The Chemical Hippocrates

What use is it to hear the countless crowds of doctors
When a single medicine is sufficient for diseases?
When the ailing body has felt this within,
With strength regained, the man is restored to life.
The most learned Otto—the praise and glory of the Apolline art original: "Artis Apollineæ," referring to medicine, as Apollo was the Greek god of healing and the father of Asclepius.—teaches this to everyone with rare genius.

IV.

If you unlock the true gate, Chymist, you find hidden
Treasures, and you put poverty to flight;
Nor will you only be able to dispel poverty, but also those diseases
Which ravage the work of the divine finger A poetic reference to the human body as a creation of God..
The most learned Otto delivers the key with which you unlock the gate,
And he instructs you with his immense art.

V.

Hitherto true doctrines lay in darkness;
What use is it to have held a shadow instead of the truth?
But a new TITAN A common metaphor in this period for a person of great intellect who "illuminates" a field; also a reference to the Sun. who rises from the Adriatic Olympus A reference to Venice, situated on the Adriatic Sea, where Tachenius lived and practiced.
Will scatter the Cimmerian darkness original: "Cimmerias tenebras," a classical reference to a mythical land of perpetual mist and darkness. with his light.
O pure seeker, whoever you are who seeks the inner sanctum of truth,
BE PRESENT HERE, where the TITAN strikes everywhere with his rays.
If you continue to scatter your lights to the world, Titan,
Both poles, radiating light, shall sing of you.

VI.

Where am I being carried? Behold, most learned little book, go with me;
If you go with me, I shall not be alone.
Thus, with me shall go the most learned crowd of wise men,
All of whom you enclose within this small work.