John Heydon, English Physician's Guide or the Holy Guide (1662)
Date
1662
Author
John
Heydon
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A Chymical Dictionary
Book title
The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy-Guide, Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practise, use and benefit of the meanest Capacities
Publication place
London
Printer
T.M.
Publisher
Samuel Ferris
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- chemistry
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
Opens with a chemical dictionary of words used in the book, a work of mystical Rosicrucian philosophy.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
g8v-h4r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 70
sample: Volatile, is that which flyeth the fire.
number: 70
sample: Volatile, is that which flyeth the fire.
Alston
XVII.I.263
Wing
H 1666
Other editions
1662: Wing H1666 (Alston XVII.I.264)
Criticisms
- Linden (1987): 56.
