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TO THE MOST LEARNED MAN,

FRANCIS PRUIEAN,

A man accomplished in the medical arts and other good literature, President of the Society of London Physicians, and to the remaining most distinguished colleagues of the same society, these tender blossoms of his own genius,

William Johnson,

craftsman in chemistry,

dedicates and offers these.

Since, on account of your singular benevolence toward me (most learned men), you were diligently studying the common health and public utility, you had arranged for a Chemical alchemical workshop to be erected separately in the garden of your College, and you had summoned me (though unworthy) as your Craftsman, and by the aid of this work—