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this newly invented noble medicine, and it has been spread about that it is only a common precipitate that operates functions no further than in illnesses where sweating is necessary; or that it is the long-discarded so-called Azoth a universal solvent or mercury of the philosophers of Hesling; or that it is not being done with righteous things.

I have therefore been moved to publicly remonstrate protest against this injustice inflicted upon it before GOD and the world, and to let the learned world pass its impartial judgment upon it. Primarily, however, to provide the most praiseworthy established Academia Naturæ Curiosorum Academy of the Curious of Nature with a due recommendation suggestion to investigate this arcane substance hidden or secret remedy further and more completely.