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not advise any one to apply common 

 Antimony as a Medicine, because its use 

 would really be fatal to health and life. 

 Both at the courts of the princes and in 

 towns the brethren of the profession 

 warn kings, courtiers, and burghers not 

 to have anything to do with Antimony. 

 This outcry has actually brought the 

 substance into evil repute, and to this 

 very day no one ventures to avail him- 

 self of the wonderful and various medi- 

 cinal qualities latent therein. Yet I 

 solemnly declare, in the presence of God, 

 the Creator of heaven and earth, and of 

 things both visible and invisible, which 

 we either know now or shall one day 

 know, that there is not beneath the 

 sun any more efficacious Medicine, or 

 stronger pillar of health, than this very 

 same Antimony. 



Hearken diligently to my w r ords, 

 and ye, wise men of this world, observe 

 well the announcement which I shall 

 make concerning Antimony : for my 

 theory is based upon Nature, and my 



practice on experience. I am fully pre- 



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