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THe Vegetable Stone being Distilled (the Vegetable Menstruum or rather Aqua ardens, or the Spirit of Philosophical Wine) till the Water is free from Phlegme, and that commonly is in the fifth time, take an equal Weight of Vitriol very clear, and of the best Cinabar, mix and grind them well together, dry the Matter in the Sun, till all the moisture is exhaled; then cast in your Water, and Distil first with a gentle Fire,
and strong in the end, as the custom is in preparing the Phi∣losophers Acute Water; and then the Spirits or Quintes∣sence of Vitriol and Cinabar, which do principally make the Mineral Stone (Mineral Menstruum) do mix and joyn toge∣ther with the Spirit of the Quintessence of Aqua Ardens, which Spirit is the Vegetable Stone; and this continue ten Times, beginning after the fifth (five times after the fifth Rectification of the Spirit of Philosophical Wine) and so con∣tinue the Distillations five times with those Bodies (Vitriol and Cinabar:) And you must remember to make the things tho∣rough dry, before you put them into the Water, so that all the Water (all the Phlegme) must be dried up (evaporated) and the Spirits remain, which must be joyned together, be∣cause of the strength of the Aqua Ardens; and every Distil∣lation you must put in new things.
To Vitriol and Cinabar he sometimes added Niter; thus he made this, call'd