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TAke fine ☉ in thin Plates, dissolve it in A. R. then pour into the dissolution some ☿, and a fourth part of A. F. keep it in digestion untill the ☿ is all dissolved; the dissolution of ☉, which was of an Orange-colour before, will now be white and clear, and the ☉ will Precipitate to the bottom in a very subtil and spungy Calx; decant the
clear, and edulcorate the Powder of ☉, till it be freed from all Acrimony, then dry it.
Then take fine Pumice-stone, and make it red-hot in a Crucible, then extinguish it in Vinegar; reiterate the ignitions and ex∣tinctions five or six times, then reduce it into subtil Powder, which ignifie again for half a quarter of an hour, then make it as subtil as you can. Then put a bed of this Pow∣der into a Crucible, about a singers breadth, upon that put a Bed of your Powder of ☉: Continue thus stratifying until all the Pow∣der of ☉ be in, then cover the Crucible with another, and lute them well together, and put it into a Glass Oven where they pre∣pare their Matter, so that the Crucible may be always red during twenty four hours, and that the Matter in the Crucible may not melt, Then take out the Matter out of the Cruci∣ble, and pulverize it; then put this Powder in a Matrass, and pour upon it of the fol∣lowing dissolvent, so much as may cover it three fingers breadth, digest it in Ashes for 34 days, within a few hours you will see the dissolution Tincted of an Orange colour; after four days digestion decant the Tincture, and pour on more of the dissolvent, digest as before. Repeat this till you have extracted all the Tincture of your Powder; then filter all your Extracts, and evaporate with a gen∣tle
{fire} to dryness, and you will have a yel∣low Powder of an Orange-colour; put this Powder into a Matrass, and pour upon it a S. V. prepared as shall be taught hereafter; digest it, and in two days the S. V. will be Tincted as red as Blood, which decant, and put on fresh S. V. digest and decant. Re∣peat this so often till you have extracted all the Tincture out of the Powder: Then di∣still off the Tincted S. V. in B. with a gen∣tle heat to dryness; and thus is the Tincture of ☉ prepared for this Work, to be used with the said ☿ of {antimony}, as is said above.
Note, That if you digest and circulate this Tincture in fimo before you distill the S. V. from it, and then distill and cohobate two or three times, and abstracting half the S. V. from it, you will have a kind of an Aurum potabile, which is a very great Cor∣••oborant in the greatest weakness: The Dose is five or six drops in any convenient Vehicle.