The Fire-Stone of Basil, or the Golden Apple

but you will be able to provide sustenance so that they endure; here no disease is ever driven away if the powers are disregarded, but the powers are often restored for the diminution of the disease. This is what some ancient physicians did; their sole intention was to invigorate nature, which, once relieved and invigorated, perfects all things as is expedient. Thus they never subverted the human being. Therefore, never cease to operate with cordials.

Just as a single poisonous herb, root, or other poisonous matter brings a man to his death in a very small quantity, so too can there be a single wholesome matter which, used in the same very small weight, can preserve [one] in health and deliver [one] from all evil states. Just as a poisoned air passes through the entire body and all its limbs, infects, poisons, and ruins it entirely, and, conversely, a healthy and wholesome air refreshes the body and its limbs and guards against diseases, so can a single harmless medicine, when made uniform, airy, and penetrative to the living spirit, be powerful and strong to eradicate all bodily ailments. Who does not see that the sun of the firmament, as a single creature, gives and imparts light to all the stars of the entire earth, and awakens and rouses them to liveliness, movement, and effect? Since enough has been said of this, the Chrysomelea golden honey must decide whether such a universal medicine is necessary to be sought, or whether one should content oneself solely and exclusively with the particular experimentorum remediis remedies of particular experiments used until now.

Universalis autem ac perfecta dicitur sanatio illa A universal and perfect healing is called that where the operations are not those usual and excretory evacuations, as if one were suffering from a hangover, perhaps more copious than the powers can easily bear; but where those things are completed which are desired: spontaneous evacuations agreeable to human nature, by stool, by urine, by sweat, by insensible perspiration. All these things are indeed performed with one and the same medicine, by resolving, consuming, and dissipating morbid impurities, and by corroborating, counseling, and guarding the innate vigor of the microcosmus little world/the human body. Such cures, all of which are completed by strengthening, sedation, and mitigation, are the safest, most excellent, and highest. Such operations are performed entirely in our universal medicine, whose spiritual power, free from corporeal mass, penetrates more deeply, easily imprints actions in distant places, and refreshes the collapsed powers of the spirits and corroborates the innate strength against any internal enemy, whatever the disease may be. Therefore, the method of universal medical cure is deservedly to be highly esteemed.