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.

Elixir Album.

SUblime ☿ three times from Vitriol and Salt-petre, then in hot Sand fix it so, that in strong heat it may not rise, which may be performed in three weeks time: Then Cal∣cine it in a close Reverberatory {fire}, and it will be ready for solution. Then take the Water which distilled over in Subliming the ☿, and dissolve in it a little {sal armoniac}, and ☿ {subli} mate, with this solution mix Calcined Vitriol to the thickness of Honey, digest in fimo o•••• and twenty days: Then distill by degrees: little at a time (for it yieldeth a very fiery Spirit) let the Recipient be large. When all is come over that will, rectifie it; then in this Spirit dissolve the afore-said fixed ☿, so is the Menstruum prepared.

Then take a white Calx of ♃, pour up∣on it so much of this Menstruum as will

cover it, let it stand eight days as before•• Repeat this till the Calx will take in no more of the said Menstruum, then let it stand till it become first black, and then white, Sub∣liming it self above the Caput Mortuum, from which carefully separate the white, and that is Sulphur naturae Iovis, which put in∣to a little Matrass and fix it, (which may also be done by frequent {subli}mation) make also Sulphur naturae ☽ in the same manner, and with the same Menstruum, which dis∣solve into Oyl in B. with which imbibe the said Sulphur naturae Iovis untill it be fusible, and then it will transmute ♃ into ☽.