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CHAP. IV.
THE Brain is to be conserved in its strength, so at that nothing may endamage it, and that it self may be wholly Brain: But it sometimes any infirmity be tide it, then the Hurts and Distempers are to be remo∣ved by the External Brain, that the whole Brain may re∣main: Of those sorts of Brains, one is the Liquor of ☽, and is thus made: First calcine it, then cohobate it with the Wine of Life for seven dayes, so the Calx of ☽ will be resolved into a soft or clamming Liquor.
Digest this in a Balneo for a Moneths space, then 'twill be resolved, and be in the form of a Green Liquor: This is the highest Arcanum, by which the substance of the brain is cherished, and a new, or extaneous brain im∣planted. Like unto this is the Arcanum extracted out of Gilla; on this wise, Distil the Gilla in an equal Weight of the Wine of Life, circulate it so long till it touch not the bottom; administer it with Falernum Wine, or Muskadine: It doth so powerfully strengthen the brain, that no Vertigo, Phrensie, or Madness can offend it.
The Liquor of the Saphir, and of Musk, do the same, and is on this wise prepared; If the Saphir be reduced into an Alcoadamantine Nature, and be dissol∣ved afterwards by Chybur into its own powder, and the Wine of Life be added by six dayes Cohobation to this Powder, then at length the Liquor becomes potable, and heals the Choraea viti, or laughing Disease, and the Mad∣ness and Phantasie of such as incline to hang, or other∣wise destroy themselves: A like Medicine is extracted out of Musk: It is to be decocted in a Cloath by the Wine of Life, into the form of a Juyce, like to Storax: Herewith is the Vertigo, the Scotemia, or running round of the Head, and whatsoever induceth as wounding or