse that were in it no Metall could flow as wee see in Iron and Steel which have lesse Sulphur and fatnesse then all the other Metalls wherefore they are of a dryer Nature then all the rest What the life of Mercury is Mercury is like to a garment of skins The life of Mercury is nothing else but the internall heat and externall coldnesse i.e. it makes the internall part of its body hot and the outward part cold and therefore might well bee compared to a garment made of skins which doth even as Mercury make hot and cold For if a man wears such a garment it makes him warme and keeps him from the cold but if the smooth pare of those skins bee put upon his naked body it makes him cold and is good against too much heat wherefore it was a custome in ancient time and still is in some places to weare skins as well in Summer as in Winter as against cold in the one so against heat in the other in Summer they turn the smooth side inward and the hairy side outward and in Winter the hairy side inward and the smooth side outward As therefore you have heard of the garment of skins so also it may bee said of Mercury What the life of Sulphur is The life of Sulphur is a combustible stinking fatnesse for whilst it burns and stinks it may be said to be alive What the life of Salts is Now the life of all Salts is nothing else but the spirit of Aquae fortis for that water being drawne from them that which remains in the bottome is called Dead earth What the life of Gemmes and Coralls is The life of Gemmes and Coralls is only their colour which with spirit of Wine may be taken from them What the life of Pearls is The life of Pearls is nothing else but their splendor which they lose in calcination What the life of the Loadstone is The life of the Loadstone is the spirit of Iron which may bee extracted and taken away with spirit of Wine The life of Flints what The life of Flintes is a mucilaginous matter The life of Marcasites what The life of Marcasites Cachymia Talcum Cobaltum Zimri Granata Wismat and of Antimony is a tinging Metalline spirit The life of Arsenicks The life of Arsenickes Auripigment Operment Realgar and such like matters is a Minerall and coagulated poison The life of Excrements The life of Excrements i.e. of mans dung or beasts dung is their stinking smell for this being lost they are dead The life of aromaticall things The life of Aromaticall things viz. of Muske Amber Gryse Civet and whatsoever yeelds a strong good and sweet smell is nothing else but that gratefull odour for if they lose this they are dead and of no use The life of sweet things The life of sweet things as of Sugar Honey Manna Cassia and such like is in their tinging and subtile sweetnesse for if that sweetnesse bee taken from them by distilling or subliming they are dead unprofitable and nothing worth The life of Rozzen The life of all Rozzens as Amber Turpentine Gumme is the muciliginous shining fatnesse which gives that excellent vernish to them all for when they will yeeld no more vernish and lose their shining they are dead The life of Plants The life of Hearbs Roots Apples and other such like fruit is nothing else but the liquor of the Earth which they lose of their own accord if they do but want water and Earth The life of Wood. The life of Wood is a certaine Rozzen for any wood if it want Rozzen can live no longer The life of Bones The life of Bones is the liquor of Mummie The life of flesh The life of flesh and blood is nothing else but the spirit of Salt which preserves them from stinking and putrefaction and is of it selfe as water separated from them The life of every Element Now concerning the life of Elements you must know that the life of Water is its running For when by the coldnesse of the Firmament is is congealed into ice it is dead and its mischievousnesse is taken from it that no body can bee drowned in it What the life of Fire is The life of Fire is Aire for Aire makes fire burne with greater vehemency and heate Also there cometh forth from all Fire a kind of Aire which will blow out a candle and drives up a feather as you may dayly see before your eyes Wherefore the flame of Fire is choaked if it bee so stopt up that it can neither receive in Aire and let out its own Aire What the life of Aire is The Aire lives by and of it selfe and gives life to all other things What the life of Earth is The earth of it selfe is dead but the Element of it is an invisible and secret life OF THE NATVRE Of Things THE FIFTH BOOK Of the Death or ruine of all things What Death is THe death of all naturall things is nothing else but an alteration and destruction of their powers and vertues a predominancy of that which is evill and an overcoming of what is good an abolishing of the former nature and generation of a new and another nature For you must know that there are many things that whilst they are alive have in them severall vertues but when they are dead retaine little or nothing of their vertue but become unsavory and unprofitable So on the contrary many things whilest they live are bad but after they are dead and corrupted manifest a manifold power and vertue and are very usefull Wee could bring many examples to confirme this but that doth not belong to our purpose But that I may not seem to write according to mine own opinion only but out of my experience

wee teach to make in our Chirurgerie That water doth presently mixe with the blood and preserves it so that it will never bee putrefied or grow unsavory but continue many years as fresh and very red as it was the first day and this indeed is a great wonder But if thou dost not know how to make this water or hast it notin readiness then poure upon it so much of the best and most excellent balsome and this will doe the same Now this blood is the balsome of balsomes and is called the Arcanum of blood and it is so wonderful and of such great vertue that it is incredible to be spoken wherefore thou shalt conceale it as a great secret in Physick How metalls may be preserved What are the enemies of metalls In preserving of Metalls their Enemies are first to bee known that so much the better they may bee preserrved from harme The chiefest Enemies of Metalls are all sharp corroding Waters all Corrosive things all Salts crude Sulphur Antimony and Mercury But that you may know particularly how the shew their enmity it is thus Sharp Waters and such things as are Corrosive and Salts shew their enmity in that they mortifie dissolve calcine corrupt Metalls and reduce them to nothing How the fume of Sulphur doth discolour metallis Crude Sulphur shews its enmity in the fume thereof for by its fume it takes away from Copper its colour and rednesse and makes it white From white Metalls as Silver Tinne Lead and Iron it takes away the whitenesse and makes them red and yellowish From Gold it takes away that faire amiable yellownesse and golden colour and makes it black and so foule that nothing can bee more foule How Antimony spoiles and discolours metalls Antimony shews its enmity in this in that all Metalls with which it is melted or mixed it spoiles carryeth away and preys upon and also not unlike to Sulphur by its fume it takes away from Metalls their true and naturall colour and brings in another Quick-silver distroyes metalls and how Quick-silver doth destroy Metalls upon this accompt in that it enters into Metalls with which it is joined and dissolves them so as that it makes an Amalgama of them Wherefore the fume thereof which wee common Mercury makes all Metalls brittle that they cannot be malleated and calcines them also it makes all red Metalls of a golden colour to bee white but it is the greatest enemie of all to Iron and Steel for if common Mercury doe but touch a barre of Iron or Steel or that be but smeared over with Mercuriall oile that bar will afterward be broken like glasse and be bowed which indeed is a great secret and deserves to be kept exceeding close In like manner must the Loadstone be kept from Mercury for the like enmity it shews to that as to Iron For any Loadstone that Mercury hath but touched How the loadstone may be spoyled or which hath been smeered with Mercuriall oyle or only put into Mercury will never draw Iron more Let no man wonder at this for there is a naturall cause for it and it is this viz. because Mercury extracts the spirit of Iron which was hid in the Loadstone which spirit draws the spirit of Iron to it and this is not only in the Loadstone but in all naturall things else so that alwaies a strange spirit in a body which is not of the same Nature with it selfe drawes to it self a body which is of the same Nature and this wee must know to bee so not only in the Load-stone but also in all other naturall things as Minerals Stones Hearbs Roots Men and Brutes What antipathy there is betwixt metalls themselves That Metalls have an enmity and hate one the other naturally as you see in Lead which is naturally a very great enemy to Gold For it breaks asunder all parts of Gold it makes it foule weak spoiles and destroyes it even to death more then any other Metall Tin also hates and is an enemy to all Metalls for in makes them base immalleable hard unprofitable if it bee mixed with them in the fire or in melting Since therefore you have now heard of the Enemies of Metalls you must next know their preservatives which keep them from all manner of hurt or corruption also strengthen them in their Nature and vertue and exalt their colour Gold is preserved in boyes urine First therefore concerning Gold you must know that it cannot bee preserved better and fairer then in boyes urine in which Salt Armoniack is dissolved or in water alone of Salt Armoniack In them in time the colour is so highly exalted that it can bee exalted no higher How silver is preserved Silver cannot be better preserved then if it be boiled in common Water or Vineger in which Tartar or Salt have been dissolved So any old Silver that is made black and fouled is renewed by being boiled in these waters How Iron and Steel may be served The best preservative for Iron and Steels is the lard of a Barrow-hog not salted which indeed preserves Iron and Steel from rust if once every moneth they be smeered over with it Also if Iron bee melted with fixt Arsenicke it will be so renewed and fixt How Copper is preserved that it will like Silver never contract rust Copper may be preserved if it bee only mixed with sublimed Mercury or bee smeered over with the oyle of Salt and so it will never any more be grown over with verdegrease How Lead is preserved Lead can no wayes bee better preserved then in cold Earth and in a moist place according to the Nature thereof How the Load-stone is preserved The Load-stone is preserved best of all with the filings of Iron and Steel for by this meanes it is never weakened but daily strengthened The preservation of Salts Now concerning the preservation of Salts and all things that are of a saltish Nature and may be comprehended under the name of Salt of which there are more then an hundred sorts you must know that they are to bee preserved in a hot dry place and in woodden vessells not in Glasse Stone or Metalls for in those they are dissolved and become a Water and an Amalgama which cannot be in Wood. Moreover you must know how some kind of Waters and Liquors pressed out of hearbs roots The preservation of liquors with oils and all other fruits and Vegetables which doe easily contract filth and slime as if a skin were spread over them may be preserved These Waters therefore and Liquors must bee put up into glasses that are narrow towards the top and wide below and the glasses be filled to the top then adde a few drops of oyl Olive that all the Water or Liquor may bee covered so the Oyl will swim on the top and preserve the Liquor or Water along time from filth or flime For there is no Water or liquor if