[136] Invention of Verity, chap. 14.
[137] Ibid., chap. 4 and 12.
[138] Sum of Perfection, book ii. part iii. chap. 10.
[139] Invention of Verity, chap. 4.
[140] Sum of Perfection, book i. part iii. chap. 8.
[141] Ibid., book i. part iii. chap. 8.
[142] Investigation of Perfections, chap. 11.
[143] See Testamentum Paracelsi, passim.
[144] “Hispania, Portugallia, Anglia, Borussia, Lithuania, Polonia, Pannonia, Valachia, Transylvania, Croatia, Illyrico, immo omnibus totius Europæ nationibus peragratis, undeque non solum apud medicos, sed et chirurgos, tonsores, aniculas, magos, chymistas, nobiles ac ignobiles, optima, selectiora ac secretiora, quæ uspiam extarent remedia, inquisivi acriter.”—Præfatio Chirurgiæ Magnæ. Opera Paracelsi, tom. iii.
[145] See the dedication to his treatise De Gradibus et Compositionibus Receptorum et Naturalium. Opera Paracelsi, vol. ii. p. 144. I always refer to the folio edition of Paracelsus’s works, in three volumes, published at Geneva in 1658, by M. de Tournes, which is the edition in my possession.