_How, by the benefit of the Common Lute of =Sapience=, =Sulphur=,
=Antimony=, =Arsenick=, =Auripigment=, and the =Sulphur= of
Vegetables, may in a short time be fixed into fixed Medicaments._
_Recipe_ any one of those Subjects, which you will; which if you
dissolve either by the dry or humid way, in a sharp _Lixivium_, the
_Lixivium_ so far constringeth the Volatile Subject, as it will not,
when heat red-hot continually evaporate. Such a _Lixivium_ coagulate
into Salt: If of this Salt you mix four or five parts, with one part of
a liquable Flint or Sand, and put the Mixture into a Cementing Box well
luted; set that into a Furnace of Cementation or Fixation to be fixed,
the _Sal-Alcali_ preys upon the Flint, and with it is converted into
Glass. But the Volatile Mineral hides it self in this Glass, and is not
driven thence by the violence of Fire, but suffers it self to be fixed
into a fixed Tincture. After that, which was put in, shall be fixed,
take your Box out of the Furnace or Fixation, and make the Glass flow
well in a Wind-Furnace. This Glass, when poured out, will be Red in
Colour. If you reduce this Glass to Powder, and by the help of Spirit
of Wine extract the fixed Tincture, from this fixed Subject, you
will have a most efficacious Medicine against all grievous Diseases,
especially, if the Tincture hath been extracted from Antimony, or
Common Mineral (not Vegetable) Sulphur. The Tinctures of Arsenick and
Auripigment, are not so safe to be used in Medicine, but in Chymistry
they are more profitable. For such Subjects cannot be fixed by any
more easie Method, than is here discovered by me. And _Paracelsus_,
_Basilius_ and other Philosophers judge, that a Tincture drawn from
fixed Sulphur or Antimony, will be admirably efficacious in Medicine
and Chymistry.
But that I so abruptly break off this discourse, it is not without
Reason, for I am confident I have writ plain enough to him whom GOD
favours.
_Note_: If to your _Hermes Seal_, you add such Sand or Flints, as _per
se_ abound with the first Ens of Gold, you will acquire the more noble
Tinctures.