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may prepare a red pellucid substance, as 

 sweet as refined sugar or honey or you 

 may obtain a bitter substance, like ab- 

 synth or an acid substance, like salt 

 oil. At one time it is red, yellow, or 

 white, and is borne upward like a flying- 

 eagle. Then, again, it exhibits various 

 colours, and is driven downwards, and, 

 by reverberation, becomes a metal, like 

 lead. Sometimes it looks like transpa- 

 rent glass of a red, yellow, black, white, 

 or variegated colour. All of these it is 

 inadvisable to use in medicines unless 

 they have been subjected to some other 

 test. It may also become a variety of 

 subtle oils, whose medicinal virtue trans- 

 cends their outward appearance ; their 

 use is chiefly for applications to wounds 

 and ulcers. The manifold variations 

 which it undergoes might puzzle the 

 oracle of Delphi. 



Out of it we may evolve living 

 mercury, and sulphur which burns like 

 common sulphur ; moreover, a grey pow- 

 der can be prepared from it, with real 

 natural salt and many other things. 



