This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.