Preface.

balsamed and relieved of all earthliness, attains health, long life, so that he gladly carries out the Lord's will, whatever is commanded to him.

Theophrastus) It is the best work among all works, because everything that man can desire of temporal things is not to be compared with this. For it has been proven, found perfect and infallible. Its praise cannot be sufficiently expressed, because its good power and property is far beyond human thought.

Idem The same) Its power is so wonderful that it shows and brings the body higher than the innate constitution, and maintains it steadily in that degree, so that it is preserved free from all diseases, and although it seems afflicted with age, it would be as if restored to its former youth.

Thus the Tinctura Philosophorum Tincture of the Philosophers is a universal, which, as an invisible fire, consumes all diseases, as...