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liquid can be prepared in such a way as 

 to become a most potent and deadly 

 poison. This is a fact which no one 

 will believe who has not seen experi- 

 mental proof of it. Nevertheless, though 

 a corrosive poison is prepared from 

 honey, no one has any right to say that 

 honey itself is poisonous or harmful. 

 Here is something which may deliver 

 our doctors from Divine vengeance. 

 Honey is indirectly prepared from the 

 excrements of brute beasts, with which 

 the meadows are manured, and whence 

 hundred and thousands of sweet and 

 fragrant flowers spring up. From these 

 the quintessence is sucked by the bees, 

 whereby there takes place an alteration 

 and generation of one thing into another, 

 i.e., into an aliment of different form and 

 taste, resembling its former condition in 

 no particular, and designated honey. 

 This honey may be either a pleasant 

 form of food for man, or there may be 

 prepared from it a poison of the most 

 deadly effect, both on man and beast. 

 Therefore, gentle reader, whoever 



