The Long-Desired and Promised Chemical-Philosophical Touchstone

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Honored Reader.

Already in the year 1740,
the exceptionally
excellent and highly experienced
Mr. Hermann Fictuld—
who has rendered great service
to alchemy and its devotees—
published the first part of his so-titled
Touchstone of Chemical Writings,
namely the registry
of those persons and
writings of which something
was found in his
library,
who are known under the name
Hermetic Adept original: Adeptus Hermeticus; a master who has supposedly achieved the ultimate goal of alchemy, such as the Philosopher's Stone,
and who have earned merit for it, or