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tion, and of its true soul, in which 

 consists all its usefulness. If you are 

 familiar with these, you can truly tell 

 what is good and medicinal, what is bad 

 and poisonous, in it. It is surely worth 

 while to enquire into the essential and 

 fundamental nature of Antimony, and to 

 discover how its venomous quality, 

 against which so loud an outcry is 

 raised, may be removed, and itself pre- 

 pared, changed, and transmuted into a 

 pure Medicine, containing not a single 

 trace of poison. 



Many Anatomists have subjected 

 Antimony to all manner of singular 

 torments and excruciating processes, 

 which it is difficult either to believe or 

 to describe. Their studies have led to 

 no result, because they did not seek the 

 true soul of Antimony, and, therefore, 

 did not soon find that fictitious soul of 

 which they were in search, their path 

 being obscured with black colours which 

 rendered invisible what they desired to 

 see. Antimony, like Mercury, is com- 

 parable to a circle, without beginning or 



