The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 97 



Glass of Antimony may also be 

 prepared with an admixture of borax, as 

 follows : 



Take one part of crude Antimony"; 

 and two of Venetian borax ; pound finely, 

 place in crucible, melt them together in 

 a reverberatory furnace, or by a fire kept 

 up with the bellows, pour into hot copper 

 dish, and prepare as before ; you will 

 then have a beautiful, pellucid Antimony ^ 

 like pyropus.* 



The redness of this Antimony may 

 be extracted by means of spirit of 

 wine.j" 



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and set it apart as an excellent medicine. Once more place 

 the body which remains in a crucible, and melt and mould 

 into whatever manner you please. In artistic shapes it may 

 be worn as an ornament on a ring. This substance, when 

 dissolved overnight in a glass of wine, will act as a gentle 

 purgative or emetic if taken by a sick person the next 

 morning. The dose (two ounces or less) must be adapted to 

 the strength of the patient. 



* This colour is only obtained by a very powerful fire. 



\ Not common spirit of wine, which would be useless for 

 this operation, but that of the Sages, which is prepared as 

 follows for the extraction of this tincture : Take four ounces 

 of thrice-sublimed salt of ammonia ; of spirit of wine distilled 

 over salt of tartar, so that it is quite clear ten ounces ; place 

 in phial over digestive fire till the spirit of wine is filled with 

 the fire or sulphur of the salt of ammonia, distil thrice in the-, 



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