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ind at laft white ; And then \s it the pcrftft
done converting all Mcttalls into filver.

This ftone or EliMr is thus multiplied in
vcrtuc diffo'-ve it in your Lac frrgmis and
diftili it away and dry it and diffolvc \z again
fifc. And let it be fo often didolved anddry-
cd till it will dric no more but remain in an
incombuftibic oyl. And is then Eixer of the
third Order.

Take one part of this Elixir and projed
it upon ICO or 1000 partS||f melted (iiver
(according to the gcodncfs ana vertue thereof)
and \t will turn the Civer into a brittle Mafs
or fiibdancc, which beat to powder in an Iron
orrbraffe Morter or upon a Marble, and pro-
ved one part of this powder upon ico parts of
purged made hot, and it will be perfcd rncdi-
cine whereof one part turneih 100 or 1000
parts of other bodies into good filver. And
this way is your Medicine mukiplyed in quan-

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Yt remaincth now that we fpcak ofthcMc-
J-d.icincor the glixir of I ifc, which is called
potabic filver^ But aTthoagh the Liquor of
(llv'-srr maybe made potable filrcr if it be cor-
roberared before by digcflion in Balnco --
days with the rpiric of wine and then dlftill
away the (ar^^ymt of wine that the oyl of
the fiivcr n^apreraain in tbc bottome which
may »^afily be given for medicine , Yet the
Philoiophcrs would bav?: u% do otherwife for
they teach us to bring the mettalls firft into
tbcfr qainteffence before they be taken inward-
ly, iiiid that their is no other quintelTenccs buc
thofe that are of a fecond nature according to
che old faying ,

Elixir de fe ejl resfccunda.

Tie quofnntfatta corpora tminda.

Tha: 18 to fay the 4 Elements are deftrov^*
ed an^ by putrifadion a new body created
and ma jc into a ttonCs which js the ^uinteflence
as Ri^Uy would have it ; Buc I do boldiy and
<confl:antly affirm that there is no true(iIverot
potable fiivcr nor QintelTence unlcfs it be firft
Elixir and tfcac is done in a quarter of ad
bourby projedion of the Elixir upon filver or
piire gold molten according as the EHxir waa
red or whit^. If therefore yon defirf^afccr

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