Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.

SECT. 8.

How from Coagulation to produce Fermentation.

FErmentation:* 1.1 take as much of purified and laminated Sol.* 1.2 (as answereth to the third part of the foresaid coagulatum album) and of men∣struall* 1.3 Mercury foure parts of the weight of Sol.* 1.4 Amalgamaz them and put them in the viol on a lukewarme heat for 15. dayes,* 1.5 till Sol. by the Mer∣cury bee reduced into a subtile calx.* 1.6 Then amal∣gamaz* 1.7 in a marble morter all the foresaid coagula∣tum

album with the Calx Solis and menstruall Mer∣cury, then put altogether in the viol, and set it for a month in a heat of the second degree: then set it in a heat of the third degree, and let it so continue a good space till it become an hard white heavy masse, and from thence to an yellow colour, and from this to an orenge colour, and thereafter in∣cline to be redish coloured.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Isaacus.
• * 1.2

  Lullius.
• * 1.3

  Calid. c. 6.
• * 1.4

  Rolinus. p. 283.
• * 1.5

  Dastin••s p. 30.
• * 1.6

  Mullerus.
• * 1.7

  Libanius.