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Sarkantyús, and those who won't take it willingly will have it crammed down their throats by force, and it will be also sprinkled in all the wells of drinking water that the people may get some of it that way. It will therefore be much better to make the acquaintance of vismuthum in a friendly manner, than go to the devil one way or other for not taking it."
Vismuthum is a powder, or rather a fluid, or perhaps 'twere better to say a powder of a a quite indefinable colour. It is prepared in all sorts of ways, and has no particular odour, and in substance much resembles piskotum. Everyone who partakes of it instantly becomes quite well again.
Kordé resumed his learned instructions as follows: "If, nevertheless, anyone, despite these wise regulations, should catch the morbus, there is only one antidote, the name whereof is Vismuthum. Vismuthum, vismuthi, neuter gender, second declension. In Hungarian viszmuta, in Slovak vismuthium, in English bismuth."
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