Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

sale, & sulphure, tanquam ex tribus principijs constans, quæ analysi Spargirica deprehenduntur salt, and sulfur, as if consisting of three principles, which are discovered by spagyric analysis), brings it forth, and separates it. Thus he has in the Microcosm a Balsamum, Quinta Essentia, Mumia, Manna, Arcanum, Elixir, Mercurium: all of which is nothing other than an internal container of all bodies against putrefaction and breaking, a tempered thing, a resolved salt, or a salt of the juice, sal liquoris in homine salt of the humor in man, which protects against putrefaction. Thus he calls the Mercurium precipitatum precipitated mercury, Diatessadelton. Item, hollow sores and fistulas, Dubelech. Item, a medicine made from white coral and amber, Dubeleoleph. Item, a goiter, Chœras or botium. And many more things of this kind, which one cannot grasp as easily as if they were Galenic prescriptions.