Alchemy

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were. Basically they saw easy money and would waste their lives and money to find out how to get it.

There was another side to alchemy them just changing lead into gold, people not only wanted to be rich but they also wanted to live forever. The Elixir was the substance that would extend the life of the user. They thought that the elixir would start its own transformation in the human body, incorruptibility and hence longevity. (Halleux 140) By making these substances would sometimes get the opposite effect of what they were intended, because sometimes unwittingly they would make a poison instead of “The Elixir of Life”. Most of the times the alchemists test subjects were themselves they would soon find the mistake that they had made. However there were many people who relied on trickery to succeed in their field.

One of the most important parts of alchemy is, the fraud, people would lie and trick other people into believing them, because if people believed in them then a patron ...

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