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.

144. The Vegetable Heaven dissolved in a Mineral Menstruum of Lully. Pag. 59. Testam. Novissimi.

TAke of the Stinking Menstruum (described in Numb. 99.) one Pound, add one Pound, or half a Pound, which will be enough, of Aqua Vitae most perfectly rectified (Philosophical, described in Numb. 30.) and acuated with the sublimed Salt of Tartar (in Numb. 17.) or Wine: Hold the Vessel in your hands, and do not put it on the ground or any other place, till the fury (of the ebullition) is over, and it is a mixture of a Vegetable with a Mineral; seal it with Wax, and let it stand a day, then put it two days in Balneo, and distil in Ashes, and you will have a limpid, clarify'd and ponderous Water; then put it in a Circulating Vessel very well sealed, the space of sixteen days in Balneo conveniently, till you return, and see the Water well united, and at the bottom of the Vessel, in the form of a Cristalline Salt, keep it.

The same Menstruum but of different weight he made elsewhere, he added half a part of the Vegetable Menstruum to one part of the Stinking Menstruum in the antecedent, but in the following Menstruum he takes more of the Vegetable than Mineral Menstruum.