io8 The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. 



mother's blood, and from one fountain 

 of vitalizing health.* 



No one need be afraid that this oil 

 of Antimony, distilled with vinegar, 

 afterwards with the purest spirit of 

 wine, then most skilfully extracted, and, 

 lastly, though of all most important, 

 exalted by means of fire, will ever act 

 as a purgative ; it purifies the body by 

 means of perspiration, and by means of 

 urinary and salivary excretions. 



Common glass of Antimony is pul- 

 ^ verized ; six grains or more are absolved 

 in warm wine overnight ; in the morn- 

 ing the wine is drunk without the 

 sediment, and purges, both by laxation 

 and vomiting, on account of the poison- 

 ous crudeness which still remains in 

 glass of Antimony. f It is impossible 



* The gold and the Mercury here spoken of are not the 

 common metals, but the gold and Mercury of the Sages, 

 more precious by far than is any ordinary metal, more 

 powerful than all other Mercury, that even which was 

 fabled to restore the dead to life. Therefore, I advise you 

 not rashly to spend your money on that which cannot profit. 



t This emetic is now commonly used by all quacks, but 

 not always with happy results. It is as with the sword of 

 brave Scanderbeg, the Castriot. The Sultan Mahomet 



