This then, if considered of, I doubt not but that 'twill be on all hands Consest, that Metalline things have the greatest agreement with the body of man; and that the perfect Metalls, by reason of their perfection, but principally their radical humidity, are able to do much upon the body of man: for that a man is also a partaker of that Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury, which doth in some measure, though hidden, ••est in mettals, and metalline things. Now then like is to be applied to like, the which is wonderfully profitable to nature, so it be rightly done, the which is a great secret in Medi∣cine, yea, may be called an Arcanum.
What wonder therefore, is it, if excellent, unheard of, and inseparable Cures do follow, and such as igno∣rant men accounted impossible to be done?
But that I may not digress any further, I must for brevities sake, here hint what I have determined to write in this Book; for I have a mind of treating more clear∣ly here in this place concerning true medicine, then else∣where. But we have afore toldhow man hath his original of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt, even as Metals have; this therefore being sufficiently declared in the book, P A∣RAMIRV M, 'tis needless to repeat it here▪ wherefore I shall only shew you, how the aforesaid Stone of the Phi∣losophers may be known, and in some measure prepared: Know therefore of a Certainty, that there's nothing so small, out of which any thing is to be made, that can stand without Form; for all things are Formed, genera∣ted, multiplied, and destroied in their Concordancy, and propet agreeableness, and do shew their Originality, whereby it may be perceived, what it was in the begin∣ning; and that, that same also must be in the Vltimate matter, and that, that which runs, or steps in between, is like to that imperfection which nature admixeth in the Generation.
But whereas such Accidents may be separated by