NOBLE, MOST ILLUSTRIOUS, AND

most approved Philosopher & Physician,

Lord AUREOLUS PHILIPPUS

THEOPHRASTUS

BOMBAST, OF HO-

HENHEIM, CALLED

PARACELSUS,

Medico-Chemical Works

PARADOXES,

Genuine Sixth Volume,

The First of the Chemical works, containing Spagyric processes and preparations of natural things for the use of Medicine: and many other things regarding the Tincture of the Physicists, and the Heaven of the Philosophers: likewise regarding Cements and gradations.

Recently rendered into Latin, and published for the use of students of the New and
Old Philosophy,

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