DEDICATION.

sent little work, called Spagyric Medicine original: Medicina Spagyrica. Spagyrics is a term used in alchemy for the process of separating and recombining the constituents of a substance to create a more potent medicine., may also be said with good reason. For, to say nothing of the elegant order into which it has now been brought by those skilled in medicine original: Arßney-Verständige, and that this work is now for the first time augmented with the Chemical Pharmacopoeia original: Pharmacopæa Chymica and the Hermetic Herbal original: Herbario Hermerico; its utilities are so many and various that, without my help—provided it is read with reason original: raison and good understanding—it will sufficiently praise itself.

Now, as I [address] you, favorable, much-honored Gentlemen, regarding this aforementioned three-part little work original: opusculum tripartitum, in view of the magnificent benefit, as mentioned, which a diligent reader of the same—