CHAP. VII.
How the Tincture or Soul of Antimony may be purified by the benefit of this Vegetable Fire.
Recipe of Antimony, Tartar, and Niter, of each alike; decrepitate, melt, pulverise, and extract the Tincture, which cause to pass through this Purgatory Fire, and you will have a safe Medicine against all Diseases. But if you would render it yet more excellent, to this Antimony (which hath already once sustained that Purgation) again add its own weight of Tartar and Niter; decrepitate, melt, extract, and cause it to burn as before, and you will have your Medicine more excellent. And if you shall repeat this labour the third time, you will have it far more excellent, for every time there are some Fæces deposited, whence the Medicine becomes more efficacious.
As is said of Sulphur and Antimony, so also all other stinking and bitter Subjects; yea the stinking Dungs of Animals may be so purified as to become sweet. But there is no necessity to speak hereabout in this place. For whosoever studiously searcheth for some famous Medicine, will easily find some excellent thing, so as he may attain both Riches and Honour according to his wish.