them that deal in minerals but spiritualized with a certain secret fire by which its proper body may be amended and exalted as to become partaker of a golden nature For such copper mines being melted and purged after the common way yeeld not gold but silver only whence it appears that they attaine to perfection not but by that secret fire of lotion or gradation For skilful Chymists have not only that common fire but also another by the help whereof metals are tryed and melted without the knowledge whereof metals cannot be rightly handled As for example in the common melting and burning of minerals which is done by a common fire the volatile part of the metal which is the spirit and vegetable life thereof is driven away by the force of that fire the more fixed thick part being left But if the more impure parts only be by any peculiar fire separated the gradatorious spirit being left with the body there is found a better and more excellent body then that which is melted in a violent common fire The greatest secrets lye in fire as being the strongest element but of these nothing is manifest to the vulgar Philosophers and Chymists In the dross that is cast away undergoing a greater force of fire there lyes something of what is perfect which is drawn from thence if they be melted againe after a peculiar manner which last operation is not but by a common fire But this amending of copper proceeds from a certaine fire that washeth purifieth and exaleth I have often tryed the mine of copper by both fires and I never found any thing but silver to be melted thence by that common fire as well after as before fixation and not gold but by that secret fire only gold and no silver As also tin tryed by the common way yeelds only silver but being reduced into ashes and dross yeelds not silver but gold as having passed the greater force of fire This therefore is to be ascribed to fire operating diversly according to the diversity of the regiment thereof Wherefore the differences of fires is to be known for one destroyes and the other digests and maturates metals one mundifies and washeth another penetrates heats exalts and transmutes metals into a better kind so that it may be truly said In gold and salt are all things Besides the hot and dry fires there are also found those that are cold and moist having no affinity with those by the help whereof nature doth as well in the bowels of the earth as out of the earth like an artist destroy and regenerate metals of which you shall see more amongst the Philosophers and I could say more if it were needful But why Mention made of unknown secrets begets envy Out of old cloth I will not make a new garment because there are some Authors of new books that know nothing but what they have read or heard As for my part I had rather be silent then publish secrets or write or repeat things already written For its all one to write secrees or common writ things viz. in this age Wherefore I thought it better to give others an opportunity of searching out secrets then to publish and communicate them to all indifferently Let it suffice therefore what hath been spoken of the difference of hot and cold fires by the help whereof metals are as well within as out of the earth generated and destroyed Of which I have decred more at large to treat in my book of the Original of Metals where what is here wanting shal not be omitted PARAG. XXXV The separation of silver from the tests which entered into them in time of trying without melting and without labour and costs THis is for those that want conveniences of melting their tests for the separating of silver which together with the lead entered into them in the time of trying And it is a very easie secret without costs and labour PARAG. XXXVI A cheap preparation or making of most fine earthen vessels like to the porcellane retaining spirits resisting the fire and to be made in any place of the world VVE can scarce be without those earthen vessels as in houshold affaires so in a Chymical elaboratory and Apothecaryes shops wherefore mention is made of them not without cause For the houshold affaires there may be made basons dishes cups pots c. For an elaboratory alembicks cucurbits retorts platters and other necessaries For Apothecaryes shops pots greater or lesser for syrups conserves electuaries and for waters of hearbs in defect of those of glass And such vessels may well be preferred before those of glass because they are not so soon broken and retaine any subtile and sharp humidities They are also to be preferred before pewter basons and dishes because they do as well in winter as smmer retaine their cleaness and more easily made clean without washing PARAG. XXXVII A confection of Allome exalting and fixing any colours especially requisite for scarlet and other pretious colours As also a preparation of a cauldron that shall be cheap and not alter colours THis allome is not to be sold because it is made by art of some certain minerals having this vertue as to be able to fix and exalt colours of any kind that they suffer no injury from the sun aire water which do otherwise alter colours to which business is required also a certain peculiar cauldron For diers of scarlet know that the scarlet die which is the best and most pretious of all colours is altered in copper cauldrons wherefore they are wont to cover them over with tin or to make them of tin But this our allome and our cauldron are far to be preferred before those vulgar although they are sold at a cheaper price wherefore this art is not to be slighted because much profit may redound to the possessours thereof PARAG. XXXVIII A certaine cheap preparation of colours for painting as of purple ultramarine vermillian c. but especially of a certain most fine white never yet seen most like the finest pearles also of a silver and golden colour THe aforesaid colours were yet never common nor could be made so plentifully and with so great profit as now c. whilest therefore these serve for the art of painting whereby for memories sake as well sacred as profane histories are painted it will not be amiss if they be taught because we can hardly want them And although it seem a mean yet it is a most useful art and also profitable because those colours are much used in many places whence much profit must of necessity redound to the possessours thereof The conclusion LET no man doubt of the truth of what hath been said in these Annotations For nature and art can do many things but our art is little in vegetables and almost nothing in metals and this is the reason that things never seen or heard seeme incredible and monstrous to the ignorant Wherefore I protest and protest againe that
it performe the same things Fire and a fiery vertue may do much but not by burning and destroying but by maturation and nutrition and feeding and moistening Of which moist fire see Artephiuus Bernhardus Basilius Paracelsus c. for maturation is not done with cold things but hot promoting germination Aud what ever nature hath left imperfect in the vegetable kingdome mineral and animal viz. accidentally that may be amended by art with the liquor Alkahest which is the best way of correction untill by benefit of art and the help of nature some better thing be found out c. And these are the vertues of that wonderful liquor Alkahest which is made use of in the preparation of medicines And because it is said before that it shews its vertues on metallicks also I could not conceale them from the studious But all its vertues shall not here be related for it is indued with so many that no mortal is able to number them As for me although by divine favor and the instruction of the excellent man Paracelsus excellently in a certain place but observed in few words describing it speaking of it briefly but very plainly and cleerly naming it I did obtaine the knowledge thereof which afterward daily I did more and more encrease so that I could hardly believe that any ever had spent so much money and pains in the searching of its vertues for the trying of metals yet I must needs confess although happily I have made more tryal therein than any other that many of its vertues are as yet unknown to me Seeing then that its vertues and strength cannot all be tryed by any man by reason of his short life although searching a hundred yeers and that by our merciful father only to a few and but part of the knowledge of its wonderful and incredible force is granted to the glory of his divine name in favor of the poor sick which none how learned soever with his ambitious learning and craft could ever obtaine Therefore some excellent gifts being given from the father of lights the omnipotent God to some of his children gratis and out of meer mercy viz. for some causes I easily believe that it is not his will that it shall long be kept close but be revealed to the world to the glory of his name and the benefit of our poor neighbour Wherefore I could not longer hold my peace hiding my talent which I received gratis though smal but communicate it gratis to my neighbor but so that the divine mystery may not be gotten by those ungodly abusers but only by the worthy through divine favor I affirm therefore expresly that in whole nature such a thing may not be found for not only by its help all animals vegetables and minerals may be reduced into very excellent and safe medicines but also be brought into the first matter minerals and metals may be purified washed and fixed and so changed into better bodies That which is worthy admiration that in so vile and mean a subject should ly hid so great vertues by which alone without any other art may be acquired riches and honours and lost health Then which thing what doth mortal man more need in his misery besides the divine word the comfort of the soul the for necessary sustentation of life soundness of body and honest report before God and men All these things may be had with this subject so that one need not to involve himself into any other troublesome art or vanity of this world having this secret whereby all necessaries may in abundance be proccured of which gift that this unclean world is unworthy I do affirme sincerely because it swels with ambition avarice for which we are not able to give God the donor sufficient thanks in our whole life wherefore I would have all what state or order soever earnestly admonished that they do not use this gift from heaven to the destruction of their souls but in thankfulness to him that gave it and every way to the good of their Christian neighbour Now follow the vertues which it manifesteth in metallicks FIrst it viz. the Philosophical menstrue doth radically dissolve all minerals and metals without noise and reduces them into very safe and wholesome medicines Out of gold it makes potable gold out of silver potable silver and so consequently of other metals potable metals so that it may well be called the universal Mercurie Secondly this secret menstrue purgeth washeth and transmuteth minerals and metals to a more noble species wherefore it may well be called Sapo Sapientum by which the saying of the Philosophers is confirmed Ignis Azoth abluunt Latonem Thirdly by it all minerals and metals are matured and fixed so as that afterward immature gold or silver incorporated with it may by cupellation be drawn out with gain wherefore t is deservedly compared to Hermes seale Fourthly it makes metals volatile and radically conjoynes them that they abide together and one act on the other in the fire it distroyes and revivs kils and renews wherefore it is compared to the Phenix Fiftly it separates metals without any loss and that speedily but after another manner then corrosives so that each of them may be had by themselves For example being about to separate gold silver copper iron tin lead mixt one or two three or four of them mixt that they may appear each by themselves without the loss of any you need not cupellate the mixture with tin which way only gold and silver are gotten out with the losse of all the rest but by this way they are all preserved where by turns one after another they are extracted wonderfully and swiftly in half an hours time by this sharpe vinegar of the Philosophers c. Sixtly By it metals may suddenly be mortified and reduced into transparent glass irreducible and like Amausa but reserving the propriety and nature of every metal which in the reduction of gold do give perfect silver whereby is confirmed that saying of the Philosophers the corruption of one thing is the generation of another and that of Paracelsus Ex aliquo fiat nihilum ex nihilo aliquid But this incombustible water or permanent water shews the truth of the Philosophers writings generally mentioning it in it the solution putrefaction distillation sublimation circulation ascension descension cohobation receration calcination coagulation fixation and fermentation c. in their work to be done at one time and one way in which onely operation all the colours appear of which the Philosopherrs make mention As the head of the crow virgines milk dragons blood peacocks tayles green and red lyon c. There is also by it demonstrated the truth by the liquor Alkahest of that Hermetical saying That which is above is as that which is beneath c. and many other things are performed by its help as making that secret Sandivogian Chalybs also that long sought for oyle of Talc So far Courteous Reader
lost its stink and be made fixe then it will be able sufficiently to pay for the paines and coals bestowed upon it N. B. Hither belongeth the Process to powre dissolved metals upon filed hartshorn and so to distil them Of the oyle of Ambar AMbar yeildeth a very pleasant oyle and of great vertue especially the white Ambar the yellow is not so good and the black is inferior to this for by reason of its impurity it cannot be well used inwardly and there cometh over also along with it a volatile salt and an acid water which must be separated the water for ought that I know is of little vertue the salt if it be sublimed from the salt of Tartar and purified is a good diuretick and in the stone and the Gout and may successefully be used both inwardly and outwardly The oyle if it be rectified especially that which comes over first is an excellent medicine against the plague epilepsie rising of the mother and megrim 6. 8. 10. to 20. drops being taken thereof at once and the nostrils also being anoynted therewith for to smel to it and it is to be observed that when it is rectified through spirit of salt it proveth much cleerer then done by it self without addition but if it be rectified with salt of Tartar it is of much more vertue though it fall not so cleer as that which is done by spirit of salt N. B. If it be rectified over a strong Aqua Regia having before once already been rectified with spirit of salt it will turn so subtle that it is able to dissolve iron or copper in some sort and to reduce them into good medicines and in this second rectification by Aqua Regia all will not come over but part of it will be coagulated by the corrosive water so that it turneth thick like unto mastick which in the warmth is soft and may be handled with ones fingers like wax but in the cold it is so hard that it may be broken and made into powder and glistereth like gold Of the oyle of soot OF the soot which is taken from Chimneys where nothing is burnt else but wood there may be distilled a sharp volatile salt and a hot oyle The salt is in vertue not unlike unto that which is made of hartshorn or ambar and it quencheth inflammation from what cause so ever it do proeeed The oyle may without rectification externally be used very successefully for all loathsome scabs and for a scald head c. But if it be rectified as hath been taught to be done with the oyle of Tartar of Ambar and of Hartshorn then it may safely used inwardly as the above written oyles are used for it be doeth prove as good as these yea better in some special cases How to make a good oyle out of soot without distilling BOyle the soot in common water till the water turn blood-red urine is better then water and set this solution being in an earthen pot in winter time into the greatest frost so long till all in the pot be frozen into one peece and turned white then brake the pot and the ice and in the midst thereof you will finde the hot oyle unfrozen and liquid in colour like blood which is not much inferior in vertue unto that which is distilled yet afterward it may be rectified and so exalted in its vertue when you please and is to be noted that this separation doeth only succeed in the greatest frost and cold and not else Of the spirit and oyle of haney OF honey there may be made a subtle spirit and a sowre vinegar if it be mingled with twice as much of pure calcined sand and so distilled and it falleth muchbetter yet if it be made with the flores of Antimony which were taught to be made in the first part whereby the spirit is increased in its vertue and its running over hindred thereby and so distilling it there will come over a pleasant spirit a sharp vinegar and some red oyle also which must be separated the spirit after the rectification inwardly used is good in all diseases of the lungs It openeth and enlargeth the breast strengthneth the heart takes away all obstructions of the liver and spleen it dissolveth and expelleth the stone resisteth all putrefaction of the blood preserveth from and cureth the plague all agues dropsies and many other diseases daily used from ℈ j. to ʒj taken with distilled water proper for the diseases the sowre vinegar coloureth haire and nayles as yellow as gold it cureth the itch and scabs of the skin it cleanseth and healeth old and new wounds they being bathed and washed therewith The red oyle is too strong to be used of it self it may be mingled with the subtle spirit which came over first and so used and the spirit will be exalted thereby in its vertue Of the oyle and spirit of sugar IN the same manner as hath been taught of honey there is also made a spirit and oyle of sugar viz. adding pure sand to it or which is better of the flores of Antimony and then according to the rules of Art one spoonful after the other of this mixture cast in it will yeild a yellow spirit and a little red oyle which after the distillation must be digested in Balneo so long together till the spirit have assumed the oyle and be turned thereby very red colour it needeth not to be rectified but may daily be used either by it self or with such vehicles as are proper for your purpose in all it is like in vertue unto that which was made of honey yet this of sugar is more pleasant then the other it reneweth and restoeth all the blood in man in regard that it received great vertue from the diaphoretical flores of Antimony and this spirit may fitly be used in all diseases it can do no hurt neither in cold nor hot diseases it doth help nature mightily and doth so much good that it is almost beyond belief Especially if for a time it be daily used from ℈ j. to ʒj The residue of it is black and may be kept for the same use again viz. for an addition to other honey or sugar or else you may sublime it again into flores in the furnace described in the first part or in the furnace described in the fourth part of this book with an addition of iron or Tartar or salt nitre into a Regulus c. To distil an excellent spirit and a blood red tincture of corals and sugar IF you mix sugar with red corals made into powder and distil it there will besides the spirit come over a blood-red Tincture like a heavy oyle which is to be joyned with the spirit by digestion in Balneo and it will be as vertuous as that which was made with Antimony diaphoreticum It doeth perfectly and lastingly cure epilepsie in young and old it cleanseth the blood from all filth so that leprosie together with its several species may
too covetous and idle loathing the blackness of coals and the rust of the tongs who had rather handle the viol and bandore then coals c. And these are deservedly compared to that young man of whom in the 19. Cha. of Mat. it is said he had a desire to learn the truth but was unwilling to follow Christ in poverty and misery From proud Peacockes and pratling Parrots nothing but tedious clamours whereas on the contrary the auditors are refeshed with the voyces of birds Therefore that perverse condition of man is to be bewailed affecting rather the vanities of a proud world then vertues and praise-worthy arts then which nothing is more honest and nothing more profitable after the world of God revealing to us the will of God concerning charity towards our neighbor And thus much for youths sake I was willing to say that they would not spend their tender yeers in vanities but rather would make tryal in the fire without which no man obtaines a true knowledge of natural things which although it seem hard in the beginning yet it is pleasant in old age Now follows the mixture of those subtile mineral sulphureous and salt spirits with water AS concerning the weight of the aforesaid spirits that are to be mixed with sweet water giving it the nature and property of natural bathes I would have thee know that of those which in the second part I shewed to be various and divers being viz. not equal in vertue the same weight cannot alwayes be so accurately observed seeing also there is a consideration to be had of their strength and of the strength of the patient Now you may at the beginning mix one or two pound of the spirits to a sufficient quantity of the water and then by sitting in it make tryal of the strength of the artificial bath which if it be too weak is to be increased by adding a greater quantity of the spirits but if it be stronger then it is to be diminished by abstraction of which more at large in Arte nostra Balneatoria Now this observe that it is best to make Baths in the beginning weak then stronger by little and little by degrees as the nature of the sick is accustomed to them that it be not overcome by the unaccustomed use of them being too strong Wherefore Baths are to be used with discretion and cautiously for which matter I refer the reader to my Artem Balneatoriam in which he shall find plaine and perfect instruction Let it suffice therefore that I have shewed the use of that Copper Globe in heating Baths which let the sick take in good part until more come Now follows the use Of Sulphur Bathes APply the furnace with the Copper globe to the tub after the manner aforesaid and powre in a sufficient quantity of sweet water which make hot with the fire kindled in the furnace by the help of the globe which being sufficiently warmed make the patient sit in it and powre into it so much of the sulphureous spirit as is sufficient which being done cause that the tub be covered all over that the volatile spirit vanish not and as necessity requires continue the heat till the patient come forth Know also that the water is to be changed every time and fresh spirits to be mixed And this is the use of the Copper globe in heating bathes of sweet or medicinal water and that either of vegetable or mineral and this made sulphureous is by art or nature whereby most grievous and otherwise incurable diseases are happily cured Of which enough now in this Treatise The use of the Copper Globe in dry Baths which are more excellent then the moist in many cases I Might have put off this matter unto its proper Treatise where all things shall be handled more largely and cleerly yet by reason of some unthought of impediments for a while procrastinating the edition of the promised Treatise I am resolved to say something of their use after I have made mention of the humid and indeed not only of the use of those subtile sulphureous and dry spirits but also of the use of subtile vegetable and animal spirits which are medicinal because in some diseases dry baths are more commodiously used then moist He therefore that will provoke sweat by a dry bath without water let him provide a wooden box or wooden instrument convenient to sit in standing upon a stoole boared through that you may raise it up more or less according as you please and having boards appoynted for the armes and feet to rest upon This box also besides the great dore must have also a little dore serving for the puting in of a burning lamp with spirit of wine or of any earthen vessel with coals for to heat it The box being well warmed let the patient go in and sit upon a stool let the box be very close shut all about and the furnace with the Copper Globe be fitted thereunto under which let there be a small fire kindled by help whereof the volatile spirit growing warm goeth forth into the box like a most subtile vapour penetrating all about the patient But when this spirit is not sufficient to heat the box set in it a burning lamp with spirit of wine or some earthen pot with coales the best whereof which are made of Juniper or the vine especially of the roots as being such that will endure long and cannot easily be extinguished by the vapours of those spirits that the patient take not cold and the vapours of the spirits may the better penetrate the body of the patient Let the wick for the spirit of wine in the burning lamp be incombustible made of the subtle threads of gold of which thing more in Arte Balneatoria In the mean time that volatile spirit penetrates and heates the whole body and performes its office being this way used better then by being mixed with water When the patient hath sate there long enough let him come forth and go into a warme bed to sweat Now before he go into the box let him take a dose of that volatile spirit which is used outwardly to provoke sweat and accelerate the action And by this means not only those volatile sulphureous spirits of salts minerals and metals are used outwardly without water to procure sweat but also the spirits of many vegetables as of mustard seed garden cresses crude Tartar also of animals as hartshorn urine salt Armoniack c. for the expelling of most grievous and desperate diseases Now the aforesaid spirits have divers properties the volatile spirits of salt minerals and metals have some those of vegetables and animals have others those have a sulphureous and fiery essence these a mercurial and aerial wherefore they serve for different uses In some diseases those sulphureous are preferred but in others vegetable and animal where also a consideration is to be had of the sickness and bath it self that one be not used for the other to
In the mean while I will prove cleerly that the separation of tin and iron by common lead thereby to get their gold and silver is of no value which being left in them are turned into ashes and drosse Take any Tin and reduce it into ashes by lead or agitation on a smooth earthen vessell tryed before by the common way for distinction sake which calcine well that the corporeall tin powdered may be calcined or being melted may be separated from the ashes Then take of these ashes one part and of the following flux or of that a little after six parts or more being mixt fuse them in a strong crucible with a strong fire untill the flux have consumed or drunk up all the calx of the Tin and of them both shall be made one viz. yellow or red glasse which may be tryed with a crooked wier put in which if it seeme not clear the crucible must be covered again and a greater fire be given untill the fire be perfect which labour in one halfe houre is finished which done poure it into a brasse mortar afterward to be covered untill it be a cold that it leap not out and be lost Afterward powder it to which mingle to the calx of Tin the weight of filings of Iron being mixt put them into a strong crucible because the flux is very penetrative covered and give a strong fir for fusion half an houre which done poure it out for Tin hath made separation and reduced some part of lead out of the flux sinking to the bottom to be separated when it is cold to be reduced into drosse on a teste and then to be cupelled and you shall finde grain gold drawn from Tin without silver And if before you weigh the calx of Tin lesse than 100 weight and after that the graines of Gold you mayeasily conjecture how much Gold is contained in the whole hundred weight of Tin ashes viz. at the least 3 4 5 or 6 lotones if thou work aright See then the fault is not to be imputed to the metals but us being ignorant of the separation of the Gold and Silver You should not perswade your selfe by this means to get much wealth out of Tin for I have not written this for that end but only to demonstrate the possibility And if thou think that gold wil come out of iron by the flux mingle then filings of iron with the flux before thou put in calx of Tin and thou shalt find in so doing that Gold doth come neither from the flux or iron but out of tin then being hereby assured that 't is the tin which contains gold thou mayst consider how most conveniently that may be extracted viz. with other Lead and another way as shal be hereafter taught Neither think that tin contains no more Gold then you have heard for more there is if you can wisely extract it Neither doe I deny that more Gold may be extracted out of the tin but more care then this is to be given if you desire more plenty But Gold may thence be extracted not onely by flux but divers other wayes in divers weights for what is written is only for demonstration of the possibility of Gold being contained in imperfect may to be extracted by a secret separation The flux requisite to this worke â„ž one part of very pure and white sand or flints having no Gold fusible to which add three parts of Litharge of Lead being mixt suse in a very strong fire that thereof a transparent glasse may be made of it which poure out that it may be cold and reduce it to powder which use in the aforesaid manner But you may ask why sand flints are mingled seeing they are not of a metallick nature to which I say the calx of tin cannot as also other fossiles be examined by lead alone for the following reasons viz. because in the calcination of tin its metallick nature is hidden but the impure and earthy parts are manifest wherefore it hath no longer affinity with Lead and other metals unlesse the hidden parts of the lead be manifest and also other metals and the manifest be hidden for then they easily embrace one the other and are again mingled welâ— and not altered What belongs to the alteration of other metals doth not belong hither for to this place only pertain Lead and Tin the alteration of which is demonstrated by this triall whereby it appeares to be thus Lead reduced into ashes by it selfe or into Lithargie and deprived of its metallick form cannot so in this worke be used without the flints or sand for the following reason The lead and glasse thereof made by it selfe is very fusible and volatile but the calx of tin is very difficulty fused which two calx's although they should be mingled to fuse in a crucible yet would not be mingled nor being fused imbrace one the other for the difference of their fusibility because the calx of lead alone being fused by a small fire will perforate and penetrate the crucible the calx of Tin being left in the crucible wherefore you must adde sand or flints to the lead viz. to hinder its fusibility that it may endure the same degree of heat with those that are difficultly fused and further their flux For like things doe mutually affect and embrace each other as water doth water oyl oyl and glasse glasse and metals other metals but water is not mingled with oyl neither are glasses mingled with metals but metals with metals and glasse with glasse whether it be made of metals or out of sand Wherefore they greatly erre who mingle the calx of metals difficultly miscible or other hard things with lead to prove or examine not considering that corporeall lead hath no affinity with them who remaining in their errour and not weighing the thing further consequently can find nothing of any moment But when the calx of metals united with lead by a medium as flints or sand are brought together into transparent glasse then the lead being precipitated and separated from the mixture it cannot be but that the gold and silver contained in them must be carried away with it This is a true and philosophicall tryall and not to be contemned for many things may by it be performed N. B. But this is not to be passed by that in the mutuall mixture and fusion of the glasse of lead and the calx of tin and other hard metals one may easily erre viz. in the precipitation which is done with the mixture of iron of the gold with the lead into Regulus by either the excesse or defect so that nothing may be gotten which is committed in precipitation For if the mixture stand long in the fire not fused it is burnt so that it cannot well be separated and if it stand too long fused in the fire the gold is attracted by the drosse by reason of the mixture of the iron having great affinity with the gold so that
174 How to make a good oyle out of soot without distilling ibid. Of the spirit and oyle of honey ibid. Of the oyle and spirit of sugar 175 To distil an excellent spirit and blood red tincture of coals and sugar 176 Of the spirit of Must or new wine ibid. Of oyle olive 177 The use of the blessed oyle 179 Of the oyle of wax ibid. A good spirit for the stone ibid. Of the spirit or acid oyle of sulphur 180 To the Courteous Reader 181 The Contents of the third Part. A Preface of the copper instrument and furnace 185 Of wooden instruments that are to be used in stead of stils baths and cauldrons 189 The preparation of the vessel 192 The making of a wooden vessel for a Balneum which is to be used in stead of copper and leaden cauldron for digestion and distillation by glass vessels 193 A wooden vessel serving for boyling of Beer Metheglin Vinegar c. as well as copper iron and tin vessels ibid. A wooden vessel for a bath for sweet or mineral waters which may be according as you please kept warm for the preservation of health 194 Of the use of wooden vessels in distilling boyling bathing c. and first of the wooden vessel ibid. Of the preparation of the lees of wine boer hydromel and other drink ibi Of the preparation of all kinde of corn as wheat oats barley c. which must go before the distilling of the spirit 195 Of the difference of malting 196 Of the fermentation of malt 197 Of the Fermentation of honey 198 Of the preparation of hearbs flowers seeds c. ibid. An Annotation 199 The manner of distilling in general followeth 202 The manner of distilling spices seeds flowers hearbs roots woods c. 203 How oyles are to be coagulated into balsoms 204 The manner of preparing follows 206 There follows now the use of the second wooden vessel which is to be used in stead of those of copper or lead serving for distillations digestions extractions and fixations 208 And first of a volatile extract ibid. A purging extract 210 A diaphoretical extract 211 A diuretical extrast 212 A Somniferous extract ibid. A cordial extract 213 Of an odoriferous extract 214 Of baths 215 Of a bath of sweet or common water 216 Of the nature and property of natural baths ibid. And first of sulphureous bathes that have a subtle acidity 218 The mixture of those subtile mineral sulphureous and salt spirits with water 220 Of sulphur baths 221 The use of the copper globe in dry bathes which are more excellent then the moyst in many cases 222 Now follows a wooden vessel which is to be used in stead of a cauldron in boyling of beer vinegar metheglin c. 226 The Contents of the fourth Part. OF making the Furnace 233 How minerals are to betryed 238 Of the melting of mines and metals 243 Of the separation of metal ibid. Of separating courser metals 247 What is to be held concerning the perfection of metals 248 Another demonstration by a dry way 255 Of the Philosophers stone 262 Whether minerals as antimony arsenick orpin cobolt zinck sulphur c. may be transmuted into metals and into what 265 Another way of separating the superfluous Antimonial sulphur 268 Of the tincture of Sol and Antimony 269 Another tincture and medicine of gold 272 Of looking glasses 273 Metallick mixaure for the matter of the glasses 276 Of the smoothing and polishing looking glasses 278 Of mettallick glasses 280 The colouring of the foresaid vessel follows in which it is made most like to Venice 284 Of the preparation of the colours for the colouring the mass of flints and crystals 285 The Contents of the fifth Part. OF the preparation of the furnace 293 Of the preparation of the furnaces 297 A lute for the errecting of furnaces 298 Of the closing of the joynts hindering the evaporation of subtile spirits 299 Another lute for broken glasses 300 How those subtle spirits when they are made may be kept that they evaporate not 301 How glass stoples are to be smoothed grinding for the retaining of subtle spirit in their glass vessels 303 Of the making of the best crucibles 313 Of the vitrisication of earthen vessels belonging to the first and second furnace 320 Of the use of the foresaid cups 324 An Appendix 328 Annotations upon the Appendix of the fifth Book A Preparation of corn wheat barley oates c. also of pears apples cherries and other tree fruits to be performed by the help of fermentation when thorough the help of distillation they yeeld a very good and most pure spirit very like that which is made of the lees of wine without great costs where also from the Remainders of the corn the burning spirit being drawn off may be made a very good beer or vinegar and of the remaines of the fruit a very good drink like to wine whence there is a double benefit so that any one may not only have from thence wherewith to live but also to lay up 338 The making of wine not unlike to Rhenish French or Spanish that shall endure for many yeers out of corn or fruits 340 A making of a burning spirit out of the baser sort of things which are commonly known like to that made out of Rhenish and French wine and at an easie rate 343 The making of sugar like to that of the India and of tartar like to that of the Rhenish out of honey not costly so that the price of one pound of sugar doth not exceed eight or ten stivers and a pound of tartar exceed not the price of two stivers ibid. A peculiar purification of vulgar impure tartar without any loss and the crystallizing or reduction of it into great crystals a pound whereof being purified doth not exceed the price of six stivers 347 The taking away of the ungrateful odour avd tast of honey which being taken away there is drawn forth out of honey a very good burning spirit which savours not of the qualities of honey and also a hydromel like to natural wine in tast and other vertues c. ibid. The making of a hydromel very good and clear out of raisins both greater and smaller resembling the best Spanish wine out of which also is made a very good and cleer vineger ibid. How good wines and good vinegars may be made in those places where grapes grow in unmanuered places and are acid 349 Also the preparation of wholesome drinks out of goose-berries barberries mul-berries and other wilde fruits 351 The correction of troubled viscous wines and such as begin to be red musty and sowre ibid. A very easie making of vinegar in great quantity out of certaine vetables that are every where to be had viz. very good cleer and durable like to French vinegar c. 352 A production of wines in cold places which othâ—rwise by reason of the cold aire do not bring forth wines the coldâ—st places of all only excepted viz. of the