51. Take very thin plates of pure fine Gold, which heat red hot: put them so heat∣ed into a Crucible, in which Hungarian or Spanish Mer∣cury is cast, being set upon hot Embers so as the Mer∣cury begins to smoak first. Put in first one plate red hot, then another, and so one af∣ter another, as you see them dissolved; so will the Mer∣cury drink up the plates of Gold. The proportion of the Gold to the Mercury, is as 1. to 24 viz. to one dram of Gold, three ounces of Mer∣cury; such is the proportion, be the quantities never so great: so will the Amalga∣ma be soft as Pap, and it will be a firm and good A∣malgama, Put this mixture into a Glass Bolt-head, with a long Neck: set it in a fit Sand-heat firmly Sealed up: increase it gradually, till you have a strong fire, so that the Mercury doth boyl: conti∣nue and keep the said fire the space of five days and nights. And constantly as you see the Mercury to ascend up by the sides of the Glass, put it down again, with a linnen cloth fastned to the end of a stick fitted to that purpose. Thus continue the matter with fervent fire, till the whole Amalgama is turned into a subtil red Pouder, as red as Dragons Blood, and so dry, that no part of the Mer∣cury does appear. Then let it cool, and you have a cer∣tain Calx for the Red work, which is firm and good: This Calx may be fixed by a due digestion in a gentle heat, and if it be dissolved in the Wa∣ter
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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of the Philosophers, it may be augmented and made Spiritual, so as it shall penetrate, transmute, and fix all Metals, but chiefly Luna into fine Sol. The same may be done with Luna for the white Work, which will pe∣netrate, transmute and fix both Jupiter and Venus into sine Luna: This subtil and transmutting matter is ei∣ther a Pouder which with a gentle heat will melt like Wax into Oyl: Or, it is an Oyl imcombustible, which pe∣netrates all Metaline Sub∣stances: Or, it is a subtile Volatile spirit, whose energy is a sixing Power, and sixes all other Volatile things.