Now follow the three

SECRETS original: "ARCANA"; in alchemical traditions, these are "mysteries" or hidden medicinal recipes believed to have miraculous healing powers., about which I

ask for instruction from your highly enlightened and
highly learned Brotherhood The author is addressing the Rosicrucian Fraternity, a secret society of doctors and philosophers that gained fame in the early 17th century..

The First.

Against Consumption, Fever,

Dropsy, Jaundice, etc.

original Latin: "Contra Phthisin, Febrim, Hydropem, Icteritiam, &c." These were the primary "wasting" and "fluid" diseases of the era.

When I take the life of the microcosm original: "vitam Microcosmi." In the medical philosophy of Paracelsus, the human being is the "microcosm" (small world). The "life" refers to vital substances—often blood, sweat, or other bodily fluids—believed to carry the patient's essence., which comes from the limb or organ in which the disease lies; and while it is still warm, I put it into a hollowed-out eggshell original: "Testam Ovorum", and seal it up again