CHAP. XXII.
How to prepare a famous Universal Medicine of Gold.
Recipe three or four Ounces of the coagulated and irreducible Bloud of the Lion; of which the little Book of Dialogues treats. Dissolve them, in the dry way, by the help of Sal-mirabile, into a Red Stone; from which reduced to Powder, extract its Tincture, by the help of Alcolizate Spirit of Wine. This Tincture is a famous Aurum Potabile against many Diseases. Also it coagulates living Mercury into Sol. I purposed to have prepared no small quantity of this Aurum Potabile, that I might therewith help and succour the Distress of the Diseased. But I was hindred for two years, so as I could not attend this Operation. Now I have found an easier Method of preparing it, and by help of that, do hope hereafter I shall do more than I could doe before. Touching its salutary use in Medicine, and its Coagulation of Mercury, shall (if GOD will) be treated of hereafter, before it be long. Here the Description of that would be too tedious.