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Author: Paracelsus, 1493-1541.
Title: Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...
Print source: Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst ...
Paracelsus, 1493-1541., Tentzel, Andreas., Parkhurst, Ferdinando, fl. 1660.
London: Printed by T. Newcomb for T. Heath, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1653.
Notes:
Imperfect: tightly bound, with slight loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
Subject terms:
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28634.0001.001
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To the Right Honorable Basill Earle of Denbigh Viscount Feilding and Baron of Newnham.
. The Translator to the Reader.
On his worthy Friend Mr. Parkhurst and his Translation of this Mumiall Treatise.
To his ingenious Friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst the industrious Translator of this Excellent Treatise.
To my honored friend Mr. Ferdinando Parkhurst Translator of this Magneti∣call Tract.
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Reader.
A MUMIALL TREATISE.
CHAP. I. Of the definition, diversitie, constructi∣on, nature, and property of Mumie.
CHAP. II. Of the differences of Mumie.
CHAP. III. Of the Extraction of Aereall Mumie.
The first manner of Extraction of Mumie: Or, Of the Tincture of the Microcosme.
The third manner of Extraction, or of Aereall Mumie.
CHAP. IV. Of the Spirituall Mumie of a Micr¦cosmicall living body.
CHAP. VII. Of the use of Spirituall Mumie (in generall.)
CHAP. IX. Of the Time destinated by the Heavens for the proposed Operations.
CHAP. XII. To reconcile private or publick Enemies.
CHAP. XII.o reconcile the Ape and Serpent (na∣turally hating one another) and other Animals, who are by nature enemies.
CHAP. XIII. To procure a mutuall love and affection betwixt a Man and his Wife.
CHAP. XV. To cure both sorts of Jaundies.
CHAP. XVIII. To cure Feavers by this Mystery.
CHAP. XIX. Of the Oppilations of the Liver, Brain, Lungs, Spleen, Reynes, &c.
CHAP. XXII. Of Wounds and Ulcers.
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Hernia, or Burstennesse.
CHAP. XXIV. Of Fluxions and Salt Rheums causing pains and sorenesse in the Teeth and Eyes, &c.
CHAP. XXV. Of Menstruous Evacuation and Reten∣tion.
CHAP. XXVI. Of the Consumption & Hectick Feaver.
CHAP. XXVII. Of particular Blastings.
CHAP. XXVIII. Against Sterlity or Barrennesse: And also the manner of detracting strength from an Horse, and transmitting it into a Man, or from any Man or Beast into any other.