Paraselsus, Paraselsus his Dispensatory and Chirurgery (1656)
Date
1656
Author
Translator
Book title
Paraselsus his Dispensatory and Chirurgery. The Dispensatory Contains the choisest of his Physical Remedies. You have in the Treatises of Wounds, Vlcers, and Aposthumes
Publication place
London
Printer
M., T.
Publisher
Philip Chetwind
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
Definitions in the account of herbs
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: I know not any preservative better, and more certain against the poison of these Serpents, then Camphore dissolved in Rock-oyl, otherwise call'd oyl Petreole, wherewith you must annoint your hands, and your feet, and other naked places of your body, and so thou mayest safely handle them: but because this preservative can do no good, or is not efficacious enough against the most fierce and most poisonous Serpents; as that kind of Serpent which leaps at a man being a great way off: and the Crocodile which devours a whole man, albeit he be dead: and the Basilisk which kills a man by its sight only: therefore those who dwel in those places where these Serpents are, carried about them Gameheu's, which were made in the shape of a man, with his left foot trampling upon the neck of a Serpent; and they esteem'd of this as a singular preservative against these Serpents. (p. 120)
sample: I know not any preservative better, and more certain against the poison of these Serpents, then Camphore dissolved in Rock-oyl, otherwise call'd oyl Petreole, wherewith you must annoint your hands, and your feet, and other naked places of your body, and so thou mayest safely handle them: but because this preservative can do no good, or is not efficacious enough against the most fierce and most poisonous Serpents; as that kind of Serpent which leaps at a man being a great way off: and the Crocodile which devours a whole man, albeit he be dead: and the Basilisk which kills a man by its sight only: therefore those who dwel in those places where these Serpents are, carried about them Gameheu's, which were made in the shape of a man, with his left foot trampling upon the neck of a Serpent; and they esteem'd of this as a singular preservative against these Serpents. (p. 120)
Wing
B 3541
Criticisms
Cooper, William. William Cooper's A Catalogue of Chymicall Books, 1673-88: A Verified Edition. Ed. Stanton J. Linden. New York and London: Garland, 1987.
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