Particular from the Universal

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This advice from the good farmer and his commentator did not seem entirely absurd to me, and appeared to be understood in one way or another. Therefore, according to my own judgment, I made this particular a limited alchemical process, and carried its 8 grains onto half a lot of molten silver; the silver became brittle and yielded 10 grains of gold per aquam fortem by way of nitric acid. Because it was not worth the trouble, it occurred to me to test experiment what it might do in medicine, for I knew that it could harm no one, since gold (thus I understood the red fixed eagle) was also present in it.

Now, at that time, at the request of a poor neighbor woman who had long labored with incontinentiâ urinæ urinary incontinence, I had given her several times the crocus of Mars saffron-colored iron oxide