Van Helmont, Jean Baptiste

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. [Three extracts], [http //web.lemovne.edu/ giunta/helmont.htmll. 

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Alchemy unveiled for the first time, the secret of the philosopher s stone is being openly explained / by Johannes Helmond translated into English and edited by Gerhard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich. Translated by Gerhard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich. Scarborough (ON) Merkur Pub Co, 1991. 182 p. 

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. Oriatrike, or physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life. Written by that most learned, famous, profound, and acute phylosopher, and chymical physitian,. 

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van. "Praecipiolum or the immature-mineral-electrum. The first metall which is the minera of mercury..." In Collectanea chymica, 45-69. London , 1684. 

Debus, Allen George. "The chemical debates of the seventeenth century the reaction to Robert Fludd and Jean Baptiste van Helmont." In Reason, experiment, and mysticism in the scientific revolution, eds. M.L. Righini Bonelli and W.R. Shea, 19-47. New York Science History, 1975. 

Devonshire. Doubleday, Doran Company, Inc., Garden City. 1928. van Helmont, Jean Baptiste. Oriatrike or Physick Refined. For Lodowick Woyd, London. 1662. 

Sometimes, then, apart from conceiving of illness and its treatment in new ways, following in the footsteps of Paracelsus meant to be of the opinion that the best way to know the body and to understand its functioning was by means of chemistry. This aspect of what later became known as iatrochemistry developed in the seventeenth century within the writings of numerous authors. A few deserve special attention however, one in particular should be discussed at this point. This is the Brussels-born physician and chemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1579-1644). 

Van Helmont, Jean Baptiste. 1667 4th ed. Ortus Medicinae, ed. Francisco Mercurio van Helmont. Lyon Joan. Ant. Huguetan et GuUlielmi Barbier. 

Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1577-1644), founder of the latrochemical School, proposed that acid might be a mineral acid, such as nitric or hydrochloric acid. He produced spiritus salis marini-spints of sea salt (hydrochloric acid)-by distillation of salt and clay and noted that it could dissolve human kidney stones (duelech) in much the same manner as juice from the stomach of a bird. 

Lady Anne was a Rosicrucian, active in Hardib s circle. She presided over the most important esoteric centre of the day, at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire, and maintained friendships with Henry More the Cambridge Platonist, and Franz van Helmont, son of Jean Baptiste. She was the leading woman philosopher of the seventeenth century, and was influenced by Hermeticism and Neoplatonism. 

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