a great part of a large fortune in buying gold Many years ago T knew aman who expended faPcoin and in. bars. 'This he melted' nnd with human blood and other unique gradients, Inboured secretly to prepare mixture that should arrest all disease, renew vitality, and prolong life indefinitely. ' I need hardly say that he failed. Not only did fail, but one day an explosion took place in hia laboratory which destroyed the fruits of his toil and left him senseless and badly wounded amid the wreck, 'The' rest of his lat man who tried that same experiment, not by thousands, find the elixir of life was one of the main purposes of the science of alchemy, the barbaric Ancestor of the modern science of chemistry. But all that is now discredited. No doctor or atudent, of healing even pretends to possess an essence of life, undertaken, however, and successfully, is ascertain the truth about nature's functions, Ip her perform them oded by disease. what can be done on this
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