The potable balsome of life. Being a collection of the choicest preservatives ... within the three natural families of minerals, vegetables and animals, reduced into such essences and tinctures by the scientifick art of chymie, which constitute a radical and cordial balsamick liquor ... By which the bodies which are in health may be preserved, the growth of distempers intercepted, and diseases already confirmed, totally erradicated
P. Belon