"From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, s..." — Paracelsus

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.