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When this fermentation has taken V 

 place, the medicine which results is so 

 wonderfully efficacious that I might fill 

 several books with an enumeration of its 

 virtues. 



But any physician, who will dili- 



a pleasant acid taste ; I poured to it half as much spirit of T 

 salt, digested the two together for a month in a retort, in 

 order to effect their conjunction, and then still further amal- 

 gamated them by distillation ; then I poured them on the 

 calx of gold, and digested the mixture for a month, till it was 

 of a golden colour, approaching red. Thereupon, I gently 

 poured out the tincture, and softly removed the moisture after 

 it had been placed in a retort. A reddish powder then re- 

 mained at the bottom, which I sweetened with distilled rain 

 water, and again extracted the Tincture with spirit of wine. 



Then I restored that winged red dragon, gave him his tail to 1 (\ I fo 

 eat for six whole months, and obtained a most sweet and 

 pleasant Tincture, ten or twelve grains of which remove, by 



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means of perspiration, the morbific matter cf every curable 

 disease. The solvent which is employed must not only be 

 sweet and free from corrosive properties, it must also be of 

 a nature homogeneous with that of the substance on which it 

 is poured, in order that it may extract from the mercury of 

 the body a good and pure sulphur. Rectified spirit of wine 

 is the most congenial to the sulphur of our substance, which 

 does not amalgamate with the spirit of salt. But as to the 

 Tincture which is obtained in this way, you must not suppose 

 for a moment that it is the Potable Gold of the Sages. That 

 would be a serious mistake. The Tincture is most precious, 

 but it has only the colour, and not the weight of potable , 

 gold. About this potable Tincture of Gold it is not my. 

 business to speak in this place. 



