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℞ CRude Quick-silver, crude Lead or Tin, a. ℥ j. melt the Lead or Tin in a Crucible, then pour it out into another Cru∣cible, and presently put upon it Quick-silver, and presently these two will become one mass: this mass put into another Crucible which is hot, but not red-fire-hot,
and it will straitway flow, then pour it forth into another cold Crucible; and this work again repeat, that the two Metals may be the better united: so will their whole substance be the better mixed, and make a harder mass; which being laid or put for some days and nights in Smiths Forge-water, will become very hard. Some tye up the Quick-silver in a thick piece of cloth, and pouring forth the melted Lead, being almost grown stiff, but yet soft, with the end of a Stick, or a Rod of iron, they make a hole in it, into which hole they put the Quick∣silver with the cloth or rag; so will the Mercury be coagulated, by the fumes of the Lead.
The use of this is manifold. First, that it may be made malleable, and so become the basis of fixed Luna: secondly, that it may be conveniently worn, as an Amulet against Plague and Poison: thirdly, that it may be reduced into a pou∣der, and so added to, or mixed with Emplasters: fourthly, that it may be strewed upon old Ulcers, whose true Panacaea is Mercury; for that it is an Al∣cali, and an absorber of Acids: fifthly, that it may serve for Mercurius diaphoreticus, and other like proper Medicines.