Corollaries.
1. The Mutability of Mercury into this Powder by Fire, still remains in the Mercury, after an eighth part of it has been changed into the Powder.
2. After 511 Distillations, each of which had produced some of that Powder, this Mutability remains, altho’ no new Mercury has been added.
3. Therefore that Powder is scarce to be accounted the Dregs or Feces separable by Distillation from the intimate Substance of the Mercury.
4. And hence it is certain the Mercury is so changed by this Means; but it is not certain that it is by this Means defecated.
5. Fire is not united to Mercury, as some celebrated modern Chemists have said it was, in their Writings.
6. Diligence can scarce teach the constant Artists those Bounds beyond which that Powder is no longer produced.
7. If that Powder is produced by Fire out of the crude Sulphur of Mercury, this Distillation does not purge the Mercury from it.