Thesauri et armamentarii medico-chymici appendix [...] Testamentum Hadrianeum

The Testament of Hadrian

From here at last, with God as the leader, the COMPLETED STONE will come forth into the air. It is that King of every kind of healing, a powerful Panacea Panacæa with unconquerable virtues. There is no medicine more healthful in the whole world.
It penetrates all parts of the body with a spiritual force, even if taken in the weight of only a single grain.
Just as smoke drives away bees, so this drives foul humors from the body. It chases away every kind of disease. Having thoroughly pulled up the evil by the root, it puts better things in its place.
Indeed, it renews and preserves youth, blooming like an eagle. it does not allow one to perish by a malignant accident, unless that final goal fixed for man by the supreme Deity has closed his age at a full lifespan.
For death is common and not avoidable by anyone, finally, whoever is created from mortal seed.
The first-born Adam and the ancient Fathers led a long-lived and healthy life through the centuries with this medicine.
The age of the ancient wise men flourished by this; by this very thing, they earned an eternal name along with a rich storehouse.
No monster of disease, no matter how incurable, stands against this: whether it be the dire dropsy hydrops edema or swelling, or a leprous scabies scabies skin disease, or gout Podagra of the feet, or the twisting hand-gout chiragra of the arms.
And those other torments of men for which other medicines are despaired of—that living death of a living and breathing corpse—nothing is insuperable to our Stone. All things are conquered by this one unconquered thing.