Antimonial Pharmacy

quintessence In alchemy, the quintessence (the "fifth essence") is the purest and most powerful part of a substance, extracted through distillation., separating
from it every obscurity—that is, elu-
cidating and unraveling
every enigma, making
all the operations Technical alchemical procedures or laboratory steps. as easy
as possible; add-
ing where it was necessary
to add, and reducing
every superfluity; and I have adapt-
ed it so vividly to my own
style The original Italian "stille" (style) may also be a play on words with "stille" meaning "drops," sustaining the author's metaphor of himself as a distiller who collects wisdom drop by drop. that I may, without
scruple, claim it as my own. But
(for this I pray you) do not
blame me by saying that this
is stolen goods original: "roba robata." The author is preemptively defending himself against charges of plagiarism by arguing that all knowledge is built on the work of those who came before., because
rest assured that there is no-
one who has written a thing
that has not first been
said or written by their pre-
decessors; and finally, all those
who "steal" in the manner
that I have done, certainly in