Now follow the three

SECRETS original: "ARCANA", in which I

ask for instruction from your

highly illuminated and

highly learned Brotherhood.

The First.

Against Consumption, Fever,

Dropsy, Jaundice, etc. original: "Phthisin, Febrim, Hydropem, Icteritiam." These terms refer to wasting diseases (tuberculosis), various fevers, swelling caused by fluid retention, and yellowing of the skin, respectively.

When I take the life
of the microcosm original: "vitam Microcosmi." In the context of 17th-century hermetic medicine, this "life" usually refers to biological extracts—such as blood, sweat, or urine—taken from a patient, which were believed to contain their vital essence or "mummy.", which comes from
the limb where the sick-
ness lies / and put it while it is still
warm into a hollowed-out eggshell original: "Testam Ovorum",
and seal it up again