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Excerpts from Ortus medicinae, Id est, initia physicae inavidita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum, ultionem, ad vitam longam. .. (Amsterdam Elzevir, 1648), translated by John Chandler (as Oriatricke, or Physick Refined, the common Errors therein Refuted..., London 1662, 1664) and reprinted in Henry M. Leicester Herbert S. Klickstein, A Source Book in Chemistry, 1400-1900"... 

J. R. Glauber, Philosophische Oefen, Amsterdam, 1648 H. Bocrhaave, Elementa chemim, Lugduni Batavorum, 1732 R. Boyle, The Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy, Oxford, 1663 S. Hales, Vegetable Staticks, London, 1727 J. Priestley, Observations on Different Kinds of Air, London, 3. 208, 1779 J. B. van Helmont, Ortus medicines, Amsterdam, 68, 1648. 

J. B. van Helmont, Orialrike, or Physick Mefined, London, 1662 Ortus medicinal, Amsterdam, 1648 R. Boyle, Sceptical Ohymist, Oxford, 1661 Isaac Newton, Opticks, London, 1704 ... 

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

How ironic that Johann Baptist Van Helmont (1577-1644) refers to Dame Nature as the Proto-Chymist, for if ever there was a human protochemist it was he. His writings navigate the borders between science, pseudoscience, and superstition. Van Helmont was bom in Brussels but travelled extensively. The picture of Van Helmont (Figure 138, left) is from the Ortus Medicinae, compiled by his son the alchemist and polymath Franz Mercurius (Figure 138, right) and first published in 1648. 

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Fig. 15. Title page and p.370 (actually p.372) of van Helmont s Ortus medicinae"...

Van Helmont, JB (1652) Tria prima chymicorum. In Ortus medicinae, 2nd edition,... 

As LONG as chemistry retained its aura of secrecy and nu c that is, up to the seventeenth century, the study of the chemical compounds making up the biosphere had not even been considered. One may attribute the first step to Van Helmont who, in his work Ortus m ticinae, published in 1652, described carbonic anhydride as being present in intestinal gases, separated an alkaline substance from blood and attempted to resolve human urine into its constituents. It was necessary to await the development and elaboration of the idea of chemical compounds before Scheele, in 1775, succeeded in isolating uric acid from urinary calculi and Poulletier de la Salle, in 1782, extracted cholesterol from gall-stones with the aid of alcohol. 

Also thanks to Paul Wilkinson, Dr Martin Baggaley and staff at the Ortus Centre for their throughout the filming process. 

Bias Humanum 24, Ortus, pp. 183-84. For van Helmont, air plays a marginal part in the generation of vital spirits. See Bias Humanum K 51, ibid, p. 190. 

Joan Baptista van Helmont, Ortus Medicinae (Amsterdam, 1648) English translation by John Chandler, Oriatrike (hereafter Oriatrike) (London, 1662), p. 42, similarly p. 171. Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia (Oppenheim, 1617), vol. I, De macrocosmi historia, pp. 7-8 ((hereafter Mac, Hist,),... 

The word nucleus is the Latin term for kernel or nut. Philalethes uses it in his unfinished manuscript of the Vade mecum Philosophicum (British Library, MS Sloane 633, 107v). The term is also used by Van Helmont, as in the Ortus medicinae (Lyons, 1667), p. 43, 17 .. . interior Mercurii Nucleus, a dissolventibus non attingitur, multo minus terebratur. ... 

Van Helmont, Gas aquae, in Ortus medicinae (n. 40), 46, 10 Non intercedit enim essentiae mutatio, ubi sola est localis divisio partium extraversio. ... 

VAN HELMONT J.B. 1652. Opera omnia complexionum atque mistionum elementalium figmentum. (see Sutcliffe J.F. reference number 197) also In Ortus Medicinae, Amsterdam. 

Van Helmont, Jan Baptist (1648) Ortus Medicinae, Amsterdam, Elzevir, reprint Brussels, Culture et Civilisation, 1966. 

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