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abor Sophiæ is Paradise, or another world.
Lac Virginis is Mercuriall water.
Lapis is taken for any fixt thing.
Lapis Philosophorum is the highest vertue of all terrene things, giving tincture.
Lapsus Demotinus is a suddaine death, more dangerous then an Apoplexy.
Laterium are capitall lees which Sope-boilers use, of which Chirurgions make their causticke called Lapis infernalis.
Lato is copper tinged with lapis calaminaris into a golden colour.
Laudanum is a compound medicine made of Gold, Corall, Pearle, &c. by Paracelsus.
Laudina is Angelica.
Laxa Chimolea is salt growing to stones.
Laxativa are medicines working upwards, and downwards.
Leffa is called the predestination of hearbs.
Leffas is an occult boiling vapour of the earth, by which hearbs and plants grow.
Lemures are spirits of the Element of Aire, which Heathen think to bee ghosts of men departed.
Lephante, or Lephantes is the first kind of Tartar, or Bole, holding the midle betwixt stones, & clay.
Lethargyrium in Paracelsus is the spume of Mercury, or of Silver, or of Lead, which is separated in their purifying, and purging.
Lethargius is the finder of Mines.
Limbus in Paracelsus is the great and universall world, the seed, and first matter of man.
Liquidum de resoluto, is that which is liquid of its own nature.
Liquor is many times taken for oyle, when the name of the thing of which it is a Liquor, is put to it.
Liquor Aquilegius is destilled Wine.
Liquor essentialis is that humour which is turned into flesh, and bloud.
Liquor herbarum is made of hearbs pounded and pressed, and digested.
Liquor Mercurii is the balsome of things, in which the vertue of curing or healing consists.
Liquor Mumiæ is the fat of a Man.
Liquor Mumiæ de gummi is oyle of Gumme.
Liquor salis is the balsome of Nature, by which the body is preserved from putrefaction.
Locus vitæ is the seat of the mind or soul.
Locustæ are tops of boughs of trees, as yet tender and green.
Lorindt is the commotion of waters, or a harmony made by them.
Ludus is a medicine that cures the stone by dissolving of it.
Lumbrici Nitri are worms found in the earth, or mud, so called for their slipperinesse.
Luna is Silver.
Luna compacta is Quicksilver.
Lunaria is the Sulphur of Nature.
Lustrum is the creame of Milk.