Four books of Johannes Segerus Weidenfeld concerning the secrets of the adepts, or, of the use of Lully's spirit of wine : a practical work, with very great study collected out of the ancient as well as modern fathers of adept philosophy : reconciled together by comparing them one with another, otherwise disagreeing, and in the newest method so aptly digested, that even young practitioners may be able to discern the counterfeit or sophistical preparations of animals, vegetables and minerals, whether for medicines or metals, from true, and so avoid vagabound imposters, and imaginary processes, together with the ruine of estates.

85. The Resuscitative Water of Basilius. Pag. 81. Currus Triumphalis Antim.

TAke of the Salt of Mans Urine clarified and sublimed, of Sal Armoniack, and Salt of Tartar, of each one part, mix the Salts, pour strong (Philosophical) Vinegar to them, lute with lutum sapientioe, digest the Salts for a Month in a con∣tinual heat, then distil the Vinegar by Ashes, till the Salts re∣main dry, then mix them with three parts of Venetian Earth, force them with a strong Fire through the Retort, and you will have a wonderful Spirit for the making of Running Mercury out of Antimony. The same Water we find also, pag. 39. of his Ma∣nual Operations.

The Adepts have sometimes used some crude Oyley Matter in∣stead of the Spirit of Philosophical Wine in making these Men∣struums;

thus Paracelsus volatilized four Salts into a Menstruum of this Kind with Wax dissolved in Aqua fortis.