Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God, or the Worthy and Healing Stone of the Sages

Preface.

The ointments and balms must be tested, even if it should cost fifty farmers.

This is also mimicked by some high-flying barbers and surgeons: who, although Indicationes curandi, quæ ab unica morborum Cauſa continente & pendent, & ſumun- tur, indications of curing, which depend upon and are taken from the single containing cause of diseases, are entirely and utterly unknown to them, yet they administer to the sick pills, potions, electuaries, and also even Vitrum Antimonij ſimpliciter fuſum, neque uerè ab impuritatibus ſeparatum, Glass of Antimony simply melted, and not truly separated from its impurities, or Turpetum minerale, mineral turbith (a mercury-based purgative), with great danger and violent physical reactions and disturbances. It does not concern their foolish heads at all whether they understand the ingredientia Receptarum ingredients of the recipes: As once such a fine master came into the apothecary, and when he had read in an old book