PHILOSOPHICAL SCRUTINY

OF THE

TRUE ELIXIR OF LIFE,

OR THE

Genuine Philosophical Potable Gold,

BY WHICH

Not only were all diseases of the human body formerly cured, but also the unclean and leprous bodies of metals were healed.

A WORK

No less useful than necessary for all sons of the Hermetic alchemical art, in which is taught what a true student of Chemical Philosophy should know and what he should avoid. In it, the most important matters regarding the preparation of Philosophical Potable Gold are exactly clarified. Nothing is found stated therein that is not clearly and succinctly proven by the genuine texts of the Adept Philosophers, and demonstrated for the eyes to see.

Compiled with singular study and industry, not only for the sake of the sons of Hermes to understand the texts of the philosophers, but also for the benefit of the Most High Princes and Magnates to avoid the frauds of Pseudo-Alchemists fake alchemists, and to flee the useless labors of Sophists which have hitherto been expended with a vast waste of assets.

AUTHOR

MARTIN MAXIMIL. PRUGGMAYR,

Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine, Physician of the City of Graz, and Practitioner therein.

WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE SUPERIORS.

SALZBURG, At the expense of JOHANN BAPTIST MAYR, Aulic-Academic Printer. 1687.