Possible Clues:

• Chemistry forerunner
• Edge covered by baked clay -- an old science
• With aluminium taps, yours truly's saving energy for pseudo-science
• Study of transformations
• Attempts to convert base metals to gold
• Ancient pseudoscience
• Protoscience, one aim of which was to transmute base into noble metals
• Left in pain by my medieval science
• Heal Charlie badly with my dubious branch of science
• Old pseudo chemistry