The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
Alias Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Alias)
Botanist
References in Documents:
Plates; in
some places, as it were efflorescent with several little
pro
tuberances consubstantial.
From the Description of this Stone above given, it ap
pears, that
Flints. This is that, which
a Lithontriptick. And thus
far I believe, that 'tis a very
good Diuretick; and may therefore sometimes be very
well
used for the carrying off of Gravel. But let
all that
have any Stone too big to be voided, take heed of
such
Medicines.
The Cathartick Property of Antimony, was first taken
notice of by
both Cathartick, and Diaphoretick, are now much cele
brated. Of
the Virtue of it also taken Crude, see the Phil.
Transact. (b) b) Red Oil, called
Stibij Sanguis, admirable
in Malignant Ulcers. (c)c)