Paracelsus, his Archidoxis comprised in ten books : disclosing the genuine way of making quintessences, arcanums, magisteries, elixirs, &c : together with his books of renovation & restauration, of the tincture of the philsophers, of the manual of the philosophical medicinal stone, of the virtues of the members, of the three principles, and finally his seven books of the degrees and compositions, of receipts and natural things / faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J.H., Oxon.

Of the Separation of the Fire.

YOU are also to know, that from the Element of Fire may be Separated four Elements after this manner, when the Fire is most violently enkindled or ascends, re∣ceive it in a Recipient, or Glass-vessel, wch shut exceed∣ing well, and set it in horse-dung for a month, and thou shalt find in that one Elements our Elements; the wch do thus with, open the vessel, put a Receiver there∣to, so the vapour, or Air will 〈◊〉〈◊〉, into the receiver, then afterwards, destil that which remains by a B. so the water will ascend, then by an heat of ashes, the fire will ascend, and the Earth will abide in the bottom; as to the virtues of these Element, what they are, and why they are in this place thus described, we shall ex∣plain more at large in other Books.