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Valentine, his real and pretended knowledge of medicine and 
alchemy ; his denunciation of doctors, apothecaries, and sur- 
geons; his process for making the philosopher’s stone; his 
works discovered by a flash of lightning; impositions of the 
alchemists ; how they effected them; their punishments; al- 
chemists in danger from theirvery popularity ; the alchemist and 
the devil ; Butler, the Irish alchemist, and his miracles, testified 
by Van Helmont; Glauber, his chemical sauces; the Rosicru- 
cian physicians, and their ridiculous pretensions ; their origin ; 
Robert Fludd ; cures by transplantation ; Sir Kenelm Digby; 
sympathetic cures ; George Pheedro ; tarantism defended lately 
by Hecker ; alchemists becoming useful chemical physicians ; 
Paracelsus an enthusiastic impostor who performed singular 
cures ; his life: 
Fepruary 14, 1851. 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Presivenrt, 
in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of Council, 
: Ir was Resotvep, — ‘* That the word ‘ President’ be 
omitted in Chap. V. Sect. 3, of the By-laws; and also, that 
the following words be omitted in Sect. 4 of the same Chapter 
of the By-laws: ‘ Five of which shall be taken from the list of 
those who are already of the above-mentioned committee.’ ” 
Mr. Donovan continued the reading of his paper on the 
early chemical and alchemical physicians. 
Dr. Petrie exhibited an ancient Irish crozier of great beauty 
of execution, and supposed to be a work of the tenth century, 
which had been recently obtained by Cardinal Wiseman in 
