V. That these dissolvents are sufficient also for every me.

You have now observed the use of the spirit of philosophical
wine in these ways of making dissolvents: hereafter, in the follow-
ing books, you will perceive them to be sufficient for every pur-
pose. By these means you will make all the medicines of the
adepts, reduce alJ metals into running mercury, or if you had
rather, into the philosophers mercury, or first matter of metals.
By these will you make as well universal as particular transmuta-
tivcs of metals, the best of all in respect of deeper tincture, short-
ness of time, and conciseness of work. Hereby lastly, will you
prepare whatsoever curiosity has been left us by the adepts, and
prescribed in their books, so that if they have any preparations
without the spirit of philosophical wine, you may decline them
without any damage. For these dissolvents do volatilize all
fixed bodies, and fix the volatile and volatilized, dissolve the
coagulated, and coagulate the dissolved. Under which few
notions are comprehended all the operations of the more
secret chemy.