From the PrefaceTwentiethcentury alchemist, Frater Albertus, planned on writing a work titled, The Book on Antimony, which, to my knowledge never manifested. The book was to spark interest in preparations of antimony for medicinal use based on spagyric and alchemical principles. In the transition of alchemy to modern chemistry, many valuable ideas, techniques, and products were pushed aside to make room for updated approaches. In England, discussion of alchemical topics was discouraged and later banned in meetings of the Royal Society in favor of the new model of chemical principles. Soon, alchemy disappeared as a bad dream of our ancestors and those who could understand its methods were spread far and few between. There have always been alchemists working in the shadows through time. Frater Albertus pulled alchemy out and into the light on a global scale, as a legitimate avenue of research into new medicines and materials. Part of his research involved preparations of antimony, based especially on the writings of the alchemist Basil Valentine in his Triumphal Chariot of Antimony which first appeared around 1604. Frater Albertus hoped to gather enough information together on how to prepare antimony in a variety of ways to produce powerful agents unknown to modern medicine, and also to accumulate as much analytical information on the products as possible so that medical evaluation could more easily be suggested. He taught much of this technology worldwide for many years. I...

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