_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.