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REM (beta) Reading Early Medicine

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 triumphant chariot of antimony; being a conscientious discovery of the many real transcendent excellencies…

Valentinus, Basilius
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Pyrologia mimica, or, An answer to Hydrologia chymica of William Sympson, phylo-chymico-medicus; in…

Wittie, Robert
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Paracelsus, his Archidoxis, or, chief teachings; comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of…

Paracelsus,
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Paracelsus his Archidoxes: comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums…

Paracelsus,
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Novum lumen medicum; wherein the excellent and most necessary doctrine of the highly-gifted philosopher…

Poleman, Joachim
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The holy guide, leading the way to vnite art and nature: in which is made…

Heydon, John
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A brief examination and censure of several medicines, of late years extol’d for universal remedies…

Starkey, George
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Bazilica chymica, & Praxis chymiatricæ or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those…

Croll, Oswald
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An appendix to The unlearned alchimist; wherein is contained the true receipt of that excellent…

Kendall, George
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The triumphant chariot of antimony; being a conscientious discovery of the many reall transcendent excellencies…

Valentinus, Basilius
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