Text.Fedro.1612-01.A2r/Translation

Dear favorable reader, it is indeed true that the highly enlightened and renowned physician and philosopher Georg Fedro, many years ago, published three splendid treatises in the German language: the first on the cure of epidemic plague, the second a minor surgery, and the third an apology against the detractors of the art of chemistry, which have since become so scarce due to his untimely death that no copies are to be found. Since these copies are still in my possession, which prominent physicians and lovers of Astral Medicine have seen with me and found very pleasing due to the many excellent remedies for desperate diseases contained within, they have urged me not to keep these to myself but to republish them for the benefit of the sons of Hermetic doctrine. Therefore, I have acceded to their request and have had them reprinted. And although I expect little thanks from many physicians who may not appreciate them, perhaps one in ten will find them agreeable, offer me a Deo gratias in return, and provide further reason for me, if God spares my life, to publish even more in the future. For now, may the favorable reader kindly accept this and keep me in their prayers to God.