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things that offer so many excellent remedies for health, expelling diseases safely, quickly, and pleasantly, so that their fountain may deservedly be called inexhaustible. In this, I can truly assert that you have made such great, indeed such vast progress, that you deserve to be placed before the most learned physicians; thus, it may rightly be doubted whether you excel more in learning or in nobility. I see, indeed, that the enemies of this art and truth will despise this work of mine, but supported by your auspices and approval, I will fear nothing, for:

An impartial judge will admire these things also that I do,

And will read my writings, whatever they may be, with favor.

For it will be enough for me to please true Philosophers and Physicians, one of whom is to me as a whole people, as a certain ancient Philosopher once said very well. Whatever, therefore, the mysochimici haters of chemistry may grumble and bark, I hope, nevertheless, that it will be useful, both to those