Produced by Chris Curnow, Thiers Halliwell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s notes: In this transcription, paired _underscores_ denote italicised text and paired =equals= signs denote bold text. The text contains uncommon typographic characters that will not necessarily display correctly with all viewing devices. If some of the characters look abnormal, first ensure that your device’s ‘character encoding’ is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You might also need to change the default font to one of the less common fonts such as Arial Unicode MS, DejaVu, FreeSerif, or Segoe UI Symbol. The text contains many numeric fractions, some of which are indistinct and the accuracy of their transcription cannot be guaranteed. Errors and inconsistencies: Punctuation anomalies have been corrected silently (e.g. missing periods, commas and semicolons, incorrect or missing quotation marks, unpaired parentheses). Inconsistent spellings such as those below have not been altered: chrystals/crystals chrystallized/crystallized table-spoonful/tablespoonful tea-spoonful/teaspoonful casters/castors. Unambiguous typographic errors have been corrected silently in the body of the text, but are listed at the end of the transcription. Archaic spellings have not been altered, e.g. River Platte, drouth (drought), maleable, inclosed. Several redundant duplications of the words ‘the’ and ‘to’ have been deleted. An omitted word (‘way’) has been inserted as [way], and several missing degree symbols have been inserted silently. Index entries are not in strict alphabetic sequence. Headings and captions do not have consistent styles (font, punctuation). * * * * * [Illustration: Signed sketch of author Yours truly, Wm. K. David.] SECRETS OF WISE MEN, CHEMISTS AND GREAT PHYSICIANS. COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY WM. K. DAVID, AUTHOR OF THE SHORT-RULE ARITHMETIC AND ACCOUNTANT’S REFEREE, PERPETUAL DISK CALENDARS, ETC. Thirty-Eight Illustrations. 1889. WM. K. DAVID PUBLISHER, LOCK BOX 507, CHICAGO. Copyright, 1889, --By-- WM. K. DAVID. The following sent to any part of the world on receipt of price: