Preface

can occur, then it will not be at all
difficult to find a great number of
actions within the same Refers to the human body, described as the "microcosm" on the previous page. to
bring forth, which correspond to the chem-
ical operations, such as the cir-
culation of fluids Circulation: In early medicine, this referred to the movement of humors or blood through the body, which was compared to the movement of liquids being heated and cooled in a chemist’s glass vessel.,
fermentation, filtration, and
distillation. From
this one can perceive how
useful this science is,
and how much one must labor
to ensure that it is made clearer
than it has been until now.
These are the very reasons
why I have brought this treatise
to light, in which one [finds]
not only the most important
chemical medicines briefly