spagyric

• “Examine it by spagyric art, and you will find that it is nothing else than a _nitrous salt_, which is dilated in the water.”

  Manures and the principles of manuring

• “As Paracelsus himself says of the true "spagyric physicians," who were the alchemists of his period.”

  Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

• “In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge.”

  The Evolution of Modern Medicine

• “He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel.”

  The Hill of Dreams

• “That old spagyric raven is not the man fit for such a beauty, and I am rather inclined to take an interest in her myself.”

  The Queen Pedauque

• “Zosimus, sir, Zosimus of Panopolis, was a learned Greek, who flourished at Alexandria in the third century of the Christian era, and wrote treatises on the spagyric art.”

  The Queen Pedauque

• “Here are some of my doings," he said, "which are proof enough that the spagyric art is not the dream of an empty brain.”

  The Queen Pedauque

• “Let us add that at that epoch the edict of Charles interdicting spagyric labours under pain of prison and hanging, and the bull, _Spondent pariter quas non exhibent_, which Pope”

  Là-bas

• “Stuff and nonsense all these globes and powders, with all the other follies of the cabala and the spagyric art. ”

  The Queen Pedauque

• “There was in the German town of Staufen a spagyric philosopher who had, like yourself, connection with a Salamander.”

  The Queen Pedauque

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