Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prize Essay on Ardent Spirits, and Its Substitutes as a Means of Invigorating Health
With a knowledge of the process of distillation, and impelled by a motive so strong as the hope of finding an elixir, a single draught of which would confer an immunity from disease, decay, and death, the alchemists could hardly have failed early to subject to this process every kind of be verage which was known to exert an exhilarating in?uence upon the actions of life, The infatua tions of alchemy still existed in China in times comparatively modern, for me? Kfnhg'; three of her kings, two In the ninth, Mai? And one In the Sixteenth century, pe rished from a draught of the elixir of life, prepared by the alchemists, and taken with a view to at tain to immortality.
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