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Make with Sublimat and Kursella a thick oil like that made the
common way with {antimony}, poure upon this
<pure> Sp. of wine till it swim 3 or 4 fingers above it,
digest it for some dayes, and then destill them off
†for deleted by degrees with a heedfull care, and imploy the
acidulous
<(not corrosive)> menstruum upon Coralls &c.
To one part of calcin'd English Talck add 2 (or one) of Tacola,
melt this fusible mixture with Durca and though they will not incorporate the
Durca will be much wash'd and innobled thereby.
Take the white stone that
Paracelsus commends so
much
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calcination to fine pouder, put this in to an iron or other strong Cucurbit in
a stoopeing posture, Let the head be of glass, give a very strong fire and
dephlegm well what comes over
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Take kursella very exquisitly calcined, and melt about 2 parts of
it with one of Durca they will not well incorporate together, but yet the
colour will be much improved, without makeing the body immalleable.
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Take very well calcind kursella, calcine it by casting in by degrees
about thrice its weight of good Nitre, then mix with it a pritty quantity of
pouder'd charcoal to facilitate the fusion, (which
†twill hardly be deleted 'twill be difficult and not absolutly
necessaryaltered from 'necessira' to
make perfect) after which you may take the reduc'd body and proceed with it as
if it were Quatrum,
†by the deleted according to the same manner you may handle Vinetum
Paracelsi.
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If you mix Tura or a little Cursella with Barakid you may with
Ormum somewhat reduce it, but the best way is to keepe it an hour or better in
a strong heat with 3 or 4 times its
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