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The secrets of physick and philosophy, divided into two bookes: in the first is shewed the true and perfect order to distill, or draw forth the oyles of all manner of gummes, spices, seedes, roots, and hearbs, with their perfect taste, smel

11 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves ; (12mo) · STC 19182 · Sudhoff 356, 184 · Pt. 1 is "a loose paraphrase, not a translation" of Duchesne's De exquisita mineralium, animalium, & vegetabilium medicamentorum spagyrica praeparatione & usu, perspicua tractatio. Pt. 2 probably is derived from Paracelsus. Cf. P. H. Kocher. John Hester, Paracelsan in Joseph Quincy Adams memorial studies, 1948, p. 629-630 · Earlier London editions (1575, 1580, 1596) were published under title: The key of philosophie. Also published anonymously in London in 1633 under title: A storehouse of physicall and philosophicall secrets

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