Miracles and Mysteries of Chemistry and Medicine

moreover I wished to give this work of
mine to the public light; the sole cause is the public
benefit: to which end many friends
urged me to look, and they requested
its publication. Nor is it unknown to the more learned
in what a great whirlpool original: "charybdi," referencing the mythical sea monster Charybdis from the Odyssey, used here to describe the chaotic or dangerous state of contemporary pharmacy. today’s
Pharmacists original: "Pharmacopæi," those who prepared and sold medicinal drugs. labor, selling those laborious and
numerous recipes of theirs, prepared in a crude
manner; if we present some better
ones than those: thanks be to Apollo The Greek god of healing and father of the medicinal deities mentioned hereafter.:
to the one father of Hygieia The goddess of health. and Panacea The goddess of universal remedy., to God,
thrice best, thrice greatest. Likewise, may he
favor you, Reader; and you me. Farewell.