An Appendix or Corollary

I have in the foregoing Treatise declared the use of the Salt of Art, both in Physick and Alchimy, and have set down nothing, but what my self have experienced. What I have writ concerning our Alcolized Spirit of Wine, is also the very truth: And tho’ what I have here set down might seem to suffice; yet I cannot, before I conclude this small Book, but mention a much greater Gift of God, than that of which I have spoken here, viz. that God hath vouchsafed Mankind, for preserving their Health, a Subject, wherein the Powers and Virtues of all Vegetables, Animals and Minerals, are summ’d up and united together; which Subject may be had in all places for nothing, and however contemptible it may seem to the ignorant, yet it is the matter of the highest Medicine in the World. Every Man can have enough of it from himself, needs therefore not to go to another for it. Adam and Eve our first Parents brought this matter with them out of Paradise; yea, every one brings it along with him from his Mothers womb.

Let no Man imagin, that I speak here of Urine, or Mans Dung, it is something else, and more despised than either of them, so that a proud Man will scarcely light upon it. I say, if a Man know this Subject, and how to make use of it in Physick, he may well account himself happy, as needing nothing of all that is in the World besides, in Case he hath only strength, place, and convenience to prepare the same. The Subject costs nothing, and the Preparation requires neither Glasses, Coals nor Furnace. I commend this Subject to Physicians above any other in the World, the Preparation being easie, and without Charges, and may be finished in few days: So that the knowledge of this Subject, and its easie Preparation, ought not to be look’d upon, as an invention of Man, but as a wonderful, and undeserved Gift of God, reserved only for those, who despise the World with all its Vanities, renounce the Devil and all his Works, and avoid the Company of wicked Men, his adherents.