(13-11-2017, 04:10 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... The tent+mountain/stream composition seems to me likely to represent something different from tents and possibly from mountains too.
At least a connection from alchemical, "liquid streams" from the mountains to balneology would be conceivable. The study of metallic, mineral and sulfur spas ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) was a kind of "secondary discipline" of alchemy. At least there was a clear overlap of the fields of work. It was not about transmutation, but about the "analysis" of spa waters:
Quote:Debus, A. G., The Chemical Philosophy, Dover Publications, 2013, p. 14–18
Medieval Medical Chemistry: The Analysis of Spa Waters
Closely assosiated with the medieval interest in transmutation was a parallel trend that led to the employment of chemical techniques in medicine. One significant area of interest was the analysis of spa waters. The importance of tests for the purity of ...
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In the above-mentioned "De balneis et thermis naturalibus omnibus Italiae" of Savonarola, the different spa waters are presented in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ( including sulfur ).


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