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To bring forth and to præpariren prepare this stone as simply as baking bread has now been discovered. Therefore, the intelligent German explorers of nature are no longer bound to the long labor of the old spagyren alchemists and their dark, symbolic writings. Much less are they bound to the Galenischen Galenic Galenic medicine refers to the traditional herbal and humoral system of Claudius Galen, which alchemists often sought to replace with mineral-based cures. apothecary's treasury of art. For this author does not teach from the imperfect, unstable apothecary’s art of Galenic, gilded, sugared, and patched-together recipe prescriptions. Instead, he speaks with the purest truth of all Philosophen philosophers who have existed from the beginning. Although they lived at different times, dwelled in unknown lands, and wrote in various foreign languages, and though they worked with different substances and methods according to their own ways, they all agree in a collective, universal confession of the single truth. This truth comes from the seed of the most constant and highest health, which is provided and allowed in the minera ore or radice metallorũ root of metals original: "radice metallorum", in formal and informal secrets, so that intelligent people may obtain special welfare from it. Concerning this seed of health and the radice root