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...had led him in perfecting them, leaving all previous insight far behind. This same work of stupendous labor, which I was the first to bring into Germany, was seen by those most excellent physicians, Mr. Johann Georg Volckamer, President of the Leopoldine Academy of Nature Curios The Academia Naturae Curiosorum, now known as the Leopoldina, is one of the oldest scientific societies in the world, founded in 1652 in the Holy Roman Empire., who was at that time most distinguished but now—by the command of the Divine Will, alas!—has been taken from human affairs; and also that "Hippocrates of Leipzig," Mr. Johann Bohn Johann Bohn (1640–1718) was a famous German physician and professor at Leipzig, known for his work in forensic medicine and physiology.. I became so well known to the former [Volckamer] that, after I shared

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Thomas Sydenham’s Complete Process for Curing Almost All Diseases original: Processu integro in curandis morbis fere omnibus. Sydenham was a highly influential English physician often called the "English Hippocrates."—which Germany had not yet seen, and which I understand was subsequently included in the Miscellanea The Miscellanea Curiosa was the first scientific journal dedicated to medicine and natural history, published by the Leopoldine Academy. of the Nature Curios—he enrolled me into the ranks of this Illustrious Society and honored me with the name Theophilus It was a tradition for members of the Leopoldine Academy to be given a "cognomen" or academic name; Theophilus is Greek for "Lover of God.". To the other [Bohn], I publicly profess with an honorable preface that I surely owe very much in that art which constitutes Medicine, and in the devoted study of Chemistry and Surgery. But concerning Philalethes A reference to Eirenaeus Philalethes, the pseudonym of a famous 17th-century alchemist whose true identity remained a mystery to his contemporaries., there is an obscure rumor everywhere,