Preface.

as they may ever be named.

Its dose is very small, but the effect is mightily great. Therefore, leprosy, French disease syphilis, dropsy, colic, falling sickness, stroke, item: wolf a type of ulcerous sore, cancer, fistula, siren an unidentified archaic medical term for a persistent sore, and all kinds of internal ailments, more than can be thought of by a man, etc., have been cured by me.

Idem The same) Since it is then such a high treasure, which is adorned with wisdom, understanding, wealth, and highest health; so we should rightly, with the help of GOD, search after it.

Alius Another) I will give you a glorious gift, whereby, if you wish to be pious, you can acquire paradise, and also attain great wealth of this world, high honor and dignity, and all pleasure in your life: for you will use it in joy, and thereby do great deeds.

Alius Another) Philosophers have called our divine work a stone. And this they did in respect to the end of the decoction of our material: because it remains fixed in the fire. For they are accustomed to call it a stone, whatever does not flee the fire, and is not sublimated by it. The state of the whole world would perish if our stone were named in books.