Of the highly necessary

I.

FIRST QUESTION.

Philosophical DISSOLVED SALTS of Gems and STONES.

One does not therefore reject THESE, or push them out of MEDICINE, by no means: they certainly still retain their due place and position: but this is all one wishes to have: that the former far surpass the latter, and also leave these far behind, and for that reason are justly preferred to them.

Whether NOT FIRSTLY, such aforementioned noble and other STONES’ purified SALINE DISSOLVED substances or DISSOLVED materials, which per SE in and of themselves, alone, are truly natural and properly prepared and finished philosophically, are to be held as far purer, subtler, better, more effective and useful, than when NOBLE and OTHER STONES are merely poorly crushed in a mortar (as always happens and is well done among the greater part of PHYSICIANS) and are rubbed down on a grinding stone with either rose water, strawberry water, or other herbal distilled waters, finely pulverized; OR otherwise through frequent heating and quenching, whether now also either in common poor or distilled waters, wine, or vinegar; item, after, with or without