Word: hermeticism
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Raw mercury fetches $1 a pound, but evil accompanies the wealth. Quicksilver is a. fickle metal. It is poisonous and those who work with it are usually affected. The pure metal may be absorbed by the skin or the vapors inhaled. Alchemists discovered this as they did most other facts...
Shakespeare's contemporaries carried on their persons, usually in rings, certain "stones" cut from the heads of big, old toads. Toad-stones "touching any part envenomed by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other venomous beast, ceases the pain and swelling thereof." This hermetic treatment seems to...
In the year 1825, on the union of the Hermetic Society of 1813 and the "Akribologoumenoi" of 1823 with the Speaking Club, the name of the combined societies became the Institute of 1770. Catalogues have been published at various periods of its existence, from which we learn that its first...