82 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



pared to admit, and I have already 

 admitted, that, before its preparation, 

 Antimony is a poison, and nothing else. 

 Nevertheless, you Doctor, or Master of 

 Arts, or Bachelor of Arts, or whatever 

 your title, on the strength of which you 

 speak ignorantly and arrogantly about 

 things which you do not understand : 

 listen carefully to my words, and hearken 

 to what I have to say to you. 



Antimony, you affirm, is a poison : 

 therefore let every one beware of using 

 it ! But this conclusion is not logical, 

 Sir Doctor, Magister, or Baccalaureus ; 

 it is not logical, Sir Doctor, however 

 much you may plume yourself on your 

 red cap. Theriac is prepared from the 

 venom of the viper, the most deadly 

 poison in the world. Does it therefore 

 follow that Theriac ought not to be used 

 as a Medicine ? You know that it is so 

 employed ; and, similarly, Antimony can 

 be so freed of its poison by our Spagyric 

 Art as to become a most salutary Medi- 

 cine, just as the viper's poison acquires 

 medicinal properties after its conversion 



