Antimonial Pharmacy

quintessence original: quinta essenza—In alchemy, the "fifth essence" was the purest and most potent extract of a substance, stripped of all impurities., separat-
ing from it every obscurity, that is, elu-
cidating and unraveling original: desenigmando—the act of solving a riddle or "enigma."
every enigma, facilitating
everything that was pos-
sible in the operations original: operationi—referring to the practical chemical procedures or recipes in the book., ad-
ding where it was necessary
to add and diminishing
every superfluity; and I have adap-
ted it so vividly to my
style, that I can
without scruple claim it as my own,
but do not (for this I pray you)
blame me by saying that this
is stolen goods original: roba robata—a colloquial Italian phrase for plagiarism., because
be certain that there is no
one who has written anything
that has not first been
said or written by his predecessors original: antecesori,
and then all those
who steal in the manner
that I have done, certainly in