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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682

"Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend"


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NOTES TO HYDRIOTAPHIA.
1. Just.
2. Destruction.
3. A chemical vessel made of earth, ashes, or burnt bones, and in
which assay-masters try their metals. It suffers all baser ones
when fused and mixed with lead to pass off, and retains only
gold and silver.
4. This substance known to French chemists by the name "adipo-cire,"
was first discovered by Sir Thomas Browne.
5. From its thickness.
6. Euripides.
7. Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Egyptian, Arabic defaced by the Emperor Licinius.
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NOTES TO LETTER TO A FRIEND.
1. Will not survive until next spring.
2. Wasting.
3. An eminent Italian Physician, lecturer in the University of Pavia,
died 1576. He was a most voluminous medical writer.
4. An eminent doctor and scholar who passed his time at Venice and
Padua studying and practising medicine, died 1568.


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