{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/app/app73.htm","path":"cla/app/app73.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/app/app73.htm","text":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers, by Kathleen Freeman, [1948]\nB\u00f4lus of Mend\u00ea in the Nile Delta, lived in the third century B.C.\nHe wrote works on Potent Natural Products, and on Antipathetic and Sympathetic Substances, which were often ascribed to Democritus; these were books of magic remedies. He also wrote other works of magical doctrine, on alchemy and divination.","title":"Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 78. B\u00f4lus of Mend\u00ea","type":"page"}