AND COMPLETE HERBAL. 
dry body, defending mixed bodies from putrefagtion, of excellent feouleye to diffolve, 
coagulate, cleanfe, and evacuate ; from which arifeth all folidity of body, denonii-- 
nations, taftes, and many other virtues analogous to the earth, as being firm, fixed, 
and the fubject of the generation of all bodies, and is therefore called by Chemifts, 
Sal, fal commune, acerbum {3 amare, corpus, materia, patiens, fixum, ars, [cufis materiale.” 
2. Sulphur, whence all odour or {mell arifeth, and is like.the flame ; or fulphur i is 
that {weet baliam, oily and vifcid, which preferves the natural heat of the parts; the 
inftrument. of all vegetation, accretion, and tran{mutation, and the o1 iginal of all 
fmells, both pleafant and unpleafant : therefore it is compared to the fire, eafily re- 
ceiving the flames, as all oily and refinous bodie#do: alfo it lenifieth and congluti- 
nates or conjoineth contrary extremes, as Sal and Mercury, that being fixed and this 
volatile, it participating of both extremes, fo it tempereth the ayn of Salt and 
moifture of Mercury, as being vifcous; the denfity of Sale and penetration of Mer- 
cury-by its remifs fluidity, and the bitternefs of Sal and acidity of Mercury sai its 
fweetnefs 5 5 therefore: itis called, Sal Petre, sat 1 MS, 
ws 
is reprefebeed by fmoke or fume ; or Mercury i is sthat a ac d li 
ble, etherious, and moft pure, from Ww 
element ‘of air and water; to the firft as being tu ie ae vapours ee the vic 
of heat, and-to this, as being hardly contained by its own term, but eafily infomi i 
others ; or it is that effential body, that by its. zereal, moft fubtl *Vivifick, and fpi- . 
rituous fubftance, is the pabulum of life, and the proximate inftrument of the effence 
or form, and is called by Chemifts, Sal ammoniacum, acidumy. tt ai 
aut movens, veporofum, intelligentia, intelletius, gloriofum ! A fo Merct 
fulphurous and faline fubftance, Sulphur a falt and mercurial, ‘and Salt a ol 
hous and material; and the. phlegm and caput mortuum are not principles, 
their Pertcimmegs anal-sithont, all LEhepoc inch, virtue; the | n 
