Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ...

The Antimonial {water} of Paradise, or the Her∣metick Coelestial Eagle with two Heads.

EXtract a Butter from equal parts of {antimony} and ☿ Sublimate: Dissolve this Butter in the Air in ♈, ♉, and ♊; put the Liquor into a Glass Cucurbite with its Head and Re∣cipient, lute well all the junctures; excite the Archaeus which is in him, by a very gen∣tle heat in Ashes, by a Lamp {fire}, which will maturate the Matter in the space of fifteen or twenty days: Then drive up its Rays in∣to the Head, which will be seen corporal in the Recipient in the form of a clear {water}. This {water} is all fiery, and is the Coelestial Ea∣gle with two Heads. Put it into a Cucur∣bite, and deflegm it with the same Lamp {fire}, and there will remain in the bottom of the Cucurbite the Mineral Gluten, or the viscous {water}, which doth not wet ones hands. You may prepare Medicines of this Coelestial AEthereal {water} thus: Put two drops of it into &ounce;iv. of S. V. it will turn as white as Milk. This Medicine Cureth the Dropsie, the Epi∣lepsie, Madness, &c. The Dose is from ʒij. to &ounce;ss. Now, if you would have the Pow∣der of Projection, you must digest the Glu∣ten

per se, as was said; or (which is better) add a tenth part of ☉ in leaf, and digest, or draw the red and white Oyl, and proceed as in the former Process, and you shall have a Medicine both for Man, and for Metals.