The Golden Themis

the Brothers treat everyone for free, not valuing the worth of gold.

C A P. VII.

Certain abuses in medicine are taxed. First, that long prescriptions are commonly written not so much for the patient's convenience and the necessity of the disease as for the pharmacist's profit and the physician's ostentation, so that he does not appear to be an Empyricus quack/unskilled practitioner, when it is better to use a few proven simples.

C A P. VIII.

Secondly, that medicaments of magnificent titles are made by others from human opinion to be precious, when the same diseases could be cured by other cheaper and common ones, but not as freely.

C A P. IX.

That many physicians abhor all chemical remedies, and not a few despise those taken from the class of vegetables and Galenic remedies, neither of which should be done, the causes being demonstrated, since both should be used according to the variety of the case.

C A P. X.

Regarding the vices in the person of the physician that are not to be tolerated, from which the Rosicrucian Fraternity is free.

C A P. XI.

Whether the said Brothers, when called to cure some disease, are bound to appear, and whether they cure all diseases, both incurable and curable, without distinction, and it is demonstrated that they do neither.

C A P. XII.

By what kind of remedies they use, which is asserted to be nothing but lawful and natural, the cause having been proved.