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Elixir of Youth

Talbot, C.H. "The elixir of youth." In Chaucer and Middle English studies in honour ofR.H. Robbins, ed. B. Rowland, 31-42. London Allen Unwin, 1974. [Pg.247]

Elixirs of youth are perpetual motion machines of the second kind. They violate the second law of thermodynamics. Life is highly organized and requires energy to maintain this order, a machine (the fountain of youth) that can magically create order out of the normal process of the forward arrow of time must violate the second law. [Pg.51]

Hobbs, C. 1991. Ginkgo, elixir of youth Modem medidne from an ancient tree. Capitola, CA Botanica Press. [Pg.412]

Another goal of the alchemists was to find the elixir of life, a substance that could restore lost youth and prolong human life far beyond the usual span, up to a thousand years, according to some. Paracelsus never made such excessive claims, but he did administer a... [Pg.43]

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