| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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in alchemy, was that agent which brought about the transmutation of metals, or renewed old age; the philosopher’s stone, and the elixir of life. | 1 |
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| “How much unlike art thou, Mark Antony! |
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Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra i. 5. |
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Father of Medicine. Aretæos of Cappado’cia, who lived at the close of the first and beginning of the second century, and Hippoc’rat s of Cos (B.C. 460–357) are both so called. | 2 |
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