Biolychnium or The Lamp

PRÆFATIO.

inseparable by a certain certain gift of Nature *) for thus it is defined as a state? the mixture of all Elements? By means of which, the Elements themselves, considered according to their individuals, are made no less incorruptible than their matter was previously in its entirety. It is a difficult thing that you hear, and with what hands is it to be brought forth? For this, genuine, pure, and clean Elements are needed, which are polluted by no heterogeneous things, and tainted by no elemental qualities. like certain conditions exist?

Go now, troop of Misochymici haters of chemistry, and with hostile standards, by any right or injury, advance against the Chymiatri chemical physicians who possess such proven and invincible virtue in chemical workshops and labors, and bring forth your polyglottia chattering/babbling in many tongues against their polypraxia extensive work/busyness. But if you do not immediately consult your safety by flight and hare-like cleverness, those chimney-sweeps will be ready, and with their first bellows they will blow away your battle line, or the coal-men, their servants, will tear you to pieces bit by bit with the hated and feared structure of their tongs, and having reduced you to ash, will scatter you through the air. But stay within the bounds of Modesty. Only those skilled in Philosophical and Pyronomic Anatomy are those who concoct this cure, which is so admirable that it removes the illnesses not only of human bodies