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| Its three fundamental principles. | 51 |
| Its wonderful virtues. | 54, 59 |
| Even a hundredth part of them is not fully known. | 141 |
| No benefit in it for the human body without proper preparation. | 54 |
| Yet in its raw original: "crude" state it fattens pigs original: "Swine"; how. | 86 |
| When prepared in different ways, it has various effects. | 87 |
| It is an immediate help for wounds. | 121 |
| Pharmacists original: "Apothecaries" rebuked original: "reprehended". | 45 |
| Why some arts are suppressed. | 136 |
| The artist and the fire original: "Vulcan"; the Roman god of fire, used here to represent the alchemical furnace or the transformative power of heat must work in harmony. | 16 |
| Artists harass, distort original: "wrest", and torture antimony. | 18 |
| The Arcanum A secret remedy or the "inner essence" of a substance in alchemy. of antimony. | 121 |
| Its use and virtues. | same page original: "ibid."; Latin abbreviation for "ibidem," meaning the same page as the previous entry. |
| The author’s defense original: "Apology"; here meaning a formal justification of his work and methods. | 106, 107 |
| His pilgrimage. | 126 |
| His prayer. | 34, 45, 146. |
| Why he introduced simple original: "rude" examples. | 86 |
| Why he speaks plainly. | 122 |
| His Balsam of Life; what it is. | 134 |
| His parable. | 143 |
| His self-restraint original: "Continency". | 152 |
| Balsam of Antimony. | 107 |
| Its virtues. | 108 |
| Balsam for wounds; its use. | 122 |
| Of antimony and other ingredients. | 123 |
| Vegetable calcination The process of reducing a substance to ash or powder through intense heat; "vegetable" refers to the use of plant matter.; what it is. | 25 |
| Of antimony. | 62 |