Doron medicum, or, A supplement to the new London dispensatory in III books : containing a supplement I. to the materia medica, II. to the internal compound medicaments, III. to the external compound medicaments : compleated with the art of compounding medicines ... / by William Salmon ...

I. Of the Circulatum Majus Paracelsi.

31. If you would reduce the Mercury of the Vulgar into its first liquid Ens, then it is to be first mortified, and brought out of its own form; and that is done by various sublimations with Vitriol and common Salt, that so it may be at last like fixt Cry∣stal; then dissolve it in its own Matrix, viz. in the first Ens of Salt, putrify it for a Month; corrupt it with new Arcanum of Salt, that the impure thereof may be prae∣cipitated to the bottom, and that the pure may be turned into Crystals: sublime the Stones or Crystals, in a close Reverberatory, when it is sublimed, always turn it up∣side down, until it comes to a redness. Extract this Sulphur with Spirit of Wine, rectified even to the height; separate the S.V. digest it for a time, and distil it: Then the Arcanum of the first Ens of Mercury, will come over in a liquid substance, the which is called by the Phi∣losophers, a most sharp Me∣taline Acetum; and in Our Archidoxis, Circulatum Majus. Thus may you do with Antimony, Gems and Herbs.