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# Title: [De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atque aliarum, quae ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinae usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi] De Re Metallica, Hoc Est, De Origine, Varietate, & Natura Corporum Metallicorum, Lapidum, Gemmarum, atq[ue] aliarum, quæ ex fodinis eruuntur, rerum, ad Medicinæ usum deseruientium, Libri III. Autore Christophoro Encelio Salueldensi. (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 57)
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Dere Mecallica
es alia medicamenta. O ucinam nostrimedici, prae-
cipue chirurgi, cadmias illas non ienorarent, se d in
usum medicum revocarent. Dehis factitiis cadmiis
euidePlinium libro3 4. Cap. 10. ubi inquit: Cadmia
infornacibus existit, aliamque nominis sui originem
recipit: fit aute cgesta Rammis. atq. Ratu, tenuissima
Parte materiae, es cameris, lateribus q. fornacu, pro
quantitate levitatis applicata, scilicet:
I. Tenuisima est in ipso fornacum ore, qua flam-
maeeluctantur; dicta capnitis exustases nimia leni-
tate similis fauillae.
II. Botrrites, duorum colorum: cincreiscilicet.
es sic deterior: puniceises sic melior. Haec interior
dependet cameris.
III. In lateribus fornacum, quae propter grauita-
tem ad cameras peruenire non potuit. haec est placi
tis crusta verius. Fx ea etiam fiuunt duo alia cene-
rascilicet: 1. Onichites, extra pene caerulea intus
onichis similis maculis suis. 2. Ostracitis, quae est
totaniera, es caecerarum fortisima, nulnerib. utilis.
Omnis aucem cadmia in Cypri fornacibus optima
est. Haec Plinius.
Caeterum quomodo ex lauari et aduri debeat cad
mid, item quae vires cadmiis, cundem ipse consule Pli
nium L. C. Vide es Calenum, Auicennam, es alios.
Alii recentiores inhis, ut de rebusienotis, adeo tur
piter sese dedere, consundentes haec omnia in unum
chaosi