II. Take adrop, that is, the green lion, which we spoke of

( ' ?, and dissolve it in distilled vinegar for the space of
n days, shaking well the vessel which the matter is in.r
e times daily, then empty the dissolved liquor, and distil
through a filter three times from it* faeces, till it be clear as
ehrvstal, and evaporate the vinegar with a gentle fire, till it be
thick as bird-lime, which you cannot stir by reason of its vis-
cosity, ar.d being cold, take it out of the vessel, and keep it;— •
and again make more of it, and this do, till you have twelve
pounds of this green lion or adrop reduced to the form of a gum,
then have yon- the earth extracted from the earth, and the brother
of the earth. Then take a pound of that gum, and put it in n-
glass vessel of the bigness of a bottle, well luting the joints of the
alembic with glue made of the white of eggs and filings well mixed
together. — Libro Aceurt. p. SSl.

TYeidenfelb. — This Receipt in the Treatise of the philoso-
phical adrop (which is in the sixth volume of Theat. Chem. ami
inscribed to an anonymous disciple #f the great Guido de monte?
but differs not- from the books of Ilipley, namely, the present
de Accurtationibus, and the Clavis aurece porta?, the greatest
part of which is ascribed to the famous Dunstan, Archbishop
of Canterbury) is altogether the same as to the sense,
though these words run better in the Translation, thus ;'
Now take three pounds of the aforesaid gum, put it into a'
distillatory able to hold about two measures, and putting on
an alembic, lute the joints with luting made of ale, the white
of an egg, and wheat-flour, page 552. Volume 6. Theat. Chem,
Which is confirmed with the process or receipt of the Clavis
aurea'portae, where thus: Put three pounds of this milk (thickened
or gummed) into a glass, page 25"-, Clavis aureae portoe ; and
distil in a sand furnace, and let the sand be the thickness of two
lingers under the vessel, and so round about even to the middle-
of the vessel, or till the matter be covered : put a receiver to
it, making at first a gentle fire, but not luting the receiver, till
the phlegm be gone over, and this continue, till you see fumes
appear in the receiver white as milk ; then increasing the fire
change the receiver,, stopping it well, that it may not evaporate,
and so continually augment the fire, and you will have an oil
most ied as blood, which is airy gold, the menstruum foetens,
the philosophers sol, our tincture aqua ardens, the blood of the
green lion, our unctuous humor, which is the last consolation of
man's body in this life, the philosophers mercury, aqua solutiva^
which dissolves gold with the preservation o^ its species, and is

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hatli a great many other names. And when first the white fi
jappe&r, continue' your fife twelve hours, in ueich space i. ;
be strong!, will all the oil be distilled, which keep well stop]
prevent respiring.