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quaeque utilitates ex rebus iis
Ex quibus multisque aliis perspicuum est, qui fructus quaeque utilitates ex rebus iis, quae sint inanimae, percipiantur, eas nos nullo modo sine hominum manu atque opera capere potuisse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

quspiam extarent remedia inquisivi
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, quspiam extarent remedia, inquisivi acriter.”
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson


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