Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell].

  • Robert Lovell
Date:
1665
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    | H Ant poy d nine | sates I (lont bte | dhpi« 5, 68 ] TON hut if de | itio f jh the The / | ya m (5) ate; from which arifeth aM he earth, as being firm, fixed, and the fub- tues analogous tot andis therefore called by 2, Sulphur, whence all or Sulpbur is that which preferves the natural heat of the parts ; the intrament of all vegetation; accretion, and tran{mutation, and the original of all {mells, both pleafant and unpleafant ; therefore its compared to the fire, eafily re- ceiving the flames, as all oily and refinous bodies do: alfoit fo it tempereth the drynefs of Salt, and moitture of Mercury, as being vifcous: the denfity of and acidity of Mercury, by its (weetnefs 5 therefore its called, Sal Petre, dalce, Anima, forma, agens, in- flammabile, natura, indicum, ex [Pirituale, by the Chymifts. 3. Mercurius, whence is all colour, and is reprefented by fimoke or fume; or Mercurie is that acid liquor, permeable, pene- trable, ethetious, and moft pure,from which arifeth all nourifhe ment, fenfe, motion, ftrength, colour, and. retardation of pres properant old age ; fo its compared to the element of Air and Water; tothe firftas being turned into vapours, by the vicinis ty of heat, and to this, as being hardly contained by its own term, but eafily inan others 5. or it is that effential body, thar, by its aereal, mot fubtile, viviaick, and fpirituous fubftance, is the pabulum of life; and the proximate inftrument of the effence, or forme ; and is called by Chymifts, Salammoniacums acidum, fpiritus idea, informans aut movens, vaporo[um, intelli- entia; intelle£lus, gloriojum | - Alfo Mercury containeth a ful- phurious and faline fubflance : Sulphur a falt and mercurial ; and Salt au oleaginous and material ; and the Phlegme and Cae put mortumm are not principles, but their integuments,and with» out all Hippocratick vertue 5 the firft being only moift, the o- ther dry and emplattick. Allo if Mercurial, acid,and fharp va- ours abound, there arifeth the epilipfie, apoplexy» palfie, and all kinds of Catarrhs, and defluxions, and epidemick and con- tagious difeafes if venenous. Sulpher, i£ abounding» caufeth infüammations and feavers, and the narcotica foporifirous di- feates. Salt exuperant,cauferh crofions, ulcers, heat of urine if diffolved, and tumors if coagulated. Thereto belongs Tartar, caufing the tone, gout, ore.