D E D I C A T I O N.

concerning this, before I
made it public, to learn [your opinion]:
And because I know that
Your Excellency original: U. E. (Uwe Edelheid); a formal honorific addressed to Dr. J. Roman a few years ago [saw]
a certain book, named Leiden Transactions, original: Acta Leidensia; a famous collection of chemical and medical experiments published by Christopher Love Morley
by Mr. Morley
Doctor of Medicine : was delivered to the learned
world, containing in itself
many experiments and operations
of Chemistry, original: Chimie the
which in the University of
Leiden, at the time when Sir Addressing the dedicatee, Roman
pursued his studies there, by
the Gentlemen, de Maets, Carolus de Maets (1640–1690), professor of chemistry at Leiden
Marggraf original: Mark-Graaf; referring to Christiaan Marggraf (1626–1687), a Dutch physician and chemist and le Mort Jacobus le Mort (1648–1718), a professor of chemistry and medicine at Leiden in
their Laboratories were carried out