1 96 The Triumphal Chariot of A ntimony. 



spirit of wine in S. Mary's Bath, sublime 

 the powder which remains, and it will 

 be distilled in the form of a many- 

 coloured, sweet, pellucid, reddish oil. 

 Rectify this oil in S. Mary's Bath, so 

 that the fourth part remains, and it is 

 then prepared. 



Then take living Mercury of Anti- 

 mony, which I have taught you how to 

 compose." 5 '" Pour to it red oil of vitriol, 

 made over iron, and highly rectified ; 

 remove by distillation in sand the vis- 

 cidity of the Mercury, and you will have 

 a precious precipitate of a glorious 

 colour, which is of the greatest medicinal 

 value in chronic diseases and open 

 wounds. For it quickly dries up their 

 symptomatic humours, which represent 

 the radical moisture of the disease. 



Take equal parts of this precipitate 

 and of our sweet oil of Antimony ; put 

 into a well-closed phial ; if exposed to 



* That is, the Mercury of the Sages so often alluded to. 

 Whoever tells you the secret of this Mercury will be your 

 Pylades, and you will be his Orestes. I, for my part, 

 shall be glad to make a third in such a company. 



