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at the present time no one besides my- 

 self, has any real acquaintance with its 

 potency, virtues, powers, operation, and 

 efficacy. If any such person could be 

 found, he would be worthy to be drawn 

 about in a triumphal car, like great 

 kings and warriors after mighty and 

 heroic achievements in the battlefield. 

 But I am afraid that not many of our 

 Doctors are in danger of being forcibly 

 placed in such a car.* 



Men of this world, who are at the 

 same time students of our art, are so 

 given up to the desire of gain that they 

 can think only of the riches which Anti- 

 mony is to bestow upon them ; they do 

 not realize that the medicinal virtues of 

 Antimony should be the first object of 



* Read carefully all that our friend Basilius says in praise 

 of Antimony. You will find here no vain boasting or foolish 

 exaggeration, for as yet no man has been able to sound 

 the wonderful depths of this marvellous Medicine. We see 

 many things, new things are daily discovered, and still more 

 remain to be found out. The resources of Antimony are as 

 inexhaustible and infinitely varied as those of fire, which are 

 not diminished by taking away from them. Hence Basilius 

 rightly judged him who should sound the mystery of 

 Antimony worthy of a triumphal car. 



