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The Table.
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| Of George Castriot. George Castriot (1405–1468), also known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian nobleman and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. | 77 |
| Of three of the author's brothers cured of the plague. | 127 |
| Honey, how prepared. | 43 |
| A corrosive poison original: "Venom" derived from it. | 42 |
| Hops, the vegetable salt of beer. | 25 |
I
| Idleness, condemned. | 118 |
| Influence of superiors In the worldview of the 1600s, "superiors" often referred to celestial bodies (planets and stars) that were believed to exert influence over "inferiors" (earthly objects and people). on inferiors. | 144 |
K
| Kings and princes, misinformed by doctors. | 32, 52 |
L
| Labor, necessarily required. | 81 |
| Those who avoid original: "shun" it do not do what they ought. | 125 |
| Liver of Antimony. original: "Liver of Antimony"; an alchemical term for a reddish-brown mixture of antimony sulfides and oxides, so named for its color. | 97 |
| Its medicinal properties and uses. original: "virtues" | 100 |
| Lead of Philosophers. An alchemical term referring to a purified form of lead or a symbolic substance used in the "Great Work" of transmutation. | 138 |
| Why the regulus is called lead. original: "Regulus"; in alchemy and metallurgy, this refers to the metallic button that settles at the bottom of a crucible after smelting an ore. | 139 |
| Love, treated as a disease, etc. | 150, 151 |
| Its sad effects. | 152 |
M
| Mars transmuted into Venus. In alchemical shorthand, "Mars" refers to iron and "Venus" refers to copper. | 101 |
| Matrix, peculiar to every element. original: "Matrix"; here referring to the environment, "womb," or origin point in which a specific substance is naturally formed. | 92 |
| The matter of all metals and minerals is one. A core alchemical belief that all metals share a single primary substance or "First Matter." | 49 |
| Medicine, ineffective original: "ineffectual" if not separated from its impurity. | 42 |
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