Note 155 — Chapter IV · OF THE PROGRESS OF CHEMISTRY UNDER PARACELSUS AND HIS DISCIPLES.
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Archidoxorum, lib. viii. Opera Paracelsi, ii. 29. In this book he gives the method of preparing the elixir of life. It seems to have been nothing else than a solution of common salt in water; for the quintessence of gold, with which this solution was to be mixed, was doubtless an imaginary substance.