E 4 ELEMENTS 12
HOW TO FIX ALL EARTHLY THINGS IN OUR QUINTE ESSENCE 13

BOOK II.

HOW TO MAKE AN OLD EVANGELIC MAN YOUNG 15
HOW TO CURE A MAN GIVEN UP BY DOCTORS 15
HOW TO CURE THE LEPROSY 16
HOW TO CURE THE PALSY 16
HOW TO FATTEN LEAN AND CONSUMPTIVE MEN 17
HOW TO CURE FRENSY, GOUT, AND TROUBLES FROM DEVILS,
WICKED THOUGHTS, ETC. 17
AND HOW OUR QUINTE ESSENCE IS HEAVEN 19
HOW TO CURE THE GOUT 19
HOW TO CURE THE ITCH, AND KILL LICE 19
HOW TO CURE QUARTAN FEVER 20
HOW TO CURE CONTINUAL (CHRONIC) FEVER 21
HOW TO CURE TERTIAN FEVER 21
HOW TO CURE DAILY OR QUOTIDIAN FEVER 21
HOW TO CURE AGUE, FEVER, AND LUNACY 22
HOW TO CURE FRENZY AND MADNESS 22
HOW TO CURE CRAMP 22
HOW TO CAST POISON OUT OF A MAN'S BODY 23
HOW TO MAKE A COWARD BOLD AND STRONG 23
HOW TO CURE PESTILENTIAL FEVER 23
HOW THIS QUINTE ESSENCE IS FOR HOLY MEN ONLY 25

THE SPHERES AND THE PLANETS 26
MR. GILL'S NOTES ON THE CHEMISTRY OF THE TEXT 27
GLOSSARY 29

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THE BOOK OF QUINTE ESSENCE
OR THE FIFTH BEING;
THAT IS TO SAY,
MAN'S HEAVEN.

[[Sloane MS. 73, fol. 10. Brit. Mus.]]

BOOK I.

[[Fol. 10.]]

[By the grace of God I translate you this Treatise revealed to
Hermes by an angel after Noah's flood, that the knowledge of
this book may be preserved to the end of the world.]

With [th]e my[gh]t, wisdom, & grace of [th]e holy trynite, I write
to [gh]ou a tretice in englisch breuely drawe out of [th]e
book of quintis
e{ss}encijs in latyn, [th]{a}t hermys [th]e p{r