Preface.

...face mentions: and specifically in the year 1605 in Dresden. See Moller in the cited place original: "l. d." for "loco dicto". Thus, it is a clear mistake when G. M. König writes in his Library of Old and New Authors original: "Biblioth. V. & N." for "Bibliotheca Vetus et Nova" that he flourished original: "floriret"; refers to a person's period of peak activity in 1607.

How deeply he otherwise looked into one thing and another in medicine and other sciences, and how significantly he departed from many common, unfounded opinions, has already been noted in Mr. Arnold’s History of the Church and Heretics original: "Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie," a famous work by Gottfried Arnold that defended "heretics" as the true Christians in the cited place, page 12 and following original: "sq." for "sequens". We therefore direct the kind reader there and wish only to mention this here; although he brought much blame original: "blâmes" upon himself thereby, and also had to endure much opposition from both physicians original: "Medicis" and theologians, he was nonetheless highly esteemed original: "æstimiret" by the most learned and sensible men of that and subsequent times. As Master Andreas Riccius, a Saxon school rector, set this significant verse of praise original: "Lob-Spruch" for the man's portrait: