(n) :
chemistry and in particular pharmaceuticalchemistry (as practised in the Middle Ages); searching for a panacea; the speculative medieval philosophical art of changing objects from one element into another, principally (historically) attempting to turn lead and other base metals into gold; pseudo-science
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(n) :
chemistry and in particular pharmaceuticalchemistry (as practised in the Middle Ages); searching for a panacea; the speculative medieval philosophical art of changing objects from one element into another, principally (historically) attempting to turn lead and other base metals into gold; pseudo-science