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try in Ophm, whereby, accordirig to him. it becomes not only 
a vef y lafc^ medieioe, but alfo a highly ufeful ooe for very ma-- 
oy cafeSj if rightly iifed. 
Take then, faith he^oftruQ Thebao O^mm^ fliced,ooe pound,- 
and pour upon it ia a low Cucurbit ten pounds of frefli Juyce 
of Quioccs very ripe, adding to it one ounce of pure and very 
dry Sak of Tartar ; expofe k to a gemie heat for a day or two, 
until! there appear fomebubbles^which is a fign of the fermen- 
tation at hand. Theo^ to further the fame^ add four ounces 
offugar very finely pulverifed, andobferve ftill fuch a degree 
of heat^as Fcrnieotatioiireqaireth 5 which by fo doing ¥/111 
duly proceed, and you fhall fee the Opium manifcftly rif:^ and 
AiSoXvt per minima ; taking heed mean while of theftrong- 
fcented itopifying SulfSiur, which then is wont to fteam our. 
You I then alfo fee a part of the impure volatil 6'cum to emerge 
at the top3& the more terreftrial to fubfideat the bottom of the 
v^ffeU the purer part ftaying in the middle^ which is a red li- 
quor, like a Ruby^ tranlparent^ which yc^u are with care to 
parate, filtratejand by a due diftillatioo to thicken to the eon- 
fifteoce of hony* And this you muft again diifolve by ao high* 
iy rectified Spirit of Winej filtring itj and digeftiogit for a 
moneth, that whatfoever of crude there may yet be io it,may 
be by that celeftial fire ripened and brought to perfecSico. 
This Spirit being abftraded to a due confiftency^you will fiod 
thisEffence to be of that virtue.that the fourth part of a grain, 
or at moft half a grain^taken in a proper vehclej moift or dry^ 
will perform very wonderful things. 
Having difpatch't Digeftion and Fermentation, he comes 
toTr/'/^^r^i^/e/^jhislaft 5 by which alone heefteemsmany great 
and admirable things may be performed in Chyraiftry. To 
which he is perfwaded he Dial! very eafilv obtain the afleat of 
all thofej that (hall but obferve and vi^ell coofider the two fol- 
fowing OperatioDS^both experimented in the Labor^t^ rv of 
Go/^^r^j in the prefence of the late Duke Frederic\^ a Prince 
exceedingly well verfed in all kind of knowledge, efpeciaih/ 
inthac of Chymiftry^ 
■ The firft Operation was made upon Gold > vvhich, though 
the moft fixed of all bodies we know, wasj though it will not 
yield to Fire nor to any other known diffolvent, maftcr'd by 
Griw^m^swhichheafrurethhimlelf tohave beeq an eye- wit- 
