Besides, these signatures many more may be reckoned up. But seeing they bring with them, evill, hurtfull and dangerous fancies, and imaginations, and superstitions, which may be an occasion not onely of some misfortune, but also death, I shall passe them over in silence. They are prohibited from being revealed to us, seeing they belong to the schoole of secrets, and divine power. Therefore now I shall put an end to this book.
A CHYMICALL DICTIONARY: EXPLAINING Hard Places and Words met withall in the Writings of _Paracelsus_, and other obscure AUTHOURS.
_London_, Printed by _Richard Cotes_, for _Thomas Williams_ at the Bible in Little-Britain, 1650.
_Acetum Philosophorum_ is a Mercuriall water, or otherwise is called Virgins milke, wherein they say Metalls are dissolved.
_Acetum radicale_ is Vineger distilled out of its owne roote, and matrix, and is called the Dissolving Water.
_Adech_ is our interiour, and invisible man, which represents the formes of all things in our mind, which afterward our outward man doth frame, and imitate with its own hands; both of them work according to their nature.
_Aerdadi_ are corporeall spirits living in the air.
_Æs_ doth not alwaies signifie Copper, but sometimes Gold, or Silver, or any other Metall that is pure, and generated by it self, without the mixtion of any other Metall, or Stone; out of some such kind of Metall, they formerly made and coined money.
_Æstphara_ is the burning of flesh, or the substance of the body into ashes.
_Æthna_ is called Subterranean fire, invisible, and sulphureous, which burnes stones into coales, like Jeat in the mountains, which are full of Resine, and Bitumen.
_Æthnici_ are called fiery spirits, or spirituall men burning in the fire, which appear in divers forms, and shapes, as fiery flames, firebrands, round balls of coals, and that especially in Sulphur mountains.
_Alandahal_, or _Alhandal_ is _Coloquintida_.
_Alcaest_, or _Altaest_, is said to be prepared Mercury, some will have it to bee Tartar, but the mind of the Authour is more easily understood by the description of the preparation of it.
_Alcali_ is called all manner of Salt, which is extracted out of ashes, or calx of any matter by boiling in lie.