I N

THE WORK OF A NOBLE AND MOST

EXPERIENCED MAN,

SEBASTIAN

WIRDIG,

Doctor of Medicine and most celebrated

Professor in the Academy of Rostock,

formerly a most friendly colleague,

ON THE NEW

MEDICINE OF SPIRITS,

Inscribed to the Illustrious Royal Society

among the English.

Not the children that Spirit led once.
The doctrine of things and the slippery art of healing
Amidst so many foolish dreams of black bile,
So many discussed flaws of qualities,
Scholastic fevers and, alas, mere words,
Words of words and as many as are born from words