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Chemical remedies became increasingly popular over the course the early modern period, augmenting older preparations made from plants and animal parts. Often associated with the sixteeenth-century healer Paracelsus, chemical remedies were often controversial for physicians, but popular with patients.

The wards of the key to Helmont proved unfit for the lock: or, The principles…

Case, John
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Secrets disclosed, of consumptions...

Archer, John
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Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a…

Boyle, Robert
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The catholic medicine, and soverain healer. Rectifying and assisting the depraved functions, of infirm and…

Maynwaringe, Everard
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The potable balsome of life· Being a collection of the choicest preservatives that are extant…

[author not specified],
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Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically. Wherein is conteined [sic…

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Experiments in consort of the luctation arising from the affusion of several menstruums upon all…

Grew, Nehemiah
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Basilius Valentinus, a Benedictine monk, Of natural & supernatural things. Also, of the first tincture, root…

Valentinus, Basilius
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Alexicacus, spirit of salt of the world which vulgarly prepared is call’d the spirit of…

Rhodokanakēs, Kōnstantinos
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Via ad vitam, being a short and sure vvay to a long life. Or Helmont…

Starkey, George
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