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Here, at least, I can follow you, to a certain extent, for here we get back into the legitimate realm of physiology." "And possibly," said Faber, "we may find hints to guide us to useful examination, if not to complete solution of problems that, once demonstrated, may lead to discoveries of infinite value, hints, I say, in two writers of widely opposite genius, Van Helmont and Bacon.
In the "Lay of the Last Minstrel" we find the following: French edition, 1668, English translation, same year. For a discussion on the author of the weapon salve see Van Helmont, who gives the various formulas. Highmore says the "powder is a Zaphyrian salt calcined by a celestial fire operating in Leo and Cancer into a Lunar complexion."
Van Helmont, in the same pursuit, discovered the properties of gas; Geber made discoveries in chemistry which were equally important; and Paracelsus, amidst his perpetual visions of the transmutation of metals, found that mercury was a remedy for one of the most odious and excruciating of all the diseases that afflict humanity.
What if there be one certain means of recruiting that principle; and what if that secret can be discovered?" "Pshaw! The old illusion of the mediaeval empirics." "Not so. But the mediaeval empirics were great discoverers. You sneer at Van Helmont, who sought, in water, the principle of all things; but Van Helmont discovered in his search those invisible bodies called gases.
At the present day, however, we even more commonly use another name for this peculiar liquid namely, "alcohol," and its origin is not less singular. The Dutch physician, Van Helmont, lived in the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century in the transition period between alchemy and chemistry and was rather more alchemist than chemist.
Van Helmont, indeed, was a sincere believer of Divine Revelation.
Besides Nicolas Flamel, who really seems to have succeeded in the 'great work, the chemist Van Helmont, in the eighteenth century, received from an unknown man a quarter of a grain of philosopher's stone and with it transformed eight ounces of mercury into gold.
"But if one observes badly?" Vaucorbeil took this phrase for an allusion to Madame Bordin's skin eruption a story about which the widow had made a great outcry, and the recollection of which irritated him. "To start with, it is necessary to have practised." "Those who revolutionised the science did not practise Van Helmont, Boerhaave, Broussais himself."
He turned away, laughing; and I, knowing nothing of Van Helmont, could not tell whether he was in jest or in earnest. At dinner some remark was made about the sermon, I think by our host. "You don't call that the gospel!" said Mrs. Cathcart, with a smile. "Why, what do you call it, Jane?" "I don't know that I am bound to put a name upon it. I should, however, call it pantheism."
His discourse savored of the weighty doctrines of Hippocrates, diluted by the subtle speculations of Galen, reinforced by the curious comments of the Arabian schoolmen as they were conveyed in the mellifluous language of Fernelius, blended, it may be, with something of the lofty mysticism of Van Helmont, and perhaps stealing a flavor of that earlier form of Homoeopathy which had lately come to light in Sir Kenelm Digby's "Discourse concerning the Cure of Wounds by the Sympathetic Powder."
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