Chemical Lexicon

whom he himself neither could nor would cure—shamefully begged an Epistle letter from Oporinus, the amanuensis of Theophrastus Paracelsus, which he later brought into the light, so that by deliberately and industriously twisting the words of that Epistle and interpreting them maliciously, he might sully the honor of that incomparable man. Although there are more things in that Epistle which pertain to the praise of Theophrastus than to his disparagement, and what he censures there must be understood in a way far different from how either Oporinus or others have interpreted it. Oporinus himself acknowledged this with repentance, walking in a meadow near the Rhine with Michael Toxites the Physician, when they were sailing together from Basel to Strasbourg, as Toxites himself testifies. Our Fullerus of prodigious memory also, forgetting himself, investigated this same path and traduced it without inquiry; if he had consulted the writers about Paracelsus or his books, he would have surveyed with a light glance the mutual contacts between Erasmus of Rotterdam (not his equal, if I am not mistaken) and many other not-vulgar physicians of that time, and Paracelsus. But the Epitaph of Paracelsus—