Biolychnium or The Lamp

PRÆFATIO.

apparatus of human ingenuity, is to be displayed in this Theatre of the Universe, and subsequently to be brought forth. Vegetable Philosophical Chaos. Such is that which exists in the letter of our Friend concerning that Palingenesia regeneration/rebirth of plants resurrected from Hermetic ashes, and six hundred other things which Chemistry, the faithful handmaid of Medicine, reveals daily to the genuine disciples of Natura Nature.

Go on, and harden your brow against these things, as many of you who have declared a hatred for Chymopyrotechnia chemical-pyrotechnic art more than Vacinian a reference to a particularly intense or historical hatred, or who carp against Medicina Universalis Universal Medicine. I say Universal, not because this one thing cures all diseases in the universe equally, but because when applied to the compositions of any remedies whatsoever, it invigorates their operations in a wondrous manner, to cast off whatever force or persistence of disease there may be, and it carries them forward to the happy outcome of the destined effect, while the stubbornness of vicious and peccant humors resists in vain. That Universal Medicine, like some Divina Virgula divine rod/wand, reduces the imbalance in the dissonant constitution of human intemperance to that Harmonia Physica Physical Harmony and Æqualitas Equality, which is the source and preserver of all Sanitas Health. What is that—which is commonly thought incredible—