Lauremberg's Observations upon Angelus Sala his Synopsis of Aphorisms, 1624. in Quarto, pag. 4.
HE saith thus: I did so prepare fluid ☿, that without the mixture of any thing whatsoever imaginable, without any dis∣solving Menstruum, it did acquire the form of a most pure and transparent Liquor; nei∣ther hitherto hath it lost this liquid form, but is so liquid, that you would imagine it had been brought from a Fountain, and which you will more admire, being tasted, it is void of all acrimony, and meerly in∣sipid; (I add also this) that some Months ago I reduced English ♃ into a fluid and moist Liquor, without the least addition of Menstruum, which humidity it not only con∣tinually keepeth entirely to this day, but (so far as I can see) will never lose it.
(Afterwards in the same page, he saith,)
I confess ingenuously, that not long ago, I had the happiness of seeing at a Friends, and feeling such an unfactitious Liquor (li∣quorem 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) whereby leaves of Gold