William Salmon, Seplasium: The Complete English Physician (1693)
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Date
1693
Author
Book title
Seplasium. The Compleat English Physician: Or, The Druggist's Shop Opened. Explicating all the Particulars of which Medicines at this day are composed and made. Shewing their various Names and Natures, their several Preparations, Virtues, Uses, and Doses, as they are applicble to the whole Art of Physick, and containing above 600 Chymical processes
Publication place
London
Publisher
Matthew Gilliflower and George Sawbridge
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- fauna
- Greek
- Hebrew
- herbal
- Latin
- medicine
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: CHAP. LVIII. Spongites, Sponge Stone. I. IT is called in Greek, Αίθοσ ἐν τοῖς σπόλλοις, Lithos en tois Spongois; in Latin, Spongites, Spongiæ Lapis, Cysteolithos, Κυςεόλιθοσ; in English, Sponge Stone. II. It is found in those places where Sponges are found, and is made of the matter of Sponges petrified or hardned. Schroder saith that it also grows in Sponges, and is a brittle stone white or gray. III. It extenuates without much heat, and as Schroder says it is good to break the stone in the Reins and Bladder, and to discuss tumors of the Kings Evil, being drunk every morning in Urine, or in Wine with Sal, Gem, and Tartar. IV. The levigated Puder, absorbs Acids, destroys the matter breeding the Stone and Gout, and cures Heart-burnings and vehement pains of the Stomach. (p. 232)
sample: CHAP. LVIII. Spongites, Sponge Stone. I. IT is called in Greek, Αίθοσ ἐν τοῖς σπόλλοις, Lithos en tois Spongois; in Latin, Spongites, Spongiæ Lapis, Cysteolithos, Κυςεόλιθοσ; in English, Sponge Stone. II. It is found in those places where Sponges are found, and is made of the matter of Sponges petrified or hardned. Schroder saith that it also grows in Sponges, and is a brittle stone white or gray. III. It extenuates without much heat, and as Schroder says it is good to break the stone in the Reins and Bladder, and to discuss tumors of the Kings Evil, being drunk every morning in Urine, or in Wine with Sal, Gem, and Tartar. IV. The levigated Puder, absorbs Acids, destroys the matter breeding the Stone and Gout, and cures Heart-burnings and vehement pains of the Stomach. (p. 232)
Alston
XVII.I.373
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