Antimonial Pharmacy

I say [this] because in them alone
are enclosed all the
properties and virtues that
are universally found in all
metals, minerals,
animals, and vegetables,
as through the union
of such a great number of things and
venerable authors, you, oh
kind reader, will be able to
easily recognize here,
as well as weightily
judge whether what
they say proceeds from the good
zeal of these Anti-chemists original: Antichimisti—The author’s derogatory term for traditional physicians who opposed the "new" chemical medicine (iatrochemistry) in favor of strictly herbal, Galenic remedies.
toward their neighbor,
or rather from their perfidy
and wicked envy of the
public good and utility;
since with Antimony
alone, and also with Mercury alone,
one can create universal
remedies for all the infir- The text cuts off here; the catchword "mit-" indicates the word completes on the next page as infermità (infirmities or illnesses).