Arsenicum is the flashing of Metalls, or the salt of them, or of Saturne, which in some places is called Artanek, or Artanech.
Artetiscus is he that wants any member.
Arthoicum is red oyle, artificially extracted out of the rootes of Hearbs digested with bread in dung.
Asaphatum is an itch bred betwixt the skin, and the flesh, like worms: and if the skinne bee crushed, long threds with black heads come forth.
Ascendentia signa are called either the stars of the Firmament of heaven, or the sydereall spirits.
Asphaltum is a Bitumen extracted from the mudde of the earth, and water, and is like pitch.
Assala is called a Nutmeg.
Assaliæ vermes are those wormes which breed in wood, or betwixt two boards, and they are called Teredones.
Asthma is a disease of the lungs causing difficulty of breathing.
Astrum is in this place called the vertue and power got by the preparations of things as the star of Sulphur is its inflaming which is turned into most excellent oyle: so the star of salt is its resolution into water, or oyle, which thereby receives more vertues then it had before. The star of Mercury is its sublimation, by which it acquires a wonderfull power, and vertue, greater, and more subtile then its naturall.