24 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



parts, must be dried up. Then the flux 

 will cease, and the evil can be cured by 

 means of diet alone. 



It does not require much skill to 

 heal a common fresh wound ; any boor 

 can do so with a little crude lard. But 

 to stop all the symptoms, by drying 

 up the fountain of an internal wound, 

 tests to the utmost the physician's 

 cunning. 



Come hither, then, ye that claim to 

 be doctors of both branches of Medicine, 

 healers of internal as well as of external 

 diseases : see whether you can make 

 your claim good ; ask yourselves, in the 

 sight of God, whether you really possess 

 this knowledge, or whether it belongs to 

 you as a mere formal title of honour. 

 For as great as is the distance between 

 heaven and earth, so great is the differ- 

 ence between the art of healing internal 

 and external diseases. If your honour- 

 able title be the gift of God, the same 

 God will also follow it up with blessing, 

 success, and happiness ; but if your title 

 be a vain imagination of your own am- 



