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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Vol. 6 of 18
In the 34th year of his age, when his reputation was at its height, he was appointed by the magistrates of Basie to deliver lectures in their town, and thus was the first public professor of chemistry in Europe; for before that time, the science was not taught in any university. In two ears he quarrelled with the magistrates about a m ical fee, and left the city. He rambled up and down the country, his disciples gradually forsook him, be sunk into the deepest dis. Sipation, being scarcely ever sober, and never chan ging his clothes, not even during the ui ht. At last, in the month of September 154-1. He di at Salzburg, after a few days illness, in the 47th year of his age. Though he boasted all his life long that he was in possession of the universal medicine, which be called elixir proprietatis, by which he could not only cure all disorders, but prolong his own life to an indefinite length, and he actually talked of living to the age of Methuselah.
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