The Preface.
ſuch a bold Arithmetic) were made. Now Reader gueſs, if thou doſt know the Matter, for it may be thou art one of thoſe who conceive themſelves to be Some-body. I tell thee this Theory is Raymund Lully’s, and if thou canſt make nothing of it, I can without a figure tell thee how wiſe thou art. There are in the World as many ſorts of Salts, as there are Species, and the Salts differ as the Species do, namely, Eſſentially; for the Specific Forms lie in the Salt. Now learn of me, that there is no true Phyſic, but what is in Salt: for Salt was never known to putrifie, nay it hinders Putrifaction and Corruption in all things, and what hinders Corruption, hinders all Diſeaſes. Now it is evident to all the World, that Salt hinders Corruption, and a Solution of the parts, and this not only in living Things, but even in dead Bodies: for if they be ſeaſon’d with Salt, then are they preſerved, and Corruption comes not at them. It is to be obſerved, that Virgil in the Cure of Æneas brings in this Mother Venus with a Panacea, or an Univerſal Medicine:
