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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Anthony Francis, Famous Quack

This never fails to crack me up:

Anthony Francis: Seventeenth century quack physician and alchemist. Claimed ability to dissolve gold into a universal remedy.

- Wedeck, Harry E.
A Treasury of Witchcraft: A Sourcebook of the Magic Arts., p196. Avenel, New Jersey: Gramercy Books. 1961.

If only I knew all the things I've been doing...

-the Centaur

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