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 To the Reader. the tone, and all tartarous matter in the body into a liquor, worth finding out? Is not his Tinea Scatura a mot noble medicine, that extinguiheth all preternatural heat in the body in a moment? Is not his Altahet a famous diolvent, that can in an intant diolve all things into their firt Principles, and withall is a pecificum againt all ditempers of the liver? who would not take paines to make the quinteence of honey and the philoophicall pirit of wine, which are cordial and balamical even to admiration? A whole day would fail to reckon up all the excellent, admirable rarities that by this pagyrical Art might be brought to light, in the earching out of which, why may not the Elixir it elfe at lat be attained unto? Is it not poible for them that pae through many philoophical preparations to unfold at lat the riddles, and Hieroglyphicks of the Philoophers? or were they all meer Phantames? Is there no fundamentum in re for this ecret? Is there no perme in gold? is it not poible to exalt it for multiplication? Is there no univeral pirit in the world? Is it not poible to finde