IV. That these dissolvents are also prepared by any method.

You have here had several methods of preparation, which if
not satisfactory, you may please to invent new ones. Herein is
contained nothing secret, if your matter, and the spirit of phi-
losophical wine be, without any possibility of being separated,
mixed together, and distilled either in part or whole, through an
alembic. For every matter, by what method soever volatilized
and distilled with the spirit of philosophical wine, is a dis-
solvent.

TiH

Alchemical Treatises.