"[T]here is a similarity easily detected between the hieroglyphics and the alchemical signs."

"The phraseology in the early treatises is similar to that in the priestly writings."

"[N]ote the important part played by the number four with the alchemists as well as with the Egyptian priests. There a…"

"This History has been written because of a conviction, from my own experience and experience with my students, that o…"

"Free use has been made of all the chief authorities; the historical works of Kopp, Berthelot, Hoefer, Thomson, Ernst …"

"The ovum from which chemistry has... slowly evolved seems to have been sorcery and magic."

"The word χημεία occurs first in the writings of Suidas, a Greek lexicographer of the eleventh century. It is there de…"

"Plutarch tells us that Chemia was a name given Egypt on account of the black soil, and that this term further meant t…"

"The Coptic word khems or chems is closely related to this, and also signifies obscure, occult, and with this is conne…"

"The almost universal tradition among alchemists is that their art was first cultivated among the Egyptians, and that …"