The Chemical Hippocrates

DEDICATION:

Most High Princes, I offer this small little work original: "opusculum," a humble term for a short book or treatise, by its title alone, so that if you do not love it; at least you might continue to favor it, Your Highnesses:

Venice, on the Ides In the Roman calendar, the Ides of May falls on the 15th day of the month of May, 1666.