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℞ Quick-silver purified ℥ iv. rectified Oil of Vitriol, or rectified Oil of Sulphur made per Campa∣num ℥ viij. mix, and digest in Sand for two days; then distil by a glass Retort, (with three Coho∣bations, as some Chymists say) and towards the end, with a very strong Fire, so that the
Retort may be red-hot: which done, break the Retort, and take forth the mass, which will be white, and beat it into a pouder, which wash oftentimes with fair, or distilled Water, boiling-hot; so will the pouder be changed imme∣diately from an exceeding white∣ness, to an exceeding yellowness; upon which put Alcohol of Wine, digest twenty-four hours; then thrice deflagrate it, or burn it off from it, that it may be (by so much) the more sweetned, fixed, and freed from its malignity, if any yet remain.
It purges upwards and down∣wards, and is a great Secret in curing the French-Pox, Gonor∣rhoea, Elephantiasis, Leprosy, Scabbiness, Gout, Dropsy, Scurvy, Cancers, Fistula's, as also malign and Venereal Ulcers: it eva∣cuates Humors from all parts of the Body, by Vomit and Stool, as also by Salivation, but ac∣cording to the manner of the exhibition. So that this prepa∣ration of Mercury is a most ex∣cellent thing for the cure of al∣most aninfinite of deplorable Dis∣eases, but more especially for the cure of the French Pox, and the symptoms arising there-from. Dose, à gr. iij, ad vj, vel viij.