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continues from previous page: ...concerning the method of healing prescribed by Galen. Finally, that I might briefly disclose to you what I think about that philosophical stone so much celebrated by many, especially the Arabs and more recent authors. Truly, if I write to you briefly about these three things, I shall appear to have touched upon the three primary heads of Paracelsian philosophy. Although I am not unaware that the treatment of these three things can neither be undertaken without prepared leisure, nor completed in a few words, nevertheless, such is the force of my love for you that in this letter I shall follow the highest summits of the matters.
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