To the Learned CENSOR,

truth! To the Candid READER

Peace and Health.

A decorative initial T features floral and leaf patterns inside a square frame.To you, benevolent READER—as an experienced and judicious Consultant of Nature—and to your most learned censure, I hand over and commit this MEDICINE OF SPIRITS, which has been uncultivated and unanimously neglected until now. I say to you and your candor: I exhibit and set forth this DOCTRINE OF SPIRITS, you who have penetrated the innermost parts of NATURE, for you to examine and correct. If there are things that should be advised, please advise them, not sarcastically, not mockingly, not with the intention of causing injury, but rather with the praiseworthy and favorable intention and desire of searching for and bringing forth the truth. We shall attempt, if it pleases...