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Among the curious drugs whose powers were believed in there is none to which the people of these days of the seventeenth century gave more importance than the so-called " potable gold, " which means " drinkable gold. " Believing that in astrology the sun was the most powerful or potent of all the heavenly bodies, and believing also that there was the greatest sympathy between the sun and the metal astrologers thought be- longed to it gold, they reached the wise con- clusion that if gold could b...e made to serve as a drug, its effect as a curer of all ills must exceed that of any other remedy. It is hardly worth while to run over even a list 2lo When America Was New of the mo. Re important things that were thought to be curative in effect. It is like reading ex- tracts from some pretended magician's book in an old fairy tale. For instance, there is the " bezoar-stone, " which was supposed to be an antidote for all sorts of poisons and was believed to be found in the inside of a wild goat of the East.
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