CHAP. VI.
Recipe of common Sulphur, Tartar, and Niter, of each one pound, pulverise, mix and decrepitate them in a Crucible, kindling them on the top, otherwise they will fulminate. When decrepitated, melt and pour out the mixture, reduce it to Powder, and extract thence the Tincture with Spirit of Wine. Burn away the Spirit of Wine under the Philosophick Alembick, and what ascends reserve for your use in Medicine. What remains in the bottom will be sweet and void of all evil savour, because the Spirit of Wine hath burnt up all the stink. This Medicine is a most excellent Diaphoretick.