Spagyric Medicine or the Spagyric Art of Healing

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E The text begins with a large, decorative ornamental letter 'E' featuring scrolling foliage. Honorable, Highly-Esteemed, and Skillful—particularly favorable and much-honored Gentlemen: The Romans original: Lateiner (Latin-speakers) speak very well and rightly when they say in one of their proverbs: Good wine needs no hanging ivy original Latin: Vino vendibili non opus esse suspensa hedera. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, an ivy bush or wreath was hung outside a tavern to signal that wine was available for sale; the proverb suggests that high quality requires no advertising.; namely, that good wine requires no signpost or herald, and it is not necessary to make great boasts or exaggerations regarding good wares, since they praise themselves sufficiently.

This, my much-honored Gentlemen, can and may [be said] of our pre-