Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1918 — Aristotle's Prescription. [ARTICLE]

Aristotle's Prescription.

A balsam for every ill. an ease for every ache, is translated by Steele from the “Secretum Secretorum.” supposed to have been written by the philosopher Aristotle for his pupil, Alexander the Great. The concoction consists of Juices of various fruits boiled down and seasoned with musk, ambergris and aloes, various highly expensive oils salted liberally with powdered pearls, rubies, sapphires, amethysts, emeralds, gold, etc., ill beTng guarded by appropriate magical precautions. Alexander, however, died at an early age from, excessive imbibing, not of the delectable mixtures prescribed by his mentor, but 0t the Juice of $e grape.