TABLE OF CHAPTERS

Chapter X. On the distinction of medicinal species kinds/types and on the correct materialibus materials that have been discovered for medicines. 34

Chapter XI. On the right time in which the medicinal species should be collected and gathered. 37

Chapter XII. On compound medicines original: De medicamentis compositis, how such are to be forsaken note: likely referring to the abandonment of complex, ineffective mixtures in favor of simpler spagyric ones, and what their effect is. 41

Chapter XIII. On the right and true preparation of all medicines. 43

Chapter XIV. In what manner, and through which means, the medicine should be prepared and readied. 46

Chapter XV. How one may prepare medicines universally original: universaliter, and resolve them through the water of wisdom original: aqua sapientiae. 48

Chapter XVI. On the preparation and readying of medicines that occur through the particular way. 51

Chapter XVII. & XVIII. On the gold of the philosophers original: De auro philosophorum, what it is. 54

Chapter XIX. How one should prepare gold, silver, and all other metals particularly, and extract their quintessence original: Quintam Essentiam. 57

Chapter XX. How one may prepare the quintessence of pearls and other precious stones for medicine