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Valentine, his real and pretended knowledge of medicine and 

 alchemy ; his denunciation of doctors, apothecaries, and sur- 

 geons ; his process for making the philosopher's stone; his 

 works discovered by a flash of lightning ; impositions of the 

 alchemists ; how they effected them ; then* punishments ; al- 

 chemists in danger from their very popularity ; the alchemist and 

 the devil ; Butler, the Irish alchemist, and his miracles, testified 

 by Van Helmont ; Glauber, his chemical sauces ; the Rosicru- 

 cian physicians, and their ridiculous pretensions ; their origin ; 

 Robert Fludd ; cures by transplantation ; Sir Kenelm Digby •, 

 sympathetic cures ; George Phaedro ; tarantism defended lately 

 by Hecker ; alchemists becoming useful chemical physicians ; 

 Paracelsus an enthusiastic impostor who performed singular 

 cures ; his life. 



February 14, 1851. 



HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of Council, 



It was Resolved, — " That the word ' President' be 

 omitted in Chap. V. Sect. 3, of the By-laws ; and also, that 

 the following words be omitted in Sect. 4 of the same Chapter 

 of the By-laws : ' Five of which shall be taken from the list of 

 those who are already of the above-mentioned committee.' " 



Mr. Donovan continued the reading of his paper on the 

 early chemical and alchemical physicians. 



Dr. Petrie exhibited an ancient Irish crozier of great beauty 

 of execution, and supposed to be a work of the tenth century, 

 which had been recently obtained by Cardinal Wiseman in 



