A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c20.4

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i.e of an oxide, as immediately below he figuratively speaks of the resurrection of the dead (p. 120). Indeed, the ideas of the alchemists of the East and the West ran so closely on parallel lines that the best commentary we can offer to the above is the following extract from Hoefer's work, describing the notions current among the old Egyptinas.