A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.

To fix ☿ of {antimony}, or the Common ☿.

TAke ℥j. of ☉ in leaf, and ℥iv. or v. of ☿: Make an aaa, which put in a Retort, and digest it in Horse-dung for eight days, then distill in Sand, giving strong {fire} at last, and the ☉ will go over with the ☿, and if any of it remain in the bottom, aaate it with the same ☿, and digest three or four days, and then distill as before, and all the ☉ will go over with the ☿, and you shall have a ☿ well animated.

Take ℥iij. of this ☿, aaate it with ℥j. of ☽; grind the aaa, and put it in a Ma∣trass half luted; digest for eleven days by graduated {fire}, and all will be a red Pow∣der.

Take ℥iij. of this Powder, and project it upon ℥j. of ☉ in fusion, and all will be trans∣muted into ☉.

Then take the remaining ℥ of Powder, and aaate it with ℥iij. of the ☿ animated; di∣gest as before, and in nine days your Pow∣der will be perfected as before. Take these ℥iv: of Powder, and unite it with ℥xij. of new ☿ animated; digest without ☉, and you will have a perpetual Miniera; part

whereof you may reduce to a Body when you please, by projecting it upon ☉; and the other will serve for a Ferment, which will never fail, being it self all ☉.

This ☿ animated may be fixed without ☉, by a gentle heat, being it self a liquid ☉; but to shorten the Work, you may add ☉.