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also among high potentates, princes, counts, lords, and the nobility. With elegant chattering, pride, and Latin splendor, they masterfully present the inventions of the highest doctors as special treasures. They sell worthy arcana general medicinen secret universal medicines and præservativen preventative remedies for high payment. They stuff the bodies, chambers, and field-apothecaries of princes and lords with these things. Indeed, some even wear such imperfectè imperfect apothecary arts and chemical student-pranks in gold and silver, like holy relics, around their necks.

Now, the irrefutable truth is supported by actual work: namely, that even the imperfect, simple births of nature, when properly prepared as the aforementioned particular medicamenten specific remedies, may perform some patchwork in the human body against various occurring morbis diseases and plagues. Even the highly enlightened medicus physician Theophrastus Paracelsus was a Swiss physician and alchemist who pioneered the use of minerals in medicine. Theophrastus Paracelsus acknowledges this, as does Basilius Valentinus. They even provide instructions on how to prepare these things correctly. However, these imperfectiones imperfect things, as they are