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{Recipe} halfe the weight of the correcting salt (resolved first, if need be to a strong Lixivium) to any poysonous or Laxative Vegetable (if it may be & conveniency require, first Pulveris'd) & let them be exquisitely beaten & incorporated together, & in a Bladder or other convenient covering, let them stand (not neere the fire) in forti compressione, for 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 weekes (within that terme, quò diutius eo melius. Dosis, one good Pill.

(M. S. Take to 20 {pound} of {antimony} one of {iron}; & with a little tartar make a smal Reg. to fall to the Bottom. Then with 8 or 9 {pound} of Mars more draw out the rest of the Reg. out of the {antimony}. The first Regul. yeelds excellent flowers, & the rest is sol.

Take common Regul. <made> with tartar & Peter, grinde with it about an equal part of pure rhenish wine tartar, (or sal tartari) & set them for 3 months in a Cellar to runne per Deliq. the masse will first grow black, & then running Mercury will be separated from it.

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{Recipe} good wheat, & wet it with Urine or faire water, & let stand so a day. Then make with it the Grand Dissolvent. This Dissolvent powred upon any Calcined Mettal resolves it into an Oyle & Feces, betwixt which it selfe swims sol may be deleted & may be either distill'd or powr'd off from the feces, the oyl being first powr'd off from it <Mettals first calcin'd will be analysed in it.> Sol may be prepar'd for it, by a Calcination in aquâ regali: Mercury by præcipitation (take vulgar red præcipitate) From'F' altered from 'u' the filings of Mars it draws a red liquor excellent in Wounds. Saturne it soon turnes into a red oyle, admirable in hurts. Lapis Calaminaris it turnes (after long & strong Ebullition'E' altered from 'F' (absque igne) into a substance of deleted which cures, Feavers, Tertians, quartanes, & other Agues & distempers. it must be given 6, 7, or 8 drops, & deleted cum exercitatione, but in nimiâ dosi it disorders the Body. Sulphur it draws a greenish Tincture from, which cures those wrong'd by Mercury, & helpes in the stone. Turpent. it severs into Colophony & an Essentiall Oyle; the latter apply'd warme, heales the Gout & Aches. From certaine pebbles it extracts Gold. Powr'd on Aromata, it in few howres reduces them into an Extract and a worthlesse Residence. It workes on Wax as on