Alchemy, ancient and modern . a< < jou <o. z ao H O HO 7b/«« ^«fie52] §42] THE ALCHEMISTS 53 shadowed out eternal things, and at last his labourswere rewarded by the discovery of a Stone most potentin the curing of diseases. In The Triumphal Chariotof Antimony are accurately described a large numberof antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposedto have written this work some time in the fifteenthcentury, these preparations were accordingly concludedto have been, for the most part, his own defends with the utmost vigour the medicinalvalues of antimony, and criticis
Alchemy, ancient and modern . a< < jou <o. z ao H O HO 7b/«« ^«fie52] §42] THE ALCHEMISTS 53 shadowed out eternal things, and at last his labourswere rewarded by the discovery of a Stone most potentin the curing of diseases. In The Triumphal Chariotof Antimony are accurately described a large numberof antimonial preparations, and as Basil was supposedto have written this work some time in the fifteenthcentury, these preparations were accordingly concludedto have been, for the most part, his own defends with the utmost vigour the medicinalvalues of antimony, and criticises in terms far frommild the physicians of his day. On account of thiswork Basil Valentine has ranked very high as anexperimental chemist; but from quite early times itsdate and authorship have been regarded alike asdoubtful; and it appears from the researches of thelate Professor Schorlemmer to be an undoubtedforgery dating from about 1600, the informationbeing culled from the works of other writers. . .l6Probably the other works ascribed t
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