Pandora: The Noblest Gift of God

The salves and balsams must be tested, even if it costs fifty peasants.

Some high-strung barbers and shearers also follow this practice: although the Indicationes curandi, quæ ab unica morborum Causa continente & pendent, & sumuntur indicators of healing, which depend upon and are taken from the single containing cause of diseases are entirely unknown to them, they nevertheless administer pills, potions, electuaries, and even Vitrum Antimonij simpliciter fusum, neque uerè ab impuritatibus separatum glass of antimony simply melted, and not truly separated from impurities, or Turpetum minerale mineral turbith (a mercury compound) to the sick, with great danger and violent movements and perturbation. It matters nothing at all to their foolish heads whether they understand the ingredientia Receptarum ingredients of the prescriptions: as once happened when such a fine master came into the pharmacy, and having read in an old book