[146] Opera Paracelsi, i. 485.
[147] There were two laudanums of Paracelsus; one was red oxide of mercury, the other consisted of the following substances: Chloride of antimony, 1 ounce; hepatic aloes, 1 ounce; rose-water, ½ ounce; saffron, 3 ounces; ambergris, 2 drams. All these well mixed.
[148] Opera Paracelsi, iii, 101.
[149] Opera Paracelsi, i. 243.
[150] Ibid., ii. 84.
[151] Opera Paracelsi, i. 328.
[152] “Qui elegantiorem optat, ille eum condat.”—Ibid.
[153] Archidoxorum, lib. i. Opera Paracelsi, ii. 4.
[154] De longa Vita. Opera Paracelsi, ii. 46.
[155] Archidoxorum, lib. viii. Opera Paracelsi, ii. 29. In this book he gives the method of preparing the elixir of life. It seems to have been nothing else than a solution of common salt in water; for the quintessence of gold, with which this solution was to be mixed, was doubtless an imaginary substance.