Throughout history, alchemists, naturalists, and pharmacists have tried to explore the world around them, searching for crude drugs and rituals that would make immortality possible. According to some scholars many may have created preparations under their own name in order to achieve immortality (Watson, 1966). Their remedies were often called “elixirs of life” (Elixir vitae) and according to Mahdihassan (1976), the term “elixir” began to be used as early as the turn of the common era and was a common subject in art (see Figure 1). Contrary to obvious associations, the term was not reserved for hoax preparations only, but was the name of a drug form in general.