Preface.

to an old man of 89 years, given of this medicine; he became sprightly, skin and hair were all changed upon him, and he subsequently lived for another 30 years.

Alius Another) Now it has not seemed unadvisable to me to speak something of the universali arcano universal secret, which all philosophers have held to be a treasure, that nothing higher is to be found in this perishable world.

For it not only transforms the immunda & leprosa corpora metallorum unclean and leprous bodies of metals into the purity and constancy of gold and silver, but also relieves the Corpora humana human bodies of all sickness and adversity, such as leprosy, stroke, gout, dropsy, epilepsy, stone, contractions, etc., and maintains the human body in constant health, up to the prædestinato termino mortis predestined end of death, without any burden.

Furthermore, the organa intellectus organs of the intellect are thereby illuminated to such an extent that man, through this means, can...