Croll, Oswald

Croll, Oswald. Oswaldus Crollius, Physician and Hermetic Philosopher, His preface to the reader. Of signatures, or a true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. rhttp //www.levitv.com/ alchemv/croll signatures.htmll. 

Crell, Lorenz F. Friedrich (1745-1816), 90 Croll, Oswald (1560-1609), 17, 147 Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik (1722-1765), 166... 

Corrosive Sublimate and Calomel. A method for preparing a rather pure mercurous chloride (calomel) was known to Parisian physicians before 1608 (83). Oswald Croll prepared it by a secret process, and Jean Beguin in his Tyrocinium Chymicum, which was published in 1608, described the process. This mild sublimate was made by rubbing corrosive sublimate with as much mercury as could be "killed or made to combine with it (240, 241, 242). Calomel, corrosive sublimate, and vermilion have been manufactured for centuries at Hankow, China (243). 

Oswald Crollius, or Croll, (1580-1609) was another influential advocate of Paracelsus, and a contributor to the chemical remedies. His Bascilica Chemica, Frankfurt, 1608, often republished, was his most popular work. It contained an exposition of the teachings of Paracelsus, a treatise on materia medica in which he emphasizes the chemical medicines, and a treatise on the doctrine of Signatures, a subject also treated in the Paracelsan literature, and which assumes that medicinal plants or other sources... 

The same example was given in Oswald Croll, Basilica Chymica (1609) see Hannaway, The Chemists, 37. 

Plate 18. Oswald Croll, Basilica Chymica, Frankfurt, no date (1629, first ed. 1608). The same design was used in the Latin edition, 1611. By permission of Thames Hudson, Ltd. 

As we have seen, part of Hartmann s laboratory instruction focused on recipes found in Oswald Croll s Royal Chemistry. It was, in fact, partly through Hartmann s notes to a later edition of the text that Croll s work became familiar to chemists thereafter. At... 

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Criminals hanged at the gallows, or beheaded rebels, were also recommended see Pachter, Magic into Science, 53 and Walter Pagel, Paracelsus An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance (Basel Karger, 1958), 55. The Paracelsan enthusiast Oswald Croll is yet more specific to be most effective, mummia should be prepared from the... 

FIGURE 96. Title page of the Basilica Chymica (Frankfurt, 1611) by Oswald Croll, perhaps the major early source of Paracelsan chemical lore. 

Figure 96 is from the 1611 edition of Basilica Chymica, by Oswald Croll, which was printed in subsequent editions for 100 years. It is credited for passing the knowledge of Paracelsus and his followers into the seventeenth century. 

At the beginning of the seventeenth century Joseph Duchesne and Oswald Croll adopted the view that medical spirits and spirits extracted by chemists had the same source, namely, the spirit of the world. On this basis they stated that the only active remedies were those prepared by using spirits extracted by distillation. ... 

For extra emphasis, Helmont gave the abyss mythological names used by the chemists Petrus Severinus, Oswald Croll and Daniel Sennert The Night of Orpheus, the Darkness of Pluto. .. the Oromasis of the Persians, the Iliad of Paracelsus. ... 

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