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is enabled to work more successfully on 

 the system.* 



The Elixir prepared in this way has 

 the same power of penetrating and per- 

 vading the body with its purifying- 

 properties, that Antimony has of pene- 

 trating and purifying gold. If I were 

 to count up and describe all its virtues, 

 I should have to ask God to grant 

 me a longer life, in order that I might 

 be able to explore so many wonderful 

 properties. 



In fulfilment of my promise, I here 

 describe those experiments which I have 

 myself carried out. It would not become 

 me to speak of that which I do not know. 

 I have quite enough to do to commemo- 

 rate that of which I have had practical 

 experience. There is plenty of scope 

 for those who come after me to inves- 

 tigate the marvels of Antimony. No 

 one is more acutely sensible than myself 



* The difference between the purgatives of Medicine and 

 the purgatives of Alchemy is as follows : the former cause 

 violent purging, but have no power to set up a curative pro- 

 cess ; the latter possess the double virtue both of purging and 

 healing. 



