1. It dissolves and fixeth all Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals.

2. In three hours space it reduceth all the aforesaid into their first

matter, whence most excellent Medicaments are made, and whence proceeds

a product of Metals, new and more excellent than others.

3. It demonstrates, that in all Herbs, none excepted, there is volatile

☉, and teacheth which way it should be fixed.

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