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ICTERITIA RUBEA

Rulandus: Erysipelas.

IDAM

Rulandus: Victuals, Food.

IDIOTAE

Rulandus: are the Despisers of the True Arts, although they may be most able professors of false ones.

IDROAGIRA

Rulandus: Alkaline Water.

IDRAOGIROS

Rulandus: A Dung-hill used as a Furnace.

IFFIDES

Rulandus: White Lead, Ashes of Lead.

IGNIS

Rulandus: is, according to some opinions, the Oil which comes to the surface in distillation.

IGNIS

Rulandus: Fire for the Stone of the Philosophers.
1. Bernhard says he would have preferred to reveal it; they say it should be made with dung, lamps, or coals. The first degree takes place in water, the second in ashes, the third in sand, the fourth in iron, or in the flame.
2. Rosarius says: The heat of dung operates in digestion; the bath is useless. Some will have it that ashes should be put into the bath, and if the fire is to be increased, sand must be put therein.
3. They compare the rule of the fire to the four seasons of the year. Aurora says: Make a dampish fire; digest and coct it steadily, without letting it flicker or boil over; skilfully enclose all round with air, so that nothing may burn, alter, or penetrate. So also says Trevisan.
4. The first grade of the fire lasts until the white appears, and takes place with one lamp in three months. The next takes place until the white breaks up, with two wicks in the space of three months. The third until the white is fixed; the fourth until the end of three months.
5. The flame must not touch the cask.
6. The glass must not be taken out until all is ready. Let not others deceive you.
7. When you have decided to put in the matter, the glass and the matter must he warm; then shake the whole effectually together, so that it may sink to the bottom; then seal it.
8. In the distillation the alembic must be of glass, and covered at all joints.
9. Trevisan says: Cook it so that the elements may remain, and regulate it so that the water may not be destroyed. Regulate the earth 5o that the air may not be destroyed. The ash is a dead thing and cannot be raised up. But the calx can be raised up.

IGNIS ALGIR

Rulandus: is a very powerful Fire.

IGNIS CALOR

Rulandus: Caloric is either natural or artificial.

IGNIS CLARE ARDENS

Rulandus: Clear burning Fire, is Sulphur.

IGNIS ELEMENTARIS

Rulandus: is Sulphur, but not vulgar sulphur.

IGNIS EXSTINCTUS

Rulandus: Extinguished Fire, is Sulphur deprived of its virtue.

IGNIS PERSICUS

Rulandus: Persian Fire, is an Ulcer torturing with a fiery heat.

IGNIS PRUINUS ADEPTUS

Rulandus: Adeptic Frozen Fire, is Quintessence of Wine, Spirit of Wine, rectified with Tartar.

IGNIS LEONIS

Rulandus: Fire of the Lion, Elemental Fire, Aether, called also Pyr, Ethos, Jupiter Argos, names for the element of fire.
The four grades of fire must be studied by operators, for so is fire distributed, there being not one grade merely at the crowd conceive ; so also the beginning, middle, and end of these stages must be considered, as they were observed by the primeval philosophers. They must be appreciated, however, not by the senses only, but by their effect in their proper subjects, and by judgment joined to the perceptions of sense, and chiefly of sight and touch. The first grade is very slow, and is like an inactive lukewarmness; it is called the heat of a tepid bath, of excrement, of digestion, of circulation, etc. This grade is shown to the touch when the finger of a sensitive man can stand it without begetting any acute feeling of heat. Of this nature is the vapourous fire of the philosophers which is likened to the warmth generated by a fowl when hatching its young, or of a man rightly constituted by nature. It is generally as follows: such as is yielded by a furnace of a gently kindled vapour-bath, or such as is that of an earthenware melting-pot placed on a furnace, or of a vapour-bath placed in a sound vessel over a moderate heat. The second grade is fiercer, yet such that it is safe to touch, nor does it injure the hand. They call it the heat of the ashes, because it is produced by a fire kindled under a cinder-pan. Cinders on account of their fineness do not produce much air. The third grade will burn the hand, and is compared to boiling sand or iron filings; it is called the fire of sand or of iron plates. The fourth is the highest grade, and is generally the most destructive. It is the reverberatory fire, and a living flame is produced from wood or coals easily influenced by the bellows. These grades when we refer to their effects in certain cases differ very much. The grade which is last in that of vegetables is first in antimony; but the first grade may be understood as the heat of a bath. Nevertheless, in the operation of the bath, there may be all four grades; the first when heat is produced with a little water, the second when it is very fierce, the third when it rages, the fourth when it destroys by extreme ebullition.

IGNIS SAPIENTUM

Rulandus: Fire of the Wise, is warm Horse Dung.

IGNITIO

Rulandus: is Calcination, the Reduction of Bodies by the powerful action of fire into Calx. It is also Combustion and Reverberation.

ILECH CRUDUM

Rulandus: Crude Ilech, is a composition of the first matter of the three prime principles
Mercury, Salt and Sulphur
whereof all things are composed.

ILECH MAGNUM

Rulandus: is the Ascendant or Star of Medicine, which we receive with the medicine, wherein it is concealed ; as the superior stars in the firmament, so the inferior in man. It is given in medicine, but it is also implanted in man.

ILECH PRIMUM

Rulandus: is Principle or Beginning. Called also Ileias and Ileadus.

ILECH SUPRA NATURALE

Rulandus: Supernatural Ilech, or Primal Ilech of the Stars, is a supercelestial conjunction and union of the stars of the firmament with the stars of inferior things.

ILEIDOS

Rulandus: is Elemental Air, the Firmament, Heaven. In man, it is the Spirit which permeates every member.

ILIASTER

Rulandus: signifies in general the Occult Virtue of Nature, by which all thing increase, are nourished, multiply and quicken, concerning which consult Paracelsus in his book of Meteoric Generation. But it is understood variously concerning the elements and concerning man. In the elements it is the Vegetative Essences of Nature, which are fourfold, according to the number of the elements, and it is called Chaos.

ILIASTER, ELIASTER

or

ILIADUM

Rulandus: is the first chaos of the matter of all things, constituted of Sulphur, Salt and Mercury. There is nothing in the wide nature of things which does not consist of this triplicity, and these are the three principles of Theophrastus which are discovered by spagyric analysis. We find nothing outside this triad which exists in each of its three components in each element. Fernelius comments on them in his Medicine of Inherent Moisture. Of these also the ancients treated, and they were not therefore discovered by Theophrastus, but he recalled them when they were forgotten from darkness into light. It is quadruple, we have seen, in the four elements. There is the chaos of earth, the chaos of water, the chaos of air, and the chaos of fire. There are also four Iliastri of men, constituting long life. The first, or implanted, is the span of life, even life itself or its balsam in man.
The second Iliaster, prepared Iliaster, is the span of life, and the life itself, which we derive from the elements or from elementary things.
The third Iliaster is the prepared span of the balsam which we derive from the quintessence of things.
The fourth, or great, Iliaster is the passage of the mind or soul into the other world, as took place with Enoch, Elias, and others.

IMAGINATIO

Rulandus: is the Star in Man, the Celestial or Supercelestial Body.

IMAGINES

Rulandus: Images, are Effigies in Wax or Metal, wherein the celestial virtues operate.

IMBIBERE

Rulandus: To Imbibe, is to thicken by rubbing, polishing, etc.

IMBIBITIO

Rulandus: is Ablution, when a liquid joined to a body is made light, and, finding no exit retreats into the body, and washes it so long with frequent lustrations, until it is wholly coagulate therewith, and is unable to rise further, but the whole remains fixed. This assuredly is a philosophical operation, nor does it yield its secret to the vulgar.

IMMERSIVA CORROSIO

Rulandus: takes place when bodies are plunged in other substances, and reduced to a calx. It is either humid or dry.

IMPRESSIONES

Rulandus: Impressions, Seals, or Signatures are invisible fruits of the stars of inferiors, not of sun and moots.

IMPURUM ALCALI

Rulandus: is Froth of Alcali, which is carried off in repurging after building up.

IMPURUM TARTARI

Rulandus: A Rough Salt, Dregs of Tartar.

IN GLOBULOS DISSOLVERE

Rulandus: To Melt into Globules.

IN MARMORE VEL IN MARMARIO TERERE

Rulandus: To Rub upon a Marble Slab.

INANIMATI

Rulandus: are the Pygmies.

INCARNATIVA

Rulandus: of Surgeons are Medicaments for contracting the skin over wounds, or Flesh Astringents.

INCERATIO

Rulandus: is the combination of moisture with a dry matter to the consistence of soft wax by a gradual blending. It is hence called a waxing over. There is also an imbibition performed by irrigation, the dry substance absorbing the moist. This is also the nutrition of physicians, in which the gum sarcocolla, litharge, and other things are absorbed by moisture, and become suitable for use.

INCIBIA

Rulandus: Graves walled over or covered with stones.

INCINERATIO

Rulandus: is an Ignition converting bodies into ashes by means of a powerful fire. We speak of vegetables or animals as incinerated, but the same operation performed on minerals we describe (in chemical language) as reduction to a calx.

INCINERATIO

or

SCOURING

Rulandus: When the black begins to yield, and the matter to whiten like ashes, then fire and water, or earth and water, combine; the water disappears, earth increases, till all is parched, dry, and like powder.

INCLINATIO

Rulandus: Inclination is the bent of Nature, or the disposition which indicates the nature of a man.

INCORPORATIO

Rulandus: Incorporation is Commingling, in which things moist are immediately blended with things dry into a conglomerate mass. But this is not done by a slow imbibing, but the whole fluid is at once poured on in sufficient quantity to produce a paste, whence the operation is called impacting, or kneading, or by others subaction and pounding. Incorporated substances are, however, left for digestion by means of heat, so that by mutual action and passion a common mingling may obtain.

INCUBA

Rulandus: is the Bride of the Sun.

INCUBUS

Rulandus: is a Nocturnal Demon which tempts and deceives women in sleep, as if they had carnal intercourse therewith.

INDICUM SAL, SAL GEMMAE

Rulandus: is Cappadocia Gemma, a Precious Stone found in Phrygia and polished in Cappadocia.

INDICUM

Rulandus: Indigo, is a Spume of two species, namely, Native Indigo, which is found to exist spontaneously in certain Indian reeds. It is called Indigo Stone by painters, but erroneously, for it is not a stone. Adarca, a thick salt scum which collects about reeds in marshy places, is very similar to indigo, but it is afterwards treated by art, whereas indigo is natural. There is, however, a second species made by dyers ; it is of purple colour, and is manufactured in caldrons. This is the better kind. It has a blue appearance, and is called by the Germans Woadflower, or Indian colour. It i slightly astringent, bursts, purges, and reduces ulcers. Pliny (1. 35, c. 6) remarks that natural indigo is as to its nature and constituents undetermined. The manufactured is produced from the black scum which adheres to brazen or copper caldrons. Others affirm that it is simply the sap of herbs, with which clothes are dyed, that they call indigo, that is woad, which is otherwise domestically familiar in Thuringia, where it is much used in dyes. This is properly a manufactured indigo, but there is also a wild woad. Consult Dioscorides, 1. 2.

INDICUS COLOR

Rulandus: Indigo Blue.

INFLUENTIA

Rulandus: Influx; when by thought and imagination we attract to us the virtues and natures of the planets and superior stars. It is two-fold, that which derives to us through the medium of created things, such as the influx of heaven through the firmament, and that which is given to us immediately, that is, by God alone ; the second is supernatural as the first is artificial, natural, and moral.

INFLUENTIA NATURALIS

or

NATURAL INFLUX

Rulandus: is that which is poured down by the superior stars of the firmament, in accordance with natural law, into or upon inferior things, whereby they govern and rule through inclination in men, animals, etc., and through potencies and efficacies in insentient things. Hence we learn that this inclination is a certain brute force and magnetic attraction, which i easy to resist and withstand by moral influence; being assisted by the divine inspiration in any cases of special difficulty.

INFUNDIBULUM

or

FUNNEL

Rulandus: is a Metallic Vessel of oblong shape, having a handle, hollow within, for the reception of molten metal, Its configuration is like that of a staff or rod. The Germans call it a Gutter or Dunghill.

INFUNDIRIN

Rulandus: To Soak or Moisten.

INGESTORES

Rulandus: A Carrier on the Mountains.

INHUMATIO

Rulandus: Humectation in a Dung-bath.

INHUMARE

Rulandus: To Bury under the Earth, to Putrefy, or also to Reduce into Earth. When the solution takes place, the old man is buried in a bath; then he is covered with blackness, and remains hidden without any lustre. The sun has entered a gloomy grave.

INSIDERE IN BACILLO

Rulandus: To Set on a Cross-beam secured by a rope.

INSIDERE IN CORIO

Rulandus: To Sit down on Leather.

INSTRUMENTUM CUM INDICE MENSORUM ALPINORUM

Rulandus: An Indicating Compass.

INSTRUMENTUM FERREUM, QUOD MACHINE FOLLES COMPRIMIT

Rulandus: An Iron Instrument which works the bellows.

INSTRUMENTUM FERREUM, QUO TERRA VERBATUR

Rulandus: An Iron Instrument with which the earth is beaten.

INSTRUMENTUM METALLICUM, SIGNIFICANS MUNDI PARTES

Rulandus: The Metallic Instrument which shows the quarters of the world, i.e., the Compass.

INTERIOR MURUS FORNACIS

Rulandus: The Inner Wall of the Furnace; Lining.

INTER VENIUM

Rulandus: A Wedge-shaped Rock.

IOS

Rulandus: is a Poison, or Drug.

IOTA

or

IORA

Rulandus: is a Green Branch.

IPACEDES

Rulandus: Hairy Beard.

IRIS

Rulandus: is a Stone similar to crystal, and according to some is the Root or Foundation of Crystal; the hexagonal Iris is found frequently in Arabia, and, according to Pliny (1. 37, c. 9), in a certain island of the Red Sea. It is found in our own country in the mountains and rivers of Westphalia between Treves and the Rhine. It is maintained to be the native Cadmia of Galen, which we have treated under its proper head. They also say that the latter is hexagonal, although a round one is sometimes found, even as the holes in the centre of a honeycomb are hexagonal, and at the edges round. It is an exceedingly dry stone and very fine in constitution. Some say that it is composed of the essential moisture of water, which laves the matter of the stone, the same being generated in a red slime. It is called Iris because in the middle there are defined, rainbow-like lines; or because when shone upon by the sun indoors, it sends forth the colours and appearance of the rainbow upon the nearest walls. So testifies Pliny, and he adds that there are certain rough sides and unequal corners, which, when exposed out of doors to the sun, send forth rays which are reflected upon each other, but some also illuminate surrounding objects. He says also that an Iris like wax, but very hard, is found in Persia, but it has not the quality of the gem which he calls Zeros, a crystal encircled by a line. Compare the Demon Stone of Albertus, which was of two colours like the Iris, was good in fevers, and an antidote to poison.

IVA ARTHETICA VEL MUSCATA

Rulandus: A Medicine for Lame Limbs.

IVA POTABILIS

Rulandus: A Draught that restores Soundness to Lame Limbs.