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different manual operations, and in 

 various other ways, some of which are 

 already familiar to the multitude, while 

 others are by no means well known. 

 They are as follows : CALCINATION, 

 SUBLIMATION, REVERBERATION, CIRCU- 

 LATION, PUTREFACTION, DIGESTION, DIS- 

 TILLATION, COHOBATION, FIXATION, and 

 the like. The meaning of these terms 

 gradually comes to be understood by the 

 practical experimentalist. In the same 

 way you come to see the meaning of the 

 terms : movable, fixed, white, red, 

 black, blue, green, viz., by sound practi- 

 cal experience. For the operator may 

 err, and deflect from the rectilineal way, 

 but that Nature, when rightly treated, 

 should ever err, is impossible. 



If, therefore, the substance be not 

 perfectly dissolved, and set free from all 

 corporeal poison, know that you have 

 made a mistake. Retrace your steps, 

 learn the theory more perfectly, and en- 

 quire more accurately into the method 

 of operation, so as to find the true 

 foundation, and certainty in the separa- 



