DEDICATION

For a good and lengthy time now, many excellent and highly learned people have diligently pursued this Spagyric ArtA branch of alchemy focused on medicine, specifically the process of separating, purifying, and recombining the components of natural substances to create potent remedies., publicly and in writing commending, glorifying, and highly praising it for its high and excellent utility in Medicine and the cure of diseases original: cura morborum, to say nothing of the transmutation of metals.

Just as the highly intelligent and well-experienced men Conradus Chunradi and Joachimus Tanckius, Doctors of Medicine at Leipzig, have deserved very well of this noble Art, [demonstrating] its Truth, Antiquity, and Utility original: Veritatem, Antiquitatem und Utilitatē through excellent commendations and other writings, and by publishing many good, select Chemical booklets by Bernhardus Likely referring to Bernard of Trevisan, a famous 15th-century alchemist. and other excellent Philosophers In the context of this era, "Philosophers" refers to "Natural Philosophers" or alchemists who studied the secrets of nature.. Likewise, Johannes Thölde of Hesse, a citizen of Frankenhausen, has praised it beyond all measure by bringing to light the extraordinary treatises of Brother Basil Valentine original: Tractatus Fr. Basilii Valentini of the Benedictine Order.

I consider it entirely unnecessary at this time to disturb original: molestirn Your Imperial Majesty with further praise of this noble Art, or to foist original: obtrudiren upon Your Imperial Majesty’s royal table what is, as it were, twice-cooked cabbage original: Cramben bis coctam; a Latin idiom referring to a boring repetition or a story told too many times—suggesting the Emperor is already very well-informed on the subject.. Consequently, I shall let the matter rest for now with the aforementioned Doctors and other commendatory writings original: Scriptis commendatitiis concerning this heavenly, high Art and its usefulness.