Spagyric Anatomy of Mercury

it appears singular and admirable, yet it seems truly immense and incredible in METALS and MINERALS. For how great a benefit, convenience, and profit redounds and derives to this miserable human race from these things is known and manifest, far too much for us to demonstrate at length here.
This is testified to especially (passing over other utilities for now) by the almost infinite number and multitude of the most excellent and praiseworthy Remedies, derived and drawn out with skill from metallic bodies for the most successful overthrow and eradication of many stubborn and often deemed incurable diseases by the hand of a serious and expert Chymiatrist medical chemist and consultant in the Pyrotechnic fire-based chemical art, without whose protection or assistance, it is sometimes scarcely possible for a Physician, however learned and experienced, to progress happily in his Art, or to weave through the web of a cure once begun with prosperous success, or to perform and perfect anything else that might merit singular praise.