Agricola, Georg, De re metallica Libri XII, Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinae, ac omnia ..., 1556
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              <s id="N142E1">Reſtat de malis & morbis metallicorum ac de modis quibus ſibi ab ipſis
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              cauere poſſunt: nam ſemper maiorem rationem ualetudinis ſuſtentandæ,
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              quàm lucri faciendi habere conuenit, ut liberè munerib. </s>
              <s id="N142E8">corporis fungi poſ
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              ſimus. </s>
              <s id="N142ED">Eorum
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              malorum alia affligunt artus, alia lædunt pulmones, par­
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              tim oculos, quæ dam denique homines interimunt. </s>
              <s id="N142F6">Aqua in quibus puteis
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              ineſt multa & frigidior crura uitiare ſolet: etenim frigus eſt
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              neruis. </s>
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              Sed foſſores ad eam rem ſatis altos perones ſibi comparent, qui crura tuean
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              tur ab aquarum frigore: cui
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              qui non paruerit, is magno afficietur
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                commodo</expan>
              ualetudinis: præſertim cùm uixerit ad ſenectutem. </s>
              <s id="N1430F">Contra uerò a­
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              liquæ fodinæ adeo ſiccæ ſunt, ut prorſus aqua careant: quæ ariditas maius
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              etiam malum dat operarijs: ſiquidem puluis, qui cietur & agitatur foſsioni­
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              bus, penetrans in aſperam uſque arteriam & pulmones, parit difficultatem an
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              helitus & uitium, quod
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              Græci nominant. </s>
              <s id="N1431E">Quod ſi uim corrodendi
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              habuerit, pulmones exulcerat, & tabem ingignit in corporibus: hinc in me­
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              tallis Carpati montis
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              ſunt mulieres, quæ
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              uiris nupſerunt: quos
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              omnes dira illa tabes immatura morte affecit. </s>
              <s id="N1432F">Aldebergi certe in Miſena in
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              fodinis reperitur pompholyx nigra, quæ uſque ad oſſa exedit uulnera, & ul­
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              cera. </s>
              <s id="N14336">Ferrum quoque corrodit: atque ob id claui earum caſarum omnes ſunt li­
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              gnei. </s>
              <s id="N1433B">Quin etiam cadmiæ quoddam genus eſt quod operariorum pedes, a­
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              quis madidos, itemque manus exedit: pulmones & oculos lædit. </s>
              <s id="N14340">Fodientes
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              igitur ſibi non modo perones comparent, ſed chirothecas etiam ad
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              uſque altas: & ueſicas laxas
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              faciei. </s>
              <s id="N1434F">Per has enim puluis neque trahetur ad
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              arteriam & pulmones, nec in oculos inuolabit: non diſſimiliter apud Roma
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              nos ſibi cauebant minij confectores, ne puluerem eius lethalem haurirent. </s>
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              Tum
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              anhelitus parit aer immobilis manens tam in puteo quàm
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              in cuniculo: cui malo remedia ſunt machinæ ſpiritales, quas paulò antè ex­
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              poſui. </s>
              <s id="N14362">Sed eſt aliud malum magis peſtiferum, quodque homini mox affert
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              necem: in quibus puteis, uel foſsis latentibus, uel cuniculis duricies
                <expan abbr="ſaxorũ">ſaxorum</expan>
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              igni frangitur, in his aer inficitur ueneno: ſiquidem uenæ & uenulæ
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                ſuræque</expan>
              ſaxorum exhalant ſubtile quoddam uirus, ignis ui expreſſum ex re­
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              bus metallicis alijsque foſsilibus: quod ipſum cum fumo ſubleuatur, non ali­
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              ter ac pompholyx, quæ in officinis, in quibus uenæ metallicæ
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              ,
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              ad ſuperiorem parietis partem adhæreſcit: id ſi ex terra euolare nequiuerit,
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              ſed deciderit in lacunas, atque eis innatauerit,
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              conflare ſolet. </s>
              <s id="N14383">Etenim
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              ſi quando aqua iactu lapidis aut alterius rei
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              fuerit, rurſus ex ipſis la­
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              cunis euolat: itaque ſpiritu ductum homines inficit: ſed idem magis efficit fu­
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              mus igni nondum extincto. </s>
              <s id="N14390">Corpora autem animantium iſto ueneno infe­
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              cta plerunque continuo turgeſcunt, & omnem motum ac ſenſum amittunt,
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              ſineque dolore intereunt. </s>
              <s id="N14397">Homines etiam ex puteis ſcalarum gradibus aſcen­
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              dentes, ubi uirus incrementum ſumpſerit, rurſus in eos decidunt: quia ma­
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              nus non faciunt ſuum officium globoſæque & rotundæ ipſis uidentur eſſe, i­
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              temque pedes. </s>
              <s id="N143A0">Aut ſi bona fortuna parumper læſi ex his malis euaſerint, palli
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              di ſunt & ſimiles mortuorum. </s>
              <s id="N143A5">Itaque tunc nemo in eam ipſam fodinam uel in
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              proximas deſcendat: aut ſi fuerit in eis, aſcendat ocyus. </s>
              <s id="N143AA">Prouidi certè ſoler­
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              tesque foſſores die Veneris ad ueſperam incendunt ſtruem
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              : nec ante </s>
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