exhibit curative virtues of a potential sort hitherto latent, and altogether unsuspected.
The
avowed object of this advanced pharmacy was so to prepare each
substance that the whole of its capabilities for cure should be
determined, and helpfully applied, within, or without the body.
Diseases were regarded by the Master as dynamic derangements of our
vital, (in a sense spiritual) principle, and therefore amenable to the
ultimate (spiritual) potencies which exist innate within the innermost
nature of medicaments. He maintained, (and with much experimental show
of reason) that all such medicaments become, for curative purposes,
more powerful as they are rendered more attenuated. Unhesitatingly
adopting which view, (strengthened, and confirmed to-day by the fresh
researches, and discoveries of modern science,) we contend that valid
grounds warrant us in believing that Precious Stones, and the more
noble Metals, bring to bear (by their innate highly subtilised
principles) on the persons of their wearers positive physical results,
in close, and immediate accordance with the component medicinal
constituents which they have been proved by analysis to include within
their substance. Each Precious Stone, and each Noble Metal, as adduced
forward in these our pages, is shown to possess this, or that
constituent element, of a medicinal sort, however refined ; and for
each of the same on this account are physical effects on the body, and
mind of their employer, claimed. Furthermore, it is not to be doubted,
(as our direct evidence makes certain,) that outward uses of such
Precious Stones, and Noble Metals serve to effect sensible, and
trustworthy beneficial ends on both body, and mind, when judiciously,
and learnedly ordered.
