Of the tincture of Gold.
* 1.1 THe tincture of gold is his colour, so separated from the bodie, that it remaineth altogether white, and is pre∣pared thus. First ye must purge your gold by Antimony ac∣cording to art, than Amallgame it with mercury, and sette it in a furnes of reuerberation vntill it become spongious & light, and of a purple colour, & so that it cannot be brought to gold againe, out of the which yee shall draw his tyncture with Acetum alcalisatum, by digesting it in Balneo 40. dayes, being close luted with hermes seale: The which yee shall af∣terward vapour away, and circulat it with Alcoholl vini, al∣calisated, whereby his force shall be meruailously increased, for the curing of diuers and sundrie diseases, of the which tincture ʒ i. being mixed with ℥ i. of Aqua theriacalis, is taken euery morning ℈ i. fasting for the space 10. dayes. This me∣dicine is diaphoreticall purging the superfluous and noy∣some humors of the whole bodie, by sweat, the white body of gold, which is true lune fixed, the tincture being drawen away (as afore) is by an expert practisioner in few daies brought into Mercurie: which beeing precipitated by him∣selfe into a red powder 8 grames thereof is giuen in wine or Aqua theriacalis to cure the dropsie and the pox, and that on∣ly by sweat. If thou cast this Mercurie of golde vpon a due proportion of his proper sulphur, low it and digest it philo∣phically, then shalt ••hou make a most excellent medicine of all other to cure the leprosie, for it doth purify the bloud that is corrupted, and clenseth the whole body from all ex∣crements, onely by sweates, and maketh a man as it were