Text.Crollius.1609-01.!4r/Translation
From Theatrum Paracelsicum
To Oswald Croll.
Behold the unique juices of nature, Croll, when the distillation of herbs feels the flame, through certain hours, not ignorant of learned art; salt seeks the bottom, oil floats in the middle, spirit rises to the top. These three, thus enclosed in glass, separated by color, each can be distinguished by the clear eye. Who would not praise the divine discoveries of the golden Paracelsus, his keen intellect, and his wondrous fire; under whose guidance the chemists learned new arts, by whose demonstration the sick are healed with a simple drop? But who would not marvel at you, fortunate one, who stores such things for the use of mankind?
In the year 1593, at Heidelberg.
Melissus made this.
