William SALMON.

2275.1 William SALMON.
Medicina Practica: or, Practical Physick. Shewing The Method of Curing the most Usual Diseases happening to Human Bodies... To which is added, The philosophick Works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artefius Longćvus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon, and George Ripley. All Translated out of The best Latin Editions, into English; and Carefully Claused, or divided into Chapters, and Sections, for the Pleasant Reading, and easier Understanding of those Authors. Together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most Ancient of Philosophers. The whole Compleated in Three Books. By William Salmon, Professor of Physick...
8° London: Printed by W. Bonny, for Tho. Howkins and John Harris 1692
Ferguson Young Wisconsin
[Contains:-
1. Hermes Trismegistus, The Golden Work.
2. Kalid, Secreta Alchymić.
3. Geber. The Sum.
4. Artephius Longćvus, Liber Secretus.
5. Nicholas Flamel, The Hieroglyphicks.
6. Roger Bacon. Radix Mundi.
7. Roger Bacon. Speculum Alchimiae.
8. George Ripley. The Marrow of Alchymie.]
[Illustrations:-
Four engravings to the works of Geber as in 'De alchemia' of 1541.
1. Inserted at beginning of 'The Sum of Geber Arabs' p335. 150x90mm. Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows an unlit cylindrical furnace with its component parts. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 50". The lower shows a similar furnace with flames of fire, and beside it a water bath that is intended to be placed in the furnace. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 51."
2. Inserted after item 1. 150x90mm. Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows an unlit rectangular furnace with its component parts. "Giber, Lib. 2. cap. 53, 55, 56." The lower shows a cylindrical furnace heating a flask in a water-bath. Besides this stands a man holding a large flask. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 54."
3. Inserted after item 2. 150x90mm Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows an alembic being heated on a cylindrical furnace. Beside it stands another alembic deconstructed to show the components. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 40, 41." The lower image shows an alembic being heated on a cylindrical furnace. Beside it on a shelf is another alembic, while beneath the shelf is a filtration apparatus. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 52."
4. Inserted after item 3. 150x90mm. Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows a furnace for fusion and calcination, with two crucibles standing beside it. "Geber, Lib. 2. cap. 53 & 65". The lower shows various pieces of alchemical equipment including flasks, alembics, pelican flasks, filtration apparatus, etc.
Four engravings 150x90mm. based on the woodcut plate used in Flamel, 'His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures...' 1624. Each of the images has references to a place in the text.
5. Inserted before the text of 'Nicholai Flammel Hieroglyphica', p521. Divided vertically into three separate images. The upper image shows three niches. In the first a flask is set upon a cylindrical support, and a hand descends holding a cover. The second and third niches have crucibles standing upon similar supports. The middle image shows a King with a sword seated on a throne ordering a masacre of the innocents, and children are being killed by soldiers. The lower image shows a winged and a unwinged dragon fighting on the ground.
6. Inserted after item 5. Divided vertically into two separate images. Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perrenelle, stand and declare 'Man will come to the judgment of God, and truly this day will be terrible'. The lower image depicts an angel saying "o eternal King" and gesturing towards a Christ-like figure with a sword who comforts a kneeling man who says "dele mala quaefeci".
7. Inserted after item 6. Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows the Christ-figure holding a orb in his left hand while he makes the gesture of peace with his right. Above him are three angels, one declaring 'Omnipotent Father', another 'O good Jesus', while the middle angel descends to place a crown of thorns on his head. In the lower image various bodies are seen resurrecting from their graves on the day of judgment, heralded by two angels with trumpets.
8. Inserted after item 7. Divided vertically into two separate images. The upper shows an angel saying "salve domine angelorum", and beside her stands St. Peter with his key, at whose feet a woman prays "Christ precor esto pius". The lower image shows two angels speaking the words "surgite mortui, venite ad judicium domini mei" towards the open mouth of a lion who is about the rip open the body of a man lying upon the ground.]