Antimonial Pharmacy

discourse on gems and their operations; and seeing that my labors have been so well-received, this has given me the courage to set about this extraordinary task of composing and ordering this triumph of these two Heroes—that is, Antimony and Mercury In alchemical literature, "Heroes" refers to the primary, powerful substances or metallic principles that the author considers most important for his work.—having made use of the most authoritative authors who hold a place in Chemistry. Here, I will not call myself an author, nor even a translator, because from all those whom I have utilized for the composition of this triumph, I have not taken their words to the letter original: "ad litteram." The author is explaining that he is not just copying or translating, but synthesizing information. as the proverb says, but rather I have made use of the art; that is, I have acted as the distiller The author uses the "distiller" as a metaphor for an editor or compiler: just as a chemist extracts the essence from raw materials, he has extracted the essential wisdom from many books., and I have extracted the