Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

Preface.

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: Thus he has in the Microcosmo the little world, i.e., man a balsam, a Quinta Essentia fifth essence, a Mumia medicinal preservative of the body, a Manna a divine gift/food, an Arcanum a secret/potent remedy, an Elixir a transformative medicine, a Mercurium mercury/fluid spirit: which is all nothing other than an inward container of all bodies against rotting and breaking, a tempered thing, a resolved salt, or a salt of the juice, sal liquoris in homine the salt of the liquid in man, which protects against rotting. Thus he calls Mercurium pręcipitatum precipitated mercury, Diatessadelton: likewise the hollow sores and fistulas, Dubelech: likewise, a medicine made of white coral and amber, Dubeleoleph: likewise, a goiter, Chœras, botium. And many more things of the like kind, which one cannot grasp as easily as if they were Galenic recipes.