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WEE joyn together the operation of Infusion and Extracti∣on, because the last doth necessarily follow the first. Both do supply us with Balsoms and Tinctures, which are Remedies highly to be esteemed by reason of their efficacy and vertue. For as Brimstone is of it self uncorruptible, and preserves dead bodies from putefaction, with how much more reason shall he hinder
the corruption and decay of living bodies, and restore the defects of the radical Balsom of our life, when once altered. Where∣fore above all things we recommend unto the Artist to delight himself in the works of Balsoms and Tinctures of Brimstone, which will supply him with Medicaments lesse subject to fail in their operations then others. For we must confesse, that what∣soever the most excellent Remedies have of vertue, faculty, effi∣cacy and power, only proceeds from that Ray of Light and in∣ternal Sulphur they have in themselves, whether extracted from animal, vegetable or minerals; and it is for this only reason also that we have so much recommended the conservation of the vo∣latile sulphureous salts or substances, because it is the last rind and covering of Spirit and Light, from whence proceed all the vertues and actions of natural bodies.
We will deliver three several manners of Balsoms of Brim∣stone, and as many wayes to extract the Tincture of it, that the Artist may the better be informed of the method of working, and better apprehend the nature of things and their intrinsecal ver∣tue.