The Text of Alchemy and the Green Dream

PREFACE.

myself and for my parents, but also for the Public, and for my Homeland, to whose service I am entirely devoted.

Since Medicine is my calling, although I am only the least of its disciples, I am a doctor and I am modest original: "Medicusque sim modicus"; I do not believe I am entirely wasting my time when I apply myself to reading the books of Hermetic Philosophy. Through the same principles, one has found remedies that would be unknown to us if one had not exactly performed the anatomy of mixtures. I have already had the