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Secret Teachings of All Ages
Hermetic Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Therapeutics (42)
Poisons were thoroughly studied, and in some communities extracts of deadly herbs were administered to persons sentenced to death--as in the case of Socrates. The infamous Borgias of Italy developed the art of poisoning to its highest degree. Unnumbered brilliant men and women were quietly and efficiently disposed of by the almost superhuman knowledge of chemistry which for many centuries was preserved in the Borgia family.
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (159)
Poison, wherein we poor Men now in this World have enough to chew upon, and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the Flesh.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (115)
Physician inquires of the sick Person, from what his Disease proceeds, and takes that which is the Cause of the Disease, whether it be Flesh, Water, o...