The Dialogue of Iron 
any longer of them: but ſeeing that it ſeemeth good to ai⸗ 
er Doctor, that 3 ſhoulde ſpeake of the preparing of theſe 
metalles, I will doo it, betauſe J woulde fay ſome thing as 
well foꝛmy parte. But if Maiſter Deco woulde take 
papnies, hee might ſpeake thereof, as wel as moſt men that 
ate tithe woꝛlo, ſeeing he knoweth it, and that there is nes 
thing in medicine hidden vnto him, but feeing that we haue 
ef him a good Cenſor . i any thing dad lacke, he may ſpeake 
| and ſupply it. The metallesifthep bee not corrected and 
Ti cee Pieparedenerie one, as it is conuenient fer them, cannot 
legales, kerne in medicine, no: wozke the etteges and vertues, which 
3 they haue in them, becauſe they are grole of ſubſtaunte, 
and ſtrong. 
The Alcumiſtes haue knowne and dode knows 
much in coꝛrecting and pꝛeparing of them, ſeeing that wee 
les tyep bie the golde and the ſiluer, in bꝛoths, that they may 
be dzunke, and do reduce them inte pouders, as alſo they de 
the like with the lead and copper and ok ther minerals and 
metalles, which they doo cozrect and pꝛepare, for to make 
them inte powders, that they may ſerue in medicine. 
They dos coꝛrec and prepare particularly the iron foꝛ 
ä this effede, but with greate difference, from all other me⸗ 
Bulcafise talles, as Bulcaſis ſheweth very learnedly, beeing a Phi⸗ 
lition, and a Mooꝛe, who in particular doth ſhewe the man⸗ 
er ugich ought to bee had ſoꝛ to prepare the pron, and hee 
retz in kpis manner, the fpling of the yon which is mot 
: pure, muſt bee taken without other mixture, fo2 it it bee 
mingled with Copper, 02 Lead, 02 Glaſſe, and it᷑ it bse sv 
nen fo mingled ta any perfon foz ta dʒinke, it wil kill them, 
ou ma take the quantitie you lift, of that which is filed, 
ched, let it be put into a cleane veſſell. And let there bee put 
uutceruerer, ietit in remayne thysty daßes » 97 at tbe 
e Geanen, an alter that tyme take ib ward „ ame 
