Miracles and Mysteries of Chemistry and Medicine

...various works, which are eager to come out; and among them leading the way: several hundreds original: "Centuriæ aliquot." In early modern scholarship, a "Century" was a common way to organize a collection of one hundred observations, paradoxes, or medical cases. of Philosophical and Medical Paradoxes; some small Anatomical works; a Treatise on Cauteries original: "de Cauteriis." Cautery involved using heat or caustic chemicals to sear tissue, treat wounds, or stop bleeding.; a Book on Opium and Opiate Laudanums original: "de Opio & Laudanis Opiatis Liber." Opiate "laudanums" were various medicinal preparations of opium used as painkillers and sedatives., etc. Would that they be for some public good! Indeed, I try more than I achieve; I wish, as much as I am able, to be of benefit to the public. I profess this openly. Yet results do not entirely fail every effort, nor does the power to act fail every will.

As for you, let me know more clearly what you are doing now, and especially how your health is: and remain toward me as you have shown yourself to be; be certain that from Bartholin The author, Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680), here refers to himself in the third person, a common formal convention in Latin correspondence of this period. the same loyalty will be yours: Greetings from my heart; I who desire the best for you from my heart: and greet your father, a most distinguished senator original: "senatorem amplissimum." Likely referring to a member of a high-ranking city council or administrative body., and no small lover and investigator of nature original: "indagatorem." This implies a person who actively researches or observes the natural world, similar to a "naturalist.", on my behalf.