MEDICORVM.

way, they must be recalled to the remedy, and in another way, the three consequences must be recalled to the reason for using. Those three will be recalled (they say) by taking the indication from those very principles constituting the diseases, just as those three are affected and moved contrary to nature in the human body. Furthermore, these three principles, which are consequences, not logical ones but placed in the thing itself and in the nature of every composite thing, are moved contrary to nature in these ways. First indeed we shall speak of Mercury (says Paracelsus in book 2 of Paramyron, chapter 4): We have predicted this to be a liquor in man, and a varied one at that: whence also varied natures proceed from it. But now you should further know that there are only three ways of dissolution in it, of which one is the elevation of Mercury, which is called distillation: another is sublimation: the third is precipitation. And a little later, in the same chapter: In this way, he says, Mercury is driven from its state by the force of heat into an exaltation, which is nothing other than a repulsion: which is the principle of
It must be written "Paramyra," not "Paramira." Furthermore, "Paramyra" are called by Paracelsus ointments and remedies beyond common and accustomed remedies: like Paradoxes.