Occult physick, or The three principles in nature anatomized by a philosophical opperation [sic] : taken from experience, in three books. The first of beasts, trees, herbs, and their magical and physical vertues. The second book containeth most excellent and rare medicines for all diseases happening to the bodies of both men and women, which never yet saw the light; an incomparable piece. The third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments; and the mystery of the quarternary, and quinary number opened; with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in a planetary hour both day and night; with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendent, fitted for magical uses; as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses. Whereunto is added a neccessary [sic] tract, shewing how to judge of a disease by the affliction of the moon, upon the sight of the patients urine, with an example; also you are taught how to erect a figure of heaven for any time given. By W.W. Philosophus; student in the coelestial sciences.
1660
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Occult physick, or The three principles in nature anatomized by a philosophical opperation [sic] : taken from experience, in three books. The first of beasts, trees, herbs, and their magical and physical vertues. The second book containeth most excellent and rare medicines for all diseases happening to the bodies of both men and women, which never yet saw the light; an incomparable piece. The third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments; and the mystery of the quarternary, and quinary number opened; with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in a planetary hour both day and night; with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendent, fitted for magical uses; as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses. Whereunto is added a neccessary [sic] tract, shewing how to judge of a disease by the affliction of the moon, upon the sight of the patients urine, with an example; also you are taught how to erect a figure of heaven for any time given. By W.W. Philosophus; student in the coelestial sciences.
Uniform title
Occult physick, or The three principles in nature anatomized by a philosophical operation
Created/published
London : Printed by Tho. Leach, for H. Marsh, at the Princes Arms in Chancery Lane, and for W. Palmer, at the Palm Tree near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1660.
Description
[12], 160 p., [1] leaf of plates : port., diagram ; (8vo)
Associated name
W. W. (William Williams), author.
Note
W.W. = William Williams.
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate).
A variant of the edition without "H. Marsh" as additional bookseller in imprint.
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate).
A variant of the edition without "H. Marsh" as additional bookseller in imprint.
ESTC staff note
Pagination above assumes quire ²A² (errata, addenda, table of content) is bound after quire ¹1A.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), W2784A
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R228281
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R228281
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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W2784.2
Folger-specific note
190972. Bound in contemporary calf; re-backed. Imperfect: lacking ²A² and port. With a bookseller's catalogue entry for this copy pasted on back paste-down. Mutilated and repaired at head, affecting some headlines. Provenance: autograph of John LeJeune; bookplate of Joseph Lyon Miller, M.D.