| Show Al chemists aided science alchemy the forerunner of the modern science of chemistry was responsible for many of the basic facts known to chemists of the present jp resent the al chemists labored however in a forlorn cause for they sought to turn baser metals into inlo gold and silver but despite their best methods they never succeeded they employed a red preparation known as philosophers stone which they believed would it if melted together with the baser metals produce gold while a white preparation was supposed to produce silver this same magical glen substance was also given wide medical powers by the superstitious and was a sort of cure all forerunner of some of the modern cure alls the work of the al chemists mystified the populace and they were often suspected of possessing the powers I 1 of a wizard most of the ruling houses of the early centuries had al 1 chemists attached to the royal household |
