Disputationes chymico-medicae

and shortly thereafter, several DISPUTATIONES CHYMICO-MEDICÆ Chemical-Medical Disputations, most of which were held under my presidency. These provided, I believe, a clear guarantee of the chemical promise I had made. Indeed, they have not only served their purpose until now, but will continue to do so in the future. Since the previous copies have all been distributed, these now come forth again, and are twice as large. They will prove how useful and necessary we make these very scholastic exercises. These exercises concern the precepts of the art—at least some portion of the faculty and practice of Medicine—and are conducted as problems to be solved, yet with modesty. This continues until, in due time, we may publicly demonstrate the practice of Chymiatria chemical medicine through example and the work itself, understood through an accurate method of healing.

This labor, however, was yours, most pleasant disciples, who wished to sweat in this Chemical-Medical wrestling school under my protection. Furthermore, it shall be the labor of those who hereafter desire to use a similar racecourse and run such a noble lap in the MAURITIANA ACADEMIA The University of Marburg, named for Landgrave Maurice. Therefore, to all of you who remain, wherever you are, I hope this labor, driven and worked through by you, deservedly returns. To others, unless I am mistaken, it will be like a hermathena a statue combining Hermes and Athena, representing the union of eloquence and wisdom. This is so they do not think it praiseworthy or glorious to turn away from such a noble and celebrated path or to fail to exercise in this most distinguished Xyſto covered gallery or porch for exercise of medical-chemists original: "τῶν διατρεφόντων", those who nourish or support.

As for me, I will faithfully defend the post I once accepted in this station of mine, even if it is almost ἀδιεξόδῳ impenetrable or without an easy exit. I will do this for the sake of these Muses, never abdicating these arts because of which I have incurred the scurrilous insults of the wicked. I am far from ever wishing to appease their hatred by abandoning virtue. Truly, in this ulcerated age, men cannot rest otherwise. Such is the food of those who, to promote their own names, roam about ἀνυπευθυνότως without accountability with a perverse lust for slandering others. Evidently, they believe they can be thought learned if they can prove others unlearned, as if surpassing the learned in erudition were a far lesser glory than triumphing over ignorance. Thus, whatever virulence a certain great collector of chemical secrets recently vomited upon me in that κρυνοχυτρελήναιον mishmash or kitchen-sink collection of his, which he gathered from common sources,

I certainly do not value it as much as he perhaps desires me to.