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A67915	Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal / written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymous, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont, Dr. Fr. Antonie ... [et al.].; Collectanea chymica.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus. Secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest. Latin and English.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644. Praecipiolum.; Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Aurum-potabile.; Bernard, of Trevisan. De lapide philosophorum. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Bosome-book.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl.; Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine.; H. V. D. Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5103; ESTC R5297	83,404	240

away from the Gold again take your Glass out of the Furnace or out of the Sand copel scrape your Gold with the crooked Iron again out of your Retort and you shall find that your Gold is much encreased if you should weigh it the reason is your Gold is the Load-stone which hath attracted the Praecipiolum or your Gold is the Cask wherein the Philosophers Wine hath let fall its Tartar which Paracelsus Helmont calls Praecipiolum Now how shall the Philosophical Tartar or Praecipiolum be separated from our Gold Take your Gold which you have scraped out of the Retort and put it into your Glassen Morter and pouder it very small with your Glass Pestel and mingle your Mercury by degrees as by little and little Your Mercury will hardly mix with the Gold the reason is the Gold is full of the Praecipiolum and then it is time to separate the Praecipiolum from the Gold and Mercury which is a Womans work when her Cloaths are foul she washeth them from their foulness The same way you must cleanse your Praecipiolum from your Gold and Mercury as followeth When you have the sign that your Mercury will hardly mix with your Gold and your Gold will not enter into your Mercurium vivum then power on it the clearest and fairest Water distilled is best that it may go over three Fingers breadth your Gold and Mercury then wash it well stirring it with your Pestel the Gold and the Mercury and the Water together which is in the Morter I say you shall wash it together very well until you see your Water is discoloured blewish black Then is the sign that the Gold doth let fall the Tartarum or Praecipiolum in the Water and maketh it blewish black then power off the Water into a Glass observe that not any Mercury may fall with the powring out the blewish Water then powr more fresh Water upon your Gold and Mercury and wash it again as is mentioned and when your Water is blew again powr off the Water to the former Water in the Glass and thus continue washing till your Water remain white then power this Water to the other Water in the Glass and cover your Glass very close that not any foulness may fall into the Glass Observe that your Gold will go again into the Mercury when that Praecip●olum is washed away as Wax goes in melted Butter Take your Amalgama abovesaid make it dry upon warm Ashes very softly with a Spunge and by a little heat that the Amalgama may be dryed and when it is dry put it again in the Retort and distil it as is before mentioned wit● the Mercury as with cohobating that is to say in distilling your Mercury so often from the Gold that the Gold will hardly mix with the Mercury and this is the sign that the Gold hath attracted enough from the Praecipiolum and then it is time to separate with washing your Praecipiolum from your Amalgama Now observe I gave you Charge that you should keep your Glass wherein you put your blewish Water which will be clear and a Powder settled at the bottom which is some of the Praecipiolum Then power off the clear Water from the Praecipiolum without disturbing the Water as soon as you can into another Glass Now when you have that sign that your Gold will not mix well with your Mercury or not without great Trouble then power the same Water which you powred off from your Praecipiolum into another Glass as it is mentioned upon your Amalgama and wash it again and when your Water is blewish power off the Water to your Praecipiolum into another Glass as it is afore mentioned upon your Amalgama and wash it again till all your Water hath washed away the Praecipiolum and then stop your Glass again that no foulness fall into it then take your Amalgama and dry it again very gently and distil again as is mentioned till you have the sign and then you shall wash it again with the first Water and you shall find that your Praecipiolum will Augment or increase daily● Thus stilling and washing shall you continue till the Mercury is freed from its Mercury coagulated or Praecipiolum Observe if the Water should grow less add to it now and then fresh Water Now the sign is when the Mercurius hath lost all its Sperm or its Tartar or its Mercury coagulate or its Praecipiolum The Mercury and the Gold will mix always well together and if you should distil it a thousand times that Gold and Mercury the one from the other and if you should wash it a thousand times the one from the other with fresh Water the Water will be clear not blewish and so long as the Praecipiolum is in the Mercury the Gold and Mercury will hardly mingle one with another and then when you would have it mix together you must wash it and then it will lovingly mix again when it is washed So I say when your Praecipiolum is all separated from the Mercury if you should a thousand times distil your Mercury from your Gold it will mingle always lovingly together and you will not find any Powder left it will go all into the Mercury and your Water remain clear and white Now further to our intent as to make or prepare your Praecipiolum for a Medicine power your clear Water from the Powder which lyes at the bottom in the Glass that no Water may be left by the Powder Put the Glass upon a little warm Ashes that the Powder may be dryed the Powder will look blewish yellow also put the powder into a little Cucurbit Glass and distil five or six times Spiritus vini from it then your Praecipiolum is made ready for a Medicine The Dose two Grains or three at the most Compositio Aquae Albuminum Ovorum Take a good quantity of Eggs boyl them very hard then take the Whites and cut them very small and distil them per Cineres per Alembicum very softly till you have gotten all the Water from the Whites ●hen take the Egg-shels burn them to Ashes and put those in a Retort and power upon them their own Water and distil it per arenam very strongly and then power this Water upon the Ashes again and distil it again thus continue five or six ●imes the Water is ready for the Praecipiolum the Mercurys coagulated Salt You may remember I gave you Instruction that you should pour off the clear Water from the Praecipiolum and you should make dry the Praecipiolum and that Praecipiolum bring to a Medicinal Powder or you shall bring all Mettals Principally his own Body into his first matter which cannot be done without the Praecipiolum Salt which is hidden in the Water you powred from the Praecipiolum the same Water filter through a gray paper and set the Water to evaporate in a round Glass v●ry softly in Ashes when the Water is evaporated away you shall find at the bottom of the Glass a yellow whitish

Salt which is the Salt of the Praecipiolum and the Clavi● of the Philosophers wherewith they do unlock the Lock of the Praecipioli and bringeth the same to his first matter If you know not this Salt you know nothing of the true Chymistry This Salt doth decrease in the decrease of the Moon and increaseth at the full-Moon and one Grain will Purge very softly all Podagrous Venemous and Hydropical Humors with two Grains of your Praecipioli prepared How to bring the Praecipiolum into his first or slippery matter Take your Salt and twice as much of your Praecipolum when it is made dry first dissolve your Salt in fair warm Water and power it upon the Praecipiolum and evaporate it away very gently in warm Ashes with a gentle Fire then take your Praecipiolum with its one Salt and put it into a little Retort nip the Neck of the Retort very close or melt it together or Seal it with Hermes Seal then put it into Balneum vaperojum and let it stand six Weeks in digestion or to put●ifie and it will turn to a slimy Water then take your Retort and open the Neck then lay your Retort in a Sand Furnace and cover your Retort with an Earthen Pan and lay a Receiver well luted and first give a slow Fire then a stronger and this continue till your Spirits be well resolved into Water first your Spirit will come in form of a white Cloud and at last in the form of red Clou●s or red Smoak and give Fire so long till all your Spirits be come over into clear white Water and when you have this sign take your Receiver from the Retort an● stop the Receiver very well with Wax that no Spirit may fly away Then let your Fire go out then take the matter which remaineth in the Retort out of the Retort and put the same into a Bolthead and stop it well and set it in a warm place then take your Spirits which are in the Receiver and rectifie them once and keep those Spirits very carefully Observe this you may remember when the Praecipiolon hath lost its Mercury that the same Mercury will be so bright as a Venus Lookinglass take the same bright Mercury and dissolve him in your before-mentioned Spirit as now followeth Take one part of your bright Mercury and put it into a Bolthead and power upon it two parts of your Spirit of Mercury and stop it very close and let it stand in a little warmth and the Mercury will dissolve or melt in your Spirit and then distil it together through a Retort in Sand and again take one part of your bright Mercury and put it into a Bolthead and power upon it two parts of your Spirit and set it in a warm place and the Mercury will melt in the Spirit● then distil again through a Retort in Sand and it will come over in the form of Water this continue as long until the half part of your bright Mercury is brought to a clear Water when yo● have this clear Water keep it very close stopped with Wax and take your Powder which I gave you to keep in a Bolt-head and place it very deep in a Sand Copel and give it a very strong Fire for twenty and four Hours then let the Fire go out of the said Copel and stir the Powder with a Wooden-stick and power upon it the half part of your clean Mercurial Water and stop the Glass or melt the Glass-mouth together then shake it and let it stand in a warm place for three or four days in digestion powr off this into another Glass and powr upon the remainder of the Powder another half of the Water and stop or melt the mouth of the Glass again and let it stand again for three or four days in a warm place in digestion then powr it out to the former Water and stop the Glass or melt the mouth of the Glass very close that no Spirit may fly out or fly away and let it stand in your Balneo Vaporoso eight days and then distil it through a Retort and if any stuff shall remain in the Retort which will be very little powr upon it your Spirit again and distil it over until all is gone over Now is the Salt with his own Spirit mixt together and brought into the first matter keep it very well stopped This is the Water that the Philosophers have given divers yea above a hundred Names unto it as their Horse-dung their Balneum Mariae their Calx Vive and in short this is the Philosophers true Fire without this Fire or Water no man can do any true Work in Chimistry The Philosophers having brought forth this Salamander which Salamander will never waste in the Fire the longer the stronger This Water will increase or multiply per Infinitum that is to say if all the Sea should be Mercury it will turn the same into the first matter First you must wash your Mercury with Salt and Vinegar divers times and at last with Water to wash away the Salt then mix this Mercury with Calx Vive and calcined Tartar and distil it in a Retort in a Sand Furnace and lay to it a Receiver filled almost half●full with Water and when your Mercury is dry then squeeze him eight or ten times through Leather and then is your Mercury well purged from his uncleanness This is the Mercury you shall use in multiplying your Spirit ●r Astrum Mercurii Take of this Mercury purged one part and of your Spirit or Astrum Mercurii two parts put them together mixt into a Bolt-head stop well the Bolt-head and let it stand in a warm place one Night and your Mercury will melt in your Spirit or Astrum Mercurii and turn it into Water and then distil it through a Retort and thus you may do by repeating your Water with fresh Mercury as long as you please This Water will bring or dissolve all Stones and Gold and Silver into their first matter Item it will bring Gold and Silver over with him through a Retort and that Gold and Silver will never be separated one from the other The reason is Gold and Silver and all metals be of the same Nature and have beginning from the same Water there is nothing in the World but hath its beginning from it The Vniversal Medicine Take of fine Gold that is made fine Powder that is to say take the same Gold which did remain when you made your Praecipiolum one part of your finest Silver made to fine Powder two parts put every metal by it self into a Glass power upon each your Astrum Mercurii that it may go over it one finger breadth and stop each Glass very close and let it stand in a warm place for eight days together and your Gold and Silver will be almost dissolved into Water then powr off the Water every one by it self in a Glass and power more Water to the Gold and Silver which did remain and let it

stand eight days in a warm place and then powr your Waters off to your former Waters and all your Gold and Silver will be dissolved into Water and there will r●●ain some faeces then take of both these Waters of each the fourth part and put them together in a Bolt-head that no more of the Bolt-head be empty then three parts and Seal your Bolt-head or melt your Bolt-head mouth very close and put your Bolt-head into an Athanor with your matter into a continual warm heat until it do come to a fixed red Stone or Powder before it do come to a red Powder will appear in your Bolt-head many Colours as black green yellow and red and when it is red and a Powder then take your Bolt-head and bu●y it in a Sand Copel very deep and give by degrees Fire● and at last a very strong Fire and it will melt as Wax and let it stand one whole week or the longer the better then take it out and let it cool and break your Glass and you will find a fixt Stone or Powder as red as Scarlet I did give you Charge that you should keep three parts of your Gold and Silver which was dissolved into Water out both these Waters together in a Retort dis●il them and both the Gold and Silver will go with the Water over through the Re●ort with which Water you shall multiply your Medicine Now take one part of your Medicine made into fine Powder and put it into a little Bolt-head and poure upon it twice as much of your Water as of Gold and Silver and Seal it again and set it into your Athanor again until it do come into a red Powder and then put it again into the Sand for ●o give him the Fixation that he may melt ●ike Wax Upon such a way you may mul●iply your Medicine ad Infinitum and your Powder will dissolve in any Liquor Now as to make your Astrum Horizontale or your Golden fixt Praecipitate Take the Gold that remaineth over in the working of your Praecipiolum and make it ●nto a Powder dissolve it in your Astrum Mer●●rii as much as you will distil through the Retort once or twice and your Gold will go over along with your Water and will never be separated one from the other they are ●oth of one Nature Now take your Praecipiolum which is made dry I do not mean your Praecipiolum which is made already dry to a Medicine put i● into a little Glass Cucurbit and pour up●on it your Golden Astrum Mercurii an● distil it from it three or four times very slow●ly and at last very strong and your Praecipiolum will be red and fixed if you will yo● may do the same with Mercury purged i● will fix the same to a red Powder and you may do this work with Silver and with your Praecipiolum or Argentum vivum purg●tum No man can find out all those Secret● which are hidden in this Philosophical Menstruum The Oyl of Gold Take one part of Gold five or six part● of the best Mercury mix them both together and then distil the Mercury from the Gold and then mix the same Mercury again with the Gold and this continue until your Gold will not mix with your Mercury then take the Gold and grind it and put it into a clean Crusible and Calcine it till it be almost red-hot and then extinguish your Gold in the best rectified Spirit of Vineger when it is extinguished pour off your Vineger from the Gold● make your ●old dry and then make it hot again then ●gain extinguish it in your former Vineger ●nd this repeat five or six times and then ●●ke your Gold and make it dry and Amal●ame it again with the aforementioned Mercury and distil it again as at the first ●nd this do so long until the Gold will not ●ix with your Mercury and then Calcine ●our Gold again and extinguish it in the ●ormer Vineger five or six times if your Vi●eger decay or waste you may add to it some more fresh Vineger And this you may con●inue until you think there is no strength ●est in your Mercury Then you must take ●resh Mercury and go to work as before and ●o continue till you think you have enough ●rom the Gold Then take your Vineger which is impregnated with the whole Essence of Gold Evaporate it or distil it very softly off and it will lye at the bottom like a yellow Salt which you shall dissolve in fair distilled Rain Water filter it and evaporate it again softly and then put it into a little Retort and place it in Sand with an indifferent large Receiver for it and give a Fire by degrees and it will come over in a white Spirit like Smoak and then i● will come over ●ed like Saffron● and when it is resolved into a red Liquor let the Fire go out and keep it for use the Dose is three or four drops This is saith the Author one of the greatest Medicines under the Sun and you can hardly get a better Three drops are able to extinguish any sickness and in this Oyl of Gold is the greatest Secret of Nature With this Liquor Reymond Lully figureth Mercury in Exenterata Naturae These Processes was by a German given to Mr. Richard Pratt who lived some time in Hantshire and cured the German of a Sickness for which Kindness the German gave him these Processes protesting that they were some of Van-Helmonts and Mr. Pratt gave them to Mr. Yalden minister of Compton near Godlyman in Surry who sent them to Dr. Salmon to Print which he neglecting some Years they were sent with Dr. Antonies's Recipe of his Aurum potabile to William Cooper to Print for the benefit of the Publick and since I receiv'd them I find Dr. Salmon hath newly Printed them in his Doron Medicum called Liquor Aureus Lib. 2 d. Book 11. Sect. 2. page 520 to 523. As for the Electrum minerale Immaturum which he calls Idea vide Doron lib. 1. Cap. 27. page 315. to 326. But so very much mangled and altered by putting in feigned Names when indeed he receiv'd all of them in their proper known Names as you have them here Printed one purpose to prevent mens being deceived for Mr. Yalden is a Man of so Christian a Temper that he thirsteth to do all the good he could in this World the Truth hereof his poor Parishioners and Neighbours will sufficiently testifie Therefore to undeceive the World and to save men from false Broyleries and Chargeable Expenses I have here Printed the true Copy as Mr. Yalden sent it to me W. C. B. FINIS AVRVM-POTABILE OR THE RECEIT OF Dr. FR. ANTONIE SHEWING His Way and Method how he made and prepared that most Excellent Medicine for the Body of Man LONDON Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1683. Dr. Fr. Anthonie's Receit shewing the way to make his most Excellent Medicine called Aurum Potabile TAke Block-tinn and burn it

the Neck of the Retort which close well together that no fume issue forth of the Receiver Then encrease your Fire by little and little till the fume which issueth be reddish then continue the greater Fire until drops like blood come forth and no more fume will issue forth and when that leaveth bleeding let it cool or asswage the Fire by little and little and when all things are cold then take away the Receiver and close it fast suddenly that the Spirits vanish not away for this Liquor is called our blessed Liquor which Liquor keep close stopped in a Glass till hereafter Then look into the Neck of the Retort and therein you shall find a white hard Ryme as it were the Congelation of a Frosty vapour or much like sublimate which gather with diligence and keep it apart for therein are contained great Secrets which shall be shewed hereafter after the great Work is ended The Creation of our Basis. Then take out all the Feces which remaineth in the Retort and are blackish like unto Soot which Feces are called our Dragon of which feces Calcyne one pound or more at your pleasure in a fervent hot Fire in a Potters or Glass-makers Furnace or in a Furnace of vente or a Wind Furnace until it become a white Calx as white as Snow which white Calx keep well and clean by it self for it is called the Basis and Foundation of the Work and it is now called Mars and our white fixed Earth or ferrum Philosophorum The Calcination of the black Feces called our black Dragon Then take all the rest of the aforesaid black Feces or black Dragon and spread them somewhat thin upon a clean Marble or other fit Stone and put into the one side thereof a burning Coal and the Fire will glide through the Feces within half an Hour and Calcyne them into a Citrine Colour very glorious to behold The Solution of the said Feces Then dissolve those Citrine Feces in such distilled Vinegar as you did before and then filter it likewise three times as before and after make o● evaporate it to a Gum again and then draw out of it more of our Mens●ruum called now Dragon● Blood and ●terate this Work in all points as afore un●il you have either brought all or the most part of the Feces into our Natural and blessed Liquor all which Liquor put to the first Liquor or Menstrue called the Green Lyons Blood and set that Liquor then altogether in one Vessel of Glass fourteen days in Putrification and after proceed to the Separation of Elements for now have you all the Fire of the Stone in this our blessed Liquor which before lay hidden in the Feces which Secret all the Philosophers do marvellously hide The Separation of the Elements whereof the first is the Air and is also counted our Ardent-Water and our Water Attractive Then put all the said putrified Menstruum into a Still of fine Venice Glass fit for the quantity thereof put on the Limbeck and close it to the Still with a fine Linnen Cloth dipt in the White of an Egg and then set it in Balneo Mariae put to the Receiver which must be of a great length that the Spirit respire not out again and with very temperate heat separate the Elements one from another and then the Element of Air will issue forth first which is an Oyl Our Ardent Water or Water Attractive is thus made When all the first Element is distilled● then in another Still fit for it rectify it tha● is to say distil it over 7 several times and until it will burn a Linnen Cloth clean up that is dipt in it when it is put to th● flame which then is called our Ardent Water rectified and is also called our Water Attractive which keep very close st●pped for otherwise the Spirit thereof which is very subtil will vanish away By often rectifying the Ardent Water there will come Aer in a white Oyl swimming above the Water and there will remain behind a yellow Oyl which with a stronger Fire will also come over Put Sublimate beaten small upon a Plate of Iron and in the cold it will dissolve into Water and filter it then and put upon it some of the Ardent Water and it will draw to it self all the Mercury in form of a green Oyl swimming aloft which separate and put into a Retort and distil first a Water and afterward will come a green thick Oyl which is the Oyl of Mercury The Flood or Water of the Stone Then draw out the Flood or Water of the Stone by it self in another Receptory which Liquor will be somwhat white and draw ●t with a very gentle Fire of Balneo until ●here remain in the bottom of the Still a ●hick Oily substance like unto liquid Pitch keep this Water by it self in a fit Glass very close stopped Note when the Liquor cometh white you must put on another Receiver for then all that Element is come over two or three drops of this black Liquid Oyl given in Spirit of Wine cureth all Poyson taken inwardly Our Mans Blood is thus made and rectified Then put our Ardent Water upon that Matter black and liquid stir them well together and let it so stand well covered for 3 Hours then decant and filter it put on fresh Ardent Water and repeat this Operation 3 times and then distil it again with a moist lent Fire of Balneo and so do three times and then it is called Mans blood rectified which the Workers in the Secrets of Nature do so seek and so hast thou the Elements exalted in the virtue of their quintessence namely the Flood that is Water and the Air let this Blood be kept for a season The Oyl or Fire or the Earth of the Stone Then put up the Flood or Water upon the black and soft matter or Earth of the Stone let them be well mingled together and then distil the whole until there remain in the bottom an Earth most dry and black which is the Earth of the Stone save the Oyl with the Water for a season close stopt in any wise The Fiery Water Then beat this black Earth into Powder and mingle it with Mans blood and so let it stand 3 Hours after that distil it on Ashes with a good Fire and Reiterate this work 3 times and then it shall be called Water of the Fire rectified and so hast thou three of the Elements exalted into the Virtue of the quintessence namely Water Air and Fire The Earth Then Calcine the Earth black and dry in Furnace of Reverberation until it become very fine white Calx The Water of Life which is our Mercury and our Lunary Then mingle with this white Calx the ●iery Water and distil it with a strong Fire all 〈◊〉 as before and Calcine the Earth again ●hat remaineth in the bottom of the Still ●nd then distil it again with a strong Fire ●s before and again Calcine it and thus

think you will find it in his best forme and of farthest extention when it is in his p●p or pulp for his Body is exceeding waterish and vanisheth away to a small sub●●ance if you seek to dry it This I write by mine own trial yet peradventure the Goord of Naples which he calleth Cucurbita may b● of a differing nature from our Pompions How to save much fl●wer● or meal that is lost in all our usual Corn mills that grind either with Wind or Water IF I teach the Miller so to grind his wheat as that neither the starchmaker if I be not deceived shall have stuff to make his starch with except he grind for himself after the a●cient manner nor the brown Baker any bran to make horsebread withal I hope that my fault will be pardonable at this time because I hold it much b●tter to want flower about our necks then in our bellies and that horses should s●●rve before their masters The conceit is short and easie and I hope without controlment Let every Mill that grindeth corn have also a boulting mill annexed unto it that the same mover may play upon both and by shaking of the boulter make a division of the bran from the flower This bran as soon as it is divided from the flower must be returned again into the hopper amongst the rest of the wheat that is unground and so as fast as you gather any bran you must mix it with more corn And by this means you shall have much less bran and also more flower though you would notwithstanding this course pass the same through a fine boulter again It is an usual manner in the higher part of Germany to boult with these mills but not to grind over their bran again in the first mill for ought that I know or as yet can learn How to make starch without any corn IT is well known that those Aaron-roots be●ore mentioned will make a white and delicate starch You must gather them in March or April washing them clean and paring away all the filth or foul skins from them and after slicing them into thin slices and so leaving th●m in fair clear water and changing your water every 12. hours for the space of four or five days till they become exceeding white and clean then stamp them and force them through a strainer with clean water and when the substance of the starch is setled in the bottom which will be in a few hours then drein away all the clear water that fleeteth on the top very gently and expose the rest being in flat earthen pans or clean tubs to the Sun which will attract or draw up all the water and leave a hard cake in the bottom But in the winter time when you cannot have the Sun of a sufficient force for this purpose then set your stone pans or pewter basons wherein you have strained out your starch upon a pot with s●alding water and so you may dry the same in a sufficient quantity for your own use all the year long And if you would harden the same without charge then place your pan upon your bief pot and so you shall make one fire to perform several actions at once But because these roots are not to be had in all places nor at all times of the year therefore for a second supply I have thought good to set down this receit following Take of the whitest Gum Arabique that you can buy at the Grocers let them beat the same into pieces for you as big as hasel nuts in their great morters then take 3. ounces of this Gum and first wash it in fair Conduit water in a Stone Bason stirring it up and down with your hands to take the filth from it then wash it again with some more water and pour that also away and then to every 3. ounces so washed put a wine pint of fair Conduit-Water stirring it up and down 3. or 4. times aday to procure a speedy solution or dissolving of the Gum Then cover your Pan and when all the Gum is dissolved strein the water through a clean and thin Linnen cloth and reserve the same in Glasses well stopt till you have cause to use it It will last sweet at the least three weeks after it is made When you would use this starch if you desire to have your ruffs to carry a pure and perfect white colour you must mingle some blew with the water stirring it up and down with your finger in a Porrenger and before the blew settle to the bottom wet your ruff therein and presently wring it out again then put it till it be clear and after set it as you do in your common starch I do find by experience that half the time that is lost in the other manner of starching is here gained For by reason that your starch is in a thin water the Lawn and Cambrick will be soon cleared and with much less beating And I think that a second profit will here likewise fall out by the way viz. That your Lawn and Cambrick will last much longer For if I be not deceived the continual patting or beating thereof between the hands in our usual starching worketh a great fretting and wearing of the same And I doubt not but that there be many other sorts of Grain Pulse and Roots which will make as good Starch as Wheat which at this time I leave unto the studious indeavours of those that are careful for the common good It may be that at my better leisure I may handle this subject more at large but now the present times inforce me to deliver that knowledg which I have And thus much for starch Sweet and delicate cakes made without Spice or Sugar SLice great and sweet Parsnep roots such as are not seeded into thin slices and having washed and scraped them clean dry them and beat them into powder here a mill would make a greater dispatch searcing the same through a fine searce then knead two parts of fine flower with one part of this powder and make the same into cakes and you shall find them to taste very daintily I have eaten of these cakes divers times in mine own house Quaere what may be done in Carots Turneps and such like roots after this manner Here I think it not impertinent to the purpose which I have in hand to wish a better survey to be made of my book of Husbandry being a parcel of the Jewel house of Art and Nature Printed an 1594. Wherein sundry new sorts of Marle are familiarly set down and published for the good of our English Farmers amongst the which those waste ashes of the Sope-boylers for such as dwell near unto the City of London or may by easie water carriage convey them unto their hungry and lean grounds have a principal place for the enriching of all cold moist and weeping grounds The book is to be had at the Peli●an in Little Britain And if there were

in the Urine beside Salt is unprofitable Phlegm 23. Q. How doth it appear that there is a plentiful Phlegm in Urine 24. A. Thus suppose first from the Taste secondly from the. Weight thirdly from the Virtue of it 25. Q. Be your own interpreter 26. A. The Salt of Urine contains all that i● properly essential to the Urine the smell whereof is very sharp the taste dif●ers according as it is differently ordered so that sometimes it is also Salt with an urinaceous Saltness 27. Q. What have you observed concerning● the weight thereof 28. A. I have observed thus much that three ounces or a ●ittle more of Urine taken from a healthy man will moderately outweigh about 80 Grains of Fountain● Water from whence also I have seen a Liquor distilled which was of equal weight to the said Water whence it is evident that most of the Salt was left behind 29. Q. What have you observed of its Virtue 30. A. The Congelation of Urine by cold is an Argument that Phlegm is in it for the Salt of Urine is not so congealed if a little moistned with a Liquid tho' it be Water 31. Q. But this same Phlegm tho most accurately separated by Destillation retains the Nature of Urine as may be perceived both by the smell and taste 32. A. I confess it tho little can be discerned by taste nor can you perceive more either by smell or taste than you may from Salt of Urine dissolved in pure Water 33. Q. What doth Pyrotechny teach you concerning Urine 34. A. It teacheth this to make the salt of Urine volatile 35. Q. What is then left 36. A. An earthly blackish stinking Dreg 37. Q. Is the Spirit wholly uniform 38. A. So it appeareth to the sight smell and taste and yet containeth qualities directly contrary to each other 39 Q. Which be they 40. A. By one through its innate Virtue the Dulech is coagulated by the other it i● dissolved 41. Q. What further 42. A. In the Coagulation of Urine it Spirit of Wine is discovered 43. Q. Is there such a Spirit in Urine 44. A. There is indeed truly residing i● every Urine even of the most healthful man most which may be prepared by Art 45. Q. Of what efficacy is this Spirit 46. A. Of such as is to be lamented and indeed may move our pitty to mankind 47. Q. Why so 48. A. From h●nce the Dulech its mos● fierce Enemy hath its original 49. Q. Will you give an Example of this thing 50. A. I will Take Urine and dissolve in it a convenient quantity of Salt-peter let it stand a Month afterwards distil it and there will come over a Spirit which burns upon the Tongue like a coal of Fire pour this Spirit on again and cohobate it 4 or 5 times abstracting every time not above half so the Spirit becometh most piercing yet not in the least sharp the heat which goeth out in the first destillation of the Liquor afterwards grows sensibly mild and at length almost if not altogether vanisheth and the second Spirit may be perceived mild both by the smell and taste which in the former was most sharp 51. Q. What have you observed concerning the former Spirit 52. A. If it be a little shaked oily streaks appear sliding here and there just as Spirit of Wine destills down the Head of the Alembick in streaks like Veins 53. Q. What kind of Putrefaction should the Urine undergo that such a Spirit may be got from it 54. A. In a heat scarce to be perceived by sense in a Vessel lightly closed or covered rather it may also be sometimes hotter sometimes cooler so that neither the heat nor cold exceed a due mean 55. Q. How may this winy Spirit become most perspicuous 56. A. By such a putrefaction which causeth a Ferment and exciteth ebullition which will not happen in a long time if the Urine be kept in a Wooden Vessel and in a place which is not hot but yet keeps out the cold as suppose behind a Furnace in Winter where let it be kept till of it self a ferment arise in the Urine and stirrs up bubbles for then you may draw from it a burning Water which is somewhat Winy 57. Q. Is there any other Spirit of Urine 58. A. There is for Urine putrified with a gentle heat the space of a fortnight o● thereabout sends forth a coagulating Spirit which will coagulate well rectified Aqua-Vitae ● 59. Q. How is that Spirit to be prepare● which forms the Duelech of it self with ● clear Watery stalagma and also that whic● dissolves the same 60. A. Urine putrified for a month an● half in a heat most like the heat of Hor●● dung will give you in a fit Vessel each still●●titious stalagma according to your desire 61. Q. Doth every Spirit of Urine coagula● the Spirit of Wine 62. A. By no means this second Spirit observed to want that Virtue 63. Q. What doth Urine thus ordere● contain besides the aforesaid Spirits 64. A. It 's more fixed Urinaceous Sal● and by accident forreign Marin Salt 65. Q. Can this more fixed Salt 〈◊〉 brought over the Alembick with a gent●● heat in form of a Liquor 66. A. It may but Art and ingenuity a● required 67. Q. Where is the Phlegm 68. A. In the salt for in the Prep●ratio● of putrefaction the Salt being putrified 〈◊〉 the Phlegm ascends together with it 69. Q. Can it be separated 70. A. It may but not by every Artis●● 71. Q. What will this Spirit do when i● is brought to this 72. A. Try and you will wonder at wh●● you shall see in the solution of Bodies 73. Q. Is not this the Alk●hest 74. A. This Liquor cannot consist withou● partaking of the Virtues of Mans blood and in Urine the Footsteps thereof are obse●vable 75. Q. In Urine therefore and Blood t●● Alkahest lies hid 76. A. Nature gives us both Blood and U●rine and from the Nature of these Py●●●techny gives us a Salt which Art circula●● into the circulated Salt of Paracelsus 77. Q. You speak short 78. A. I will add this the Salt of Bloo● ought so to be transmuted by the Urina●●ous ferment that it may lose its last Li●● preserve its middle Life and retain its sal●●ness 79. Q. To what purpose is this 80. A. To manifest the excellency whic● is in Mans blood above all other Blood wha● ever which is to be communicated to the U●rine after an excrementitious Liquor is sep●●rated from it whence this Urine excells a● others in a wonderful Virtue 81. Q. Why do you add Urine 82. A. You must know that to transmu●● things a corruptive Ferment is required in which respect all other Salts give place to the strong urinous Salt 83. Q. Cannot the Phlegm be collected apart from the Salt 84. A. It may if the Urine be not first putrified 85. Q. How great a part of the Water i● to be reckoned Phlegm 86. A. Nine parts of ten or there

abouts distilled from fresh Urine are to be rejected th● tenth part as much as can be extracted i● form of Liquor is to be kept from tha● dried Urine which remains in the botto● by a gentle Fire which will not cause subl●●mation let the Salt be extracted with W●●ter so that there be as much Water as ha● that Urine whence this Feces was dryed whatsoever is imbibed by the Water let it 〈◊〉 powred off by decanting let it be strained 〈◊〉 purged per deliquium then filtre it through● Glass Let fresh Water be powred on an● reiterate this Work till the Salt become pu●● then joyn this vastly stinking Salt with you● last Spirit and cohobate it Praised be the Name of the Lord Amen ARCANUM LIQUORIS IMMORTALIS IGNIS-AQUAE SEU ALKAHEST Ab EIRENAEO PHILALETHA Amico suo Filio ARTIS jam PHILOSOPHO Per Interrogationes ac Responsiones communicatum LONDINI Sumptibus Gulielmi Cooper ad Insigne Pelicani in Vico vulgò dicto Little Britain 1683. ARCANUM LIQUORIS Alkahest Quaest. 1. QUID est Alkahest Resp. 2. Est Universale Menstruum Catholicum uunius verbi Ignis-aqua ens ●implex immortale penetrans cuncta resolvens in primam nempe Liquidam suam Ma●eriam ejus Virtuti nil resistere valeat agitque absque Reactione patientis nec ab ul●a re patitur nisi a solo suo Compari a quo ●ub Jugum trahitur alias autem res quasvis postquam dissolvit integer in sua pristina Natura manet tan●úmque ●valet millesima Actione tanquam Prima 3. Q. Cujusnam est Substantiae 4. R. Sal Circulatus est nobilis mira Arte praeparatus usquedum voto respondeat sagacis Artificis neutiquam tamen sal corporalis est nuda Recollatione liquidus at salinus Spiritus qui calore non coagulatur evaporatione humidi sed uniformis est Substantiae spiritualis levi calore volatilis nec quicquam post se relinquens non tamen acidus est Spiritus aut Alkalizatus sed salsus 5. Q. Compar ejus quis est 6. R. Si Par novisti Compar haud difficulter noveris quaere nam vendidêre Dii sudoribus Artes. 7. Q. Ex qua materia proximè fit Alkahest 8. R. Salem esse dixi Salem circumdedit Ignis Ignem absorpsit Aqua nec tamen ei praevalet sic factus est Ignis Philosophicus de quo dicitur Vulgus cremat per Ignem nos per Aquam 9. Q. Sal maximè nobilis quinam 10. R. Hoc si cupis discere descende in teipsum nam tecum circumgeritur tam Sal quam ejus Vulcanus si valeas discernere 11. Q. Quis est dic sodes 12. R. Sanguis Humanus extra Corpus ●●ve Lotium Humanum est enim Lotium exrementum ex parte maxima à cruore decisum ●trumque dat salem tam volatilem quàm fix●m si nôris colligere praeparare praestò ti●i erit Balsamum salutis pretiosissimum 13. Q. Es●ne proprietas Urinae Humanae major nobilis Urina quorum vis jumentorum 14. R. Multis gradibus etiam licèt Excrementum Sal tamen ejus non habet sibi simi●e in tota universa Natura 15. Q. Quae sunt ejus partes 16 R. Volatilis fixior pro varietate tamen tractationis alterantur hae mul●ifariàm 17. Q. Suntne aliqua in Urina ab intima ejus Natura Urinacea specifica aliena 18. R. Sunt Phlegma aqueum videlicet Sal marinus in cibis intrò sumptus ac sospes indigestusque in Urina habitans ab eademque per Secretionem divisibilis qui si nullus sit usus satis in cibis per tempus idoneum cessat 19. Q. Phlegma sive Aquea humiditas insulsa unde 20. R. Sunt potus ex parte maxima tamen quaeque habet suum phlegma 21. Q. Explica te planiùs 22. R. Scito Urinam partim per Virtutem ecreticem unà cum haustis ad vesicam transmitti partim ex Teffas humore excrementitio sanguinis aqueo constare unde de●isum per fermenti urinacei odorem perme●t intimè immutata salsedine nisi quod salsum Sanguineum sit salsum Urinaceum sic quod praeter salem in Urina quicquid contine●ur Phlegma est inutile 23. Q. Quomodo patet in lotio Phlegma copiosum contineri 24. R. Hinc puta primò quidem ex Gustu deinde ex Pondere tertiò ex Virtute 25. Q. Esto tibi Mercurius 26. R. Sal Urinae totum essentiale proprium lotio continet cujus odor est peracutus gustus pro tractationis varietate varius ut videlicet nonnunquam quandoque salsus salsedine Urinacea 27. Q. Quid de pondere observasti 28. R. Hoc nimirum quòd Urinae tres duplo plus unciae ab homine sano collectae mediocriter Aquae fontanae circiter Grana 80 praeponderare unde destillatum esse Liquorem eque ponderantem praedictae Aquae vidi un●e constat relictum fere fuisse salem 29. Q. Quid de Virtute observasti 30. R. Congelatio Urinae a frigore indicio possit esse quòd Phlegma insit non etenim sa●i Urinae pauco Liquore etiam aqueo madefacto competit congelatio gelida 31. Q. At hujusmodi Phlegma ut ut exquisitissimè Destillatione separetur sapit Urinam idque tam Naribus quam Lingua judicatum 32. R. Fateor quidem gustu tamen pa●ùm deprehenditur neutro quoque modo plus quam in Aqua pura a sale Lotii cohobata perciperetur 33. Q. Quid docet Pyrotechnia circa urinam 34. R. Hoc viz. Salem Urinae volatilem reddere 35. Q. Quid tum relinquitur 36. R. Faex terrea nigricans faetulenta 37. Q. Spiritus an totus uniformis 38. R. Sic quoad visum odorem pariter gustum tum diversificatum inter se qualitatibus planè contrariis 39. Q. Quibus 40. R. Ab una coagulatur Virtute propria ●nhabitante ab altera dissolvitur puta Due●ech 41. Q. Quid praeterea 42. R. In coagulatione Lotii sui Spiritus vini deprehenditur 43. Q. Estne talis Spiritus in Lotio 44. R. Est sanè reverà inhabitans quamvis Urinam etiam hominis sanissimi qui Arte praeparari valet 45. Q. Cujusnam est hic Spiritus efficaciae 46. R. Dolendae sanè humano generi commiserandae 47. Q. Quare 48. R. Hinc Duelech hostis atrocissimus suum habet ortum 49. Q. Dabisne exemplum hujus rei 50. R. Dabo Sumatur Lotium in eoque dissolvetur idonea Salis-Petrae quantitas stet per mensem postea destilletur exibit primò Spiritus ardens supra Linguam ac si esset carbo readfundatur Spiritus cohobetur quater vel quinquies non abstrahendo quavis vice ultra partem dimidiam sic fiet Spiritus acutissimus nil tamen acescens ardor qui in prima Liquoris destillatione egreditur postea sensim mitescit tandemque ferè si non omnino silet mitisque secundus Spiritus ●prehenditur tam ad odorem quàm ad gu●m

the Glass was fair and clear cleaving to the Glass Then turned I up the Glass and there appeared a thousand sparks like very crude ☿ bright and shining marvelous to sight which I pickt out as subtilly as I could and among them I found one that was black on the one side and bright as Pearl on the other side and another like the colour of the Rainbow and all the other were as bright as any thing might be so that I thought they had been crude Then put I a part of them in a strong Fire and they never blemished but ever continued white then I would have quickned them with more quick Water Regm Lullii Test. cap. 56. Aqua viva est Argentum vivum congelatum in sulphur sicut● menstruale quod congelatur in Substantiam Embrionis but they would never mingle neither joyn with them more together For the impediment was that these sparks were corrupted among the Ashes in the drying and fixing Then I did melt them all together and never man saw fairer Silver than that was Then I thought to prove a shorter way I took Sol and our Omogeneum sometimes 6 to 1 another 1 to 1. and 4 to 1 and 3 to 1. and within 40 days and less I have made Calces R. Lullius ex metallorum limis vel oleis factis de corporibus imperfectis in Aquam cristalinum deductis per Artem fit Aqua-Vitae Menstrum nostrum resolutivum quo terrae oleorum purificantur a macula originali Aliam Aquam nolite quaerere quia haec Aqua trahit animas a corporibus facit eas visibiliter apparere si scis hanc Aquam rectè disponere habes totum sed difficulter fit Aqua ista magno ingenio ex Luna fit Elixir cum Aqua illa ex Sole absque putrefactione non sic ex aliis corporibus nisi post p●trefactionem Stude ergò propter istam Aquam habendam sine qua nihil fit in hac Arte. Chap 86. Hoc Argentum vivum cum corpore ●onjunctum sunt duo spermata de quibus facimus ●asci Aquam-vivam quae est Argentum vivum ●ostrum Aqua-vitae quae corpora mortua resuscitat Argentum vivum constructum congelatum dat omnem calorem quo indigemus fiat ergo oleum de ipso cum corrosiva abhin● trabatur aqua quae dissolvit omnia vel cum ipso oleo misceatur oleum fermenti album vel rubrum putrefiat totum per ●alneum fac inde Elixir as red as the Ruby and in likewise white calx with Luna bright shining and as soft as Silk which Calx I have examined and proved oft times after this manner I have put the Calce of Luna into one of our vegetable Menstrues and after I have put him into a Limbeck and have distilled from the said Calce the said Menstrue and the said Calce hath been like a Sponge Spongeous and full of strange Colours and shining white marvellous to see Then have I taken this Substance and put it in a clean Vessel and stopped it fast and so have I sublimed out all the Spirit and the Body remained beneath as soft as Oyl and impalpable that no man can express the subtilness thereof Upon the which Calce I gave my whole Confidence For what learned men soever had seen this Calce would verily have known that it had been the very true and right calce after the teaching of wise Philosophers for this Body is open and subtilizate and his radical humidity saved by his Menstruum fatens And this Calce is apt to receive liquefaction and all other Operations to it naturally conserving Now I perceive verily and without doubt how they declare one thing which is true first of the putting to of the Earth and the Water together in the Philosophers Egg which is likened to the Masculine and the Feminine the which shall bring and gender betwixt them the Child of the Fire which after shall never dread the Fire for himself is the very Fire natural and retrograde to Water and Earth again and after so nourished in the Fire till he be perfect white called by his Name Magnesia Magnesia est Aqua composita congelata quae repugnat Igni postea nunquam dubitat illum in aliquo eoque ipsamet est Ignis de Natura Ignis fit in Igne crevit suum intinctum fuit ignis Reymund T. T. Cap. 63. Jo. Dastin Magnesia sanè est Aqua composita Igni repugnans congelata corpus totum redigens in cinerem Note how here in this wonderful Preparation is hid all that ever the Wisemen had● in the which is the Menstruum faetens or Ignis contra Naturam it is the wonderful marvellous and secret life of the Stone as by any Practice I have seen and approved for in the beginning of the first corruption it smel●eth like foul Brass and after that he chang●th from favor to favor and in Colour ●range and at the last he is fragrant and sweet smelling This I have truly proved by the very expe●ience in making of my foresaid Calce notwithstanding the Preparations the Philoso●hers have hid and nothing else which I have ●uly proved for I have continued our Mercu●y and Sol in firing ten Months and more ●n the which process I have seen the natu●●l Acts with marvellous things incredible ●xcept to them that have seen the changing of them as in manner of other Vegetable ●hings growing by their own radical moist●re and heat of the Sun both in burnishing and in divers Colours springing with leaves ●●ke an Hauthorn-tree with Flowers marvel●ous in sight to behold and after this ten months I wearyed and hasted with Fire above ●nd my Body did melt and rise from the Ground and ascended and the Spirit brake part out and the other part of the work was marvellous to see for part of the Sun was turned into Moon and I assure all good ●nd well disposed men but not to Asses and foolish People for I would not that they should see my Book But note the Testament of Reymond where be declareth in the 55 Chapter and sheweth of the changing of common Mercury first ere he may change the Body for he saith The common Mercury may neue● change the Body but himself be first changed an● made pure Water and as he is changed s● will he change the Body and Preparation ●● never considered till now at the last labour Wherefore let never man labour nor busie himsel● till his Mercury be turned into pure Water an● distilled and every Element well rectified and the Earth well calcinated and the same Earth from his original corruption well wished and that once well and truly done tha● the Sun and Moon joyned together with thi● foresaid Mercury And then beginning you● work and then with the volatile matter thou shalt have both Earth and Water all ●● one thing and not of divers kinds and whe● I thought to be at an end there

in an Iron Pan making the Pan red-hot before you put it in and keeping a continual Fire under it and stirring it always till it be like unto Ashes some will look red it will be burning a day or half a day at the least it must be stirred with an Iron Cole-rake a little one the handle two Foot long G. H. M. Made an Iron Pan a Foot and half long and a Foot broad the Brims two Inches deep and made an Oven in a Chimney with Bars of Iron in the bottom whereon he placed the Pan and ● place under to make Fire and it will after this manner sooner be burned viz. half a day the Smoak will not hurt it This Ashes keep in a Glass close covered Take of these Ashes 4 ● and of the strongest red Wine Vineger 3 Pints and put them in a Glass like an Urinal the Ashes being put in first lute the Vessel and let him stand in an hot Balneum 10 days which ended take it forth and set it to cool and let it stand 2 or 3 whole days that the Feces may sink unto the bottom the Glass must be shaken 6 or 7 times every day That which is clear let it run forth unfiltred by 2 or 3 Woolen-threds into a Glass Bason and distil it in a Glasen Still till the Liquor be stilled all forth this distilled Water put upon 4 ounces of fresh Ashes upon the Ashes from which the first Liquor was filtred put also a Quart of strong red Wine Vinegar lute the Glass as before and put him into the Balneum and there let him stand to digest 10 days filter this and distil it as aforesaid thirdly pour on that Ashes one pint of the like Vineger and put it in Balneum 10 Days filter it and distil it as aforesaid after the third In●usion throw away the Ashes Distil all the Infusions apart till the Liquor be clean distilled forth Take this distilled Water as often as it is distilled and pour it upon new Ashes keeping the weight and order their Infusions Filtrings and Destillations reiterate 7 times And you shall have of this Water the Menstruum sought for You must take heed that the Vineger be of red Wine and very strong otherwise your Menstruum will not perform your Expectation The Bishop gave Dr. Anthony 30 s. for a quart of Menstruum Take an ounce of pure refined Gold which costs 3 l. 13 s. 4 d. cast into a Wedge and File it into small Dust with a fine File put this ounce of filed Gold into a Calcined Pot and put to it so much white Salt as will near fill the Pot and set it among Charcoals where it may stand continually hot 4 Hours if it stand too hot the Salt will melt which 4 Hours ended take it forth and let it stand to cool then put it on a Painters Stone and grind it very small with a Muller then put it into the Pot and Calcine it and grind it again till you have done it 4 or 5 times i● it look red and blew when you take it forth it is perfect good After this calcining and grinding put it into a Glass Bason and put to it the Bason full of scalding hot Water and stir it a good while till the thick part is fully settled to the bottom then pour away that Water and put the like stir it and let it settle as before and so do again till the Water when it is settled have no taste of Salt this will be doing two or three days Of this ounce of Gold there will be hardly above 16 or ●17 Grains brought into fine white Calx but to separate it from the Gold leave a little of the last fresh Water in the Bason and stir it well together the Calx will swim to the top which softly pour from the Gold into another Bason if all the white Calx go not forth put a little more Water and stir it again aud pour it into the Bason to the other Calx then let it settle and pour away almost all the Water and Evaporate away all the rest over a heat till it be throughly dry and so put it up into a Glass Then put the Gold which is not yet Calx to Salt as aforesaid and Calcine it and grind it four times again and then wash it and then take the Calx from it as before and the Gold that remains calcine and wash as before till it be all Calx Take an ounce of this Calx and put it into an Urinal like Glass containing about a pint and put to it half a pint of the Menstruum Set this Glass in a hot Balneum● six days being close luted and shake it often every day when the six days are ended let it stand two or three days then pour away that which is clear very gently for fear of troubling the Feces to these Feces put fresh menstruum but not fully so much as at the first and so the third time but not fully so much as at the second then take the dry Feces which is the Calx and keep it lest some Tincture remain in it These coloured Liquors put into a Glass Still and distil them in a Balneum at the first with a very gentle Fire till all that which is clear be run forth and that which remains be as thick as Hony then take it forth and set it to cool then put the Glass into an Earthen Pot and put Ashes about the Glass into the Pot and fix the Pot into a little Furnace fast and make a Fire under so that the Glass may stand very warm till the Feces be black and very dry you may look with a Candle through the Glass Still and see when it is risen with bunches and dry Then take away your Fire and let the Glass be very cold then take out the black Earth this black Earth being taken forth put it into a Glass Bason and grind it with the bottom of another round Glass to Powder then put it into an Urinal-like Glass containing about a pint and to that put a little above half a pint of the Spirit of Wine set this Glass in a cold place till it be red which will be about ten days shake it often every day till within three days you pour it forth Then pour away the clear Liquor gently and that clear put into a Glass-Still or other Glass till you have more then put more Spirit of Wine to that Feces and order it as before and if that be much coloured put Spiritus Vini to it the third time as at the first put all these coloured Liquors together and distil them till the Feces called the Tincture be as thick as a Syrrup Take an ounce of this Tincture and put it into a pint of Canary Sack and so when it is clear you may drink of it which will be about a day and a half The Preparation of the Vineger to make the Menstruum Glasses necessary get 3 or 4

new Experiments of Fire and Flame and the perviousness of Glass 1673. The Lives of St. Basil and St. Chrysostome drawn by way of Parallel 1681. 8o Geo. Starkeys Liquor Alkahest the Immortal dissolvent of Paracelsus and Helmont 1675. 12● Paracelsus his Archidoxis or chief teachings of Quintessences Arcanums Magisteries Elixirs c. 1663. 8o Aurora and Treasure of Philosophers 1659. 8o The Water Stone of the wise Men describing the Universal Tincture 1659. 8o The end The Admirable EFFICACY And almost incredible Virtue of true Oyl which is made of SULPHUR-VIVE Set on fire and called commonly Oyl of Sulphur per Campanam To distinguish it from that Rascally Sophisticate Oyl of SVLPHVR which instead of this true Oyl is unfaithfully prepared and sold by Druggists and Apothecaries to the dishonour of Art and unspeakable damage of their deluded Patients Faithfully collected out of the Writings of the most acute Philosopher and unparalell'd Doctor of this last Age Iohn Baptist Van-Helmont of a noble Extraction in Belgia and confirmed by the Experience of George Starkey who is a Philosopher by the Fire London Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1683. The admirable Efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true Oyl which is made of SVLPHVR VIVE set on fire and called commonly Oyl of SVLPHVR per Campanam OF this most noble Liquor and not vulgar Medicine the noble Helmont writeth thus in his excellent Discourse concerning the Tree of Life In the year 1600. a certain man belonging to the Camp● whose Office was to keep account of the Provision of Victuals which was made for the Army being charged with a numerous Family of small Children unable to shift for themselves himself being then 58 years of Age● was very sen●ible of the great care and burden which lay upon him to provide for them while he lived and concluded that should he dye they must be inforced to beg their bread from door to door whereupon he came saith Helmont and desired o● me something for the preservation of his life I then being a young man pityed his sad condition and thus thought with my selfe the fume of burning Sulphur is by experience found powerfully effectual to preserve Wines from corruption Then I recollecting my thoughts concluded that the acid liquor or Oyl which is made of Sulphur Vive set on fi●e doth of necessity contain in it self this fume yea and the whole odor of the Sulphur in as much as it is indeed nothing else but the very Sulphurous fume imbibed or drunk up in its Mercurial Salt and so becomes a condensed liquor Then I thought with my selfe Our blood being to us no other then as it were the Wine of our life that being preserved if it prolong not the life at least it will keep it sound from those many Diseases which proceed originally from corruption by which means the life being sound and free from diseases and defended from pains and grief might be in some sort spun out to a further length than otherwise Upon which meditated resolution I gave him a Viol glass with a small quantity of this Oyl distilled from Sulphur Vive burning and ●aught him moreover how to make it as he should afterward need it I advised him of this liquor he should take two drops before each Meal in a small draught of Beer and not ordinarily to exceed that Dose nor to intermit the use of it taking for granted that two drops of that Oyl contained a large quantity of the fume of Sulphur the man took my advice and at this day in the year 1641. he is lusty and in good health walks the Streets at Brussels without complaint and is likely longer to live and that which is most remarkable in this whole space of forty one years he was not so much as ill so as to keep his Bed yea although when of a great age in the depth of Winter he broke his Leg near to his Ancle-Bone by a fall upon the Ice yet with the use of this Oyl he recovered without the least Symptome of a Fever and although in his old age poverty had reduced him to great straits and hardship and made him feel much want of things necessary for the comfort and conveniency of Life yet he lives healthy and sound though spare and lean The old mans name is Iohn Mass who waited upon Rithovius Bishop of Ypre in his Chamber where the Earls of Horne and Egmondon were beheaded by the Duke of Alva and he was then 25 years of age so that now he is compleat 99 years of age healthy and lusty and still continues the use of that liquor daily Thus far Helmont which relation as it is most remarkable so it gives the Philosophical reason of his advice on which it was grounded And elsewhere the same Author relates how by this liquor he cured many dangerous deplorable Fevers which by other Doctors had been given over for desperate And in other places he commends it as a peerless remedy to asswage the insatiable thirst which accompanies most Fevers To which relation and testimony of this most learned Doctor and acute Philosopher I shall add my own experience I find it a rare preservative against corruption not only in living Creatures but even in dead flesh Beer Wine Ale c. a recoverer of dying Beer and Wines that are decayed a cure for Beer when sick and roping Flesh by this means may be preserved so incorruptible as no embalming in the World can go beyond it for the keeping of a dead Carcase nor Salting come near its effcacy as to the conserving Meat or Fowles or Fish which by this means are not only kept from corruption but made a mu●ial Balsome which is it self a preservative from corruption of such as shall eat thereof which being a curious rarity and too costly for to be made a vulgar experiment I shall pass it over and come to those uses which are most beneficial and desirable It is an excellent cleanser of the Teeth being scoured with it they will become as white as the purest Ivory and the mouth being washed with Oyl dropped in water or white-Wine so as to make it only of the sharpness of Vinegar it prevents the growing of that yellow scale which usually adheres to the Teeth and is the forerunner of their pu●refaction it prevents their rottenness for future and stops it being begun from going further takes away the pain of the teeth diverts Rheums and is a sure help for the strong savour of the Breath making it very sweet In a word there is not a more desireable thing can be found for such who would have clean or sound Teeth or sweet Breath or to be free from Rheums for which use let the water be made by dropping this Oyl into it as sharp as Vinegar as I said before Against a tickling cough and hoarsness it is a rare remedy not only taken two or three drops twice a day inwardly in the usual