To make a spirit out of Salt of Tartar, Sulphur, and Salt∣nitre.
IF you take one part of salt of Tartar, and one part and half of Sulphur, with three parts of salt nitre, and grinde them together, you will have a composition, which fulmi∣nateh
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IF you take one part of salt of Tartar, and one part and half of Sulphur, with three parts of salt nitre, and grinde them together, you will have a composition, which fulmi∣nateh
like Aurum fulminans, and the same also (after the same manner as above hath been taught with the gold) can be distilled into flores and spirits, which are not without speci∣all vertue and operation. For the corruption of one thing is the generation of another.