Chapter CIII: Part I: To the well minded Reader (31)

_N. B._ The fasting Spittle of Man Coagulates running ☿, being stirred about with a Pestle in a Glass, or Stone Mortar, and so is made fit with Hogs-grease to be made into a Salve. Now after that common ☿ is thus Coagulated with fasting Spittle, if we mix it with Oyl or Butter, to make a Salve of it, we shall find that the ☿ will not unite with the same, but runs together and becomes quick as before, and only suffers it self to be joyned with melted Hogs-grease, but with the fat of no other Animal whatsoever; the Reason without doubt is, because Swine have a great affinity with Man and Metals. Thus we find, that Mans and Swines Blood have this Property, that if the _Calx_ of ♄ be for some time boyled in either of them, the ♄ becomes white and hard like ☽; the Reason of which the Reader may be pleased further to enquire into. Mans Urine also has this Nature and Property, that at one only Sublimation it so Coagulates ☿, that when ♀ is rubbed over with it, it looks as well as if it were Silvered over. And the sweat of Man is partaker of the same Property, of Coagulating and Metallizing ☿, so likewise the Excrements of Man and Beasts, _&c._ But nothing does it more readily than Mans fasting Spittle, wherefore also _Albertus Magnus_ saith, that the highest Mineral Power hath its Seat in the Head of Man, and especially between his Teeth, he himself having found, oblong Grains of ☉, between the Teeth of a dead Mans Skull; ’tis very probable, that the Person, to whom the same belonged, had taken ☿ inwardly, which naturally tending to the Mouth and Teeth, had been fixed there by the Mineral Virtue of the Microcosm into good ☉. Now if we see this happen thus in the Body of Man, what reason have we to doubt, but that the same Mineral Virtue may, without the Body of Man, not only fix ☿ into good ☉, but also reduce it to a true and perfect Tincture. Forasmuch then, as this is not only possible, but certain and unquestionable, I having wrought it with mine own hands, and knowing many other easie ways, by means of the natural Superfluities of Animals, to Coagulate and fix ☿, I am the rather inclined to Communicate the same to the World.

I will therefore in the name of God, for the good of Mankind, Communicate the way and Process, I my self at first made use of to Coagulate ☿, and that entirely from the Beginning to the End, and very plainly, not concealing any the least manual Operations. If any one from this Process here set down, chances, to find out a nearer and better way, I shall be glad of it, we know it is much easier, to correct and meliorate a thing already invented, than to invent it. What I here set down my own hands have wrought, what I have never done or tryed I cannot write, but leave it to those, who are further advanced herein than my self.

_A PROCESS._

To fix ☿, by means of natural Superfluities into a true Tincture. ℞. Eight Ounces of Wool, Goats hair, filed Goats or Harts-horn, _&c._ dissolve any of these in a strong _Aqua Fortis_, at the same time dissolve, in an _Aqua Fortis_, that has been abstracted from decrepitated _Salt_, an Ounce of fine ☉, and two Ounces of ☿ in common _Aqua Fortis_, pour all these three Solutions together into a Glass Body, and abstract all the _Aqua Fortis_ from the ☉ and ☿; this abstracted stincking Water pour again upon that, which remains in the Glass, and distil it off, repeat this Cohobation six or seven times, and the ☿ by this means will become united, and joyned to the ☉. This Conjunction put into a Glass Retort, and with a strong Fire drive the ☿ from the ☉, which will come over in the form of a thick red Butter, for the ☿ being so far fixed with the ☉, will not without great force be separated from it, especially when the Operator hath made use of a strong fixing Water, or _Menstruum_: However, by the violence of the Fire, he is at length forced to quit the ☉, in which Separation he carries the Soul of ☉ over with him, which makes the _Mercurial_ Butter to be of a red Colour; which _Mercurial_ Butter, or Water being rectified doth dissolve ☉, and with it may be fixed into a true Tincture.

_N. B._ This _Solar_ Butter may be another way without ☉ be fixed into a Tincture, not necessary to be set down here. He that hath a List to the work may begin with the Fixation, that is performed with the help of ☉. The ☉ and ☿ that remains in the Retort, may be recovered, as follows hereafter; for certain it is, that much of the ☿ in this Operation continues with the ☉, the Violence of the Fire having been unable to separate it, tho’ it may indeed be done another way, whereby we are experimentally assured, that Animals have power so to bind the winged Youngster, as to fix him with ☉ into perfect Tincture, which Fixation would be easie, if the Horns and Hair of Animals did not for the most part turn to Coals which do much hinder Fixation: For when the _Solar_ Butter is by the force of Fire driven from the ☉, the Coals of the Hair stay behind with the Fire of ☉ and ☿: Which Coals may either, like other Coals, by means of our wonderful _Salt_ be fixed into Tincture, for the ☉ and half fixed ☿ do not hinder, but rather further and help Fixation: Or else, we may joyn to these Coals, a due Proportion of good _Nitre_, and so make of them the always watchful, and Fire-spitting Dragon, and with the help of the _Narcotick_ 🜍 of ♂ and ♀ cast him in to a dead Sleep, kill and fix him into Tincture. For we must know, that this Animal 🜍 is incomparably better, than any Mineral or Vegetable 🜍 of Stone, or Wood-Coal. Or else with the help of a fulminating Powder, we may separate the half fixt ☿, from the half disanimated ☉, by which means the _Nitre_ kindles the Animal 🜍 and consumes it, and then the ☿ being freed from the Bands of 🜍 must come over, carrying over with it the yet remaining Soul or Tincture of ☉, which the ☿ in the Preparation of the _Solar_ Butter did not bring over: Thus the ☉ becomes more disanimated, and the ☿ (which comes over of a fair Purple Colour) becomes the more richly animated, which Purple coloured ☿ impregnate with the Soul of ☉, may either by it self, be fixed into Tincture, or we may extract the Tincture with the Spirit of Wine, and make use of it as an inestimable Treasure in Physick. But the best way is, with our wonderful _Salt_, to fix these Animal Coals impregnate with ☉ and ☿ like other Wood-Coals into a tinging Carbuncle.

_N. B._ This wonderful _Salt_ must be prepared of Oyl of _Vitriol_ and _Nitre_. This is the way I have followed to Coagulate ☿ with ☉, by means of Animal Superfluities. I must own that it is a troublesome Work, especially because of the Stincks, one is obliged to take in. Some Philosophers indeed make mention of a nearer and easier way to obtain an Universal Medicine from Animals: Wherefore he that doth not like the Process, may seek for a better, which if he chanceth to light on, he has reason to bless God therefore, whose Gift alone it is.

_A PROCESS, To Sublime the Coals of =Sol=, =Mercury= and Animal
=Sulphur= into Purple coloured Flowers, with the help of a
fulminating Powder._

Set a well luted Glass, or earthen Body, in a subliming Furnace till it be red hot, then cast in so much _Nitre_ as you think will be sufficient to kindle thy Coals with, and consume them, to which purpose, thou mayst put three times as much _Nitre_, as the quantity of thy Coals is. When thou seest that the _Nitre_ is red hot and in Flux, then cast in upon the _Nitre_ a piece of thy Coals as big as a Haslel Nut, and the _Nitre_ will immediately kindle the 🜍 and consume it, and by this means set the ☿ free; for in the burning away of the 🜍, the ☿ is forced to leave the ☉, as not being able to endure so strong a Fulmination: And having by means of the Animal 🜍, so intimately united with the ☉, as to be very hardly separable, but yet by the force of the _Fulmen_ being fain to leave it, he in his flight takes the Heart of ☉ along with him, and brings it over in the form of a purple Sublimate, which with the Oyl of _Vitriol_ (but much better by means of the universal Coagulator) may easily be fixed into a Tincture. This throwing of the Animal Coals upon the _Nitre_, thou must continue till all thy Coals be consumed, and so thou wilt obtain a ☿ impregnated and tinged with the Soul of ☉, and the ☉ remains of a white Colour, being disanimated by the _Nitre_.

_N. B._ As oft as you cast a piece of your Coals into the Vessel where the _Nitre_ in Flux is, you must immediately clap on the Head again, that the ☿ may not fly away, but be caught therein. For the said ☿ is a great Treasure, and may easily be fixed into a fusible Tincture. Thus you have the whole Process, how by means of Animal superfluities I have handled ☿ with ☉, and what hath been the Success of it: He who shall venture to set upon this Work and finish it, will find much more than I durst set down here.

The nearest and easiest way to fix these _Solar_, _Mercurial_ Animal Coals into a Tincture, according to my Judgment is, First to fix the said Coals, by means of a Fixative _Sal Mirabile_: Or else, to mix them with a Volatilizing _Sal Mirabile_, and by Retort distil from them a good graduating Water; we may also add to these Animal Coals such a Fixative water, as is employed to kill and fix the watchful Dragon or _Basilisk_. Every one may choose of these several ways, what pleaseth best: And if any thing by reason of the shortness of time hath been omitted here, the same will be discovered to the Laborator in his Work, if God does not hinder it, whose Blessing is all in all. _Thomas Aquinas_ had the Art in twenty four hours time, to prepare an universal Medicine from natural Superfluities alone, without any Addition of ☉ or ☿, without Charges, Labour or Trouble, without breaking of Glasses, and without taking in any loathsome Smells. So likewise _Avicenna_, _Albertus Magnus_, _Rhasis_, _Petrus Bonus_, _Joannes Lancinius Rupescissa_, had a much nearer and shorter way, than here we have described, as appears abundantly by their Writings. These Authors took their Subject and putrified it in Horse-dung, and then with the Element of Fire, they fixed the ☿ with the ☉ into a Tincture, in which Labour they were much troubled with the loathsome smell of the Matter. _Morienus_ tells us, that the Matter when in Putrefaction, sends forth a stinck like to that which proceeds from Graves, for indeed there is nothing in Man, which doth not stink extreamly, when brought to Solution or Putrefaction. When we dissolve these Animal Matters with Oyl of _Vitriol_, this stink is not so great, as when they are dissolved with _Aqua Fortis_, the same also may be said of Spirit of Salt, when ☉, ☿ and Wool are dissolved in the same, and besides doth more Volatilize the ☉ in order to Sublimation, or Fulmination than _Aqua Fortis_ doth. If instead of the Common ☿ we take a ☿ of ♁ for this Work, it will in Fulmination carry more of the Tincture of ☉ over, and the purple Flowers proceeding thence, are much more readily fixed by the universal Coagulator, than those that are made with the Common ☿.

What this universal Coagulator is, I have elsewhere declared, the great use of it is very evident, in that volatile Tinctures can hardly be fixed without it: For this Coagulator makes all volatile Corrosive _Metalline_ Spirits fix so as to be able to endure the Fire, which without it require a long time. And therefore, he who doth not know it, or the use of it, must needs find the fixing of volatile Spirits very tedious and troublesome, whereas those that know the use of it, may perform more as to the fixing of Tinctures in three days time, than others without it can do in a whole Year. For there is nothing in Nature so Volatile, which this Coagulator doth not fix, as _Turba_ testifies, saying that if God had not created our _Sal Armoniack_, all Chymical Labour would be in vain. Which indeed is the very Truth: For without a good _Sal Armoniack_ it is impossible to extract the Tinctures from Metals and Stones, or to purifie and subtilize them to the highest Degree; and without preceeding Subtilizing, there can be no ingress into compact Bodies: For the more that any Tincture is Subtiliz’d and Volatiliz’d, the more readily, after Fixation, doth it enter all hard and compact Bodies. Wherefore if God had not created this Coagulator, these volatile Tinctures, how high soever they might be in Colour, would be of no use for the Transmutation of Metals. Thus we find, that in _Alchimy_ these two principal Keys are extremely necessary: The first opens, makes Volatile, and Purifies and gives Ingress; the other binds and fixeth the Volatile, so as to make it endure the Fire, without which Fixation all Volatilization is in vain. O the Pains that I have formerly taken for to fix ☿, ☉, 🜍 and other such like Volatile Metalline Spirits, whereas now it is most easie for me to do all this, and much more, with the help of my universal Coagulator, the knowledge and discovery of which must be fetched from the Principal Agent, or secret Fire of the Wise Men.

I cannot upon this occasion pass by discovering another Property that is found in our Animal Subject, _viz._ that it can in one distillation resolve all Metals, none excepted, into a running _Mercury_, which is a thing very wonderful, that fixt Gold and Silver should be so easily reducible to Volatile _Mercury_, seeing their Bodies are by nature kept in such strong bands. Of which Reduction of Metals to quick _Mercury_, no Person hath writ more clearly than _Basil Valentine_. The Ancient Philosophers have indeed writ much concerning the volatilizing of fixt Metals, but did never declare, that, by this Volatilization, they understood a reduction of them to running _Mercury_, for which reason this Art also hath been so little known. The Ancient Philosophers have recommended this volatilizing and fixing of Metals to us in these following Verses.

_Fixum si solvas, faciasque volare solutum,
Et volucrem figas, faciet te vivere tutum._

Dissolve the fixt, and make it then to fly,
And fix the Fledge, and thou shalt dwell on high.

With these few words the Philosophers have declared their whole Work, but without any further explaining of them; so that the manner of compendiously volatilizing and fixing of Metals has been left in the dark. But because the end of this wicked World draws nigh, God is pleased to reveal these Secrets to some of his Chosen, which Talent mercifully bestowed upon me, that I might not be guilty of concealing, I have in the Seventh Part of my _Prosperity of Germany_ at large set down the way to Meliorate the meaner Metals, with the help of Animal Salt Spirits, and that so plainly, that every one may understand it, and the Poor (if they will put their hands to the Work) may have abundantly wherewith to maintain themselves.

Moreover these Superfluities of Nature are endued with this power and property, that in one days time they can destroy fixt Gold, that resists all the Elements, so as to be no more _Sol_, but will suffer it self to be melted into a green fusible Stone, which is of wonderful force and virtue in all Metallick Operations, of which it is not needful to speak more at present. If God thinks fit to bestow this Green Stone upon thee, he will not suffer thee to be ignorant what use may be made of it. I cannot, upon this occasion, but communicate something that is very wonderful. As I was on a time melting some of this Green Stone in a Crucible, it happened to run through the Crucible into the Furnace, where some Silver was run out a little before, with which the Green Lion joyn’d himself; and when I came by fusion to separate my _Luna_ from the Green _Sol_ Stone, or my destroyed _Sol_, I found that my Green Stone had never been throughly united with my _Luna_, the Stone continuing still green without any the least alteration, but my _Luna_ was become black and brittle like _Antimony_, and went away upon the _Cupel_. Now, what more wonderful change can be imagin’d than to see white fixt _Luna_ changed into black volatile Lead? Upon occasion of this wonderful Transmutation one of the Philosophers cries out, as struck with admiration; _Nunquid Natura Retrograda?_ What is Nature then turn’d Retrograde? Mind well this point, consider of it, and you will discover wonders; for when _Sol_ is so far destroyed as to be no longer _Sol_, then the greatest wonders may be accomplish’d by it. Yet know, that it is no easie matter so to destroy _Sol_, that it shall be _Sol_ no more; the Ancient Philosophers unanimously declaring, than it is easier to make Gold, than to destroy it.

_N. B._ This Green Gold-Stone being kept for some time in the Fire, becomes changed to a red colour, which is also of great use, he who desires to know more of it, may seek for it, as my self and others have been fain to do.

_N. B._ The _Salt_ of the greater World (I mean Common _Salt_) changeth the Metals that lie in it for a long time, into a hard Stone, as appears from this instance; Some Fishermen here in _Holland_, lately took up from the bottom of the Sea some Blocks of _English_ Tin, whose outside was turn’d to perfect Stone, the inmost part of them still remaining Tin; Who knows, how many hundred years this Tin had lain at the bottom of the Sea, before this change was made; but if the Sea _Salt_ of the greater World can perform this in a long time, the Sea _Salt_ of the lesser World can destroy Metals in a very short time, for our Animal _Salt_ can do more in a few hours time, than the Sea _Salt_ of the Macrocosme can do in an 100 years.

Wherefore I recommend to the Lovers of this Art to study the nature of _Salts_ and their use, if they intend to perform any thing Extraordinary either in Physick or Alchimy.

_N. B._ The _Salt_ of the Microcosme hath also this property, that when it is put into _Aqua Fortis_ it not only dissolves _Sol_ but _Luna_ also, and is an excellent way to extract the Gold and Silver that is in Sand and Stones, concerning which Extraction I treat at large in the Seventh Part of the _Prosperity of Germany_.

_N. B._ Another virtue of this Microcosmical _Salt_ is, that it extracts the Tincture of Gold, and leaves the Body thereof white. And if we afterwards take this impregnate _Salt_, and extract the Tincture of Gold from it with Spirit of Wine, and burn away the said Spirit under a Refrigeratory Helm or Head, then the Celestial Salt, or the Water of Life of the Philosophers, will be conveyed into the Glass Receivers, and is very sweet and pleasant, but withal so subtil and volatile, that the Air attracts and snatcheth it away, if it be not immediately pour’d out of the recipients, and carefully kept in a close stopt Glass.

_N. B._ At the bottom of the Cup or Dish wherein the Spirit of Wine, impregnate with the Tincture of Gold, hath been kindled and burnt away, you will find the Tincture of Gold in the form of a Blood-red, pleasant, fragrant, Aromatical Oil, which is true living _Sol_, and never stands still, but is in continual motion, perpetually changing from one form to another. In a word, it is the true living _Sol_ of the Philosophers, which by Art is made of Common Gold, that is dead, which Living Philosophick Gold, fragrant Dragons Blood, Incombustible Oil, and true Potable Gold is without doubt the highest Medicin that is in the World.

_N. B._ In the foresaid manner we may also extract the Tinctures from _Mars_ and _Venus_, as also from _Antimony_ and _Sulphur_, and with the assistance of the flame of Spirit of Wine maturate them into most lovely, fragrant, incombustible Tinctures. For by means of our Microcosmical _Salt_ all Metals and Minerals may be reduc’d to Potability, without the help of any Corrosive, in which state they are the most powerful Medicaments imaginable, to which the very best Remedies of the Galenists are not in the least to be compared. But no Man ever attained these Secrets that was afraid to smut his Hands with Coals, or that was not earnest in his Prayers to God for the discovery of these wonders; their Silk Clothes, Velvet Coats, Artificial Cant, and vain Aristotelical Philosophy, cannot produce any shell effects, but the Fire alone which is the effecter and displayer of Wonders. Wherefore no Man can come to be a true Philosopher save only by Fire, which alone hath the power to remove that which is evil, and to manifest and bring to light the inward concealed Good, which is true in an Earthly as well as Heavenly sense. I repeat it once more, that he, who doth not know Fire, and its hidden Divine Virtue and Operation, is a pitiful Philosopher, and doth not at all deserve that Title, for the Light is hid from him, and consequently all Nature appears vail’d and dark to him; which matter I have treated of at large in my _Celestial and Terrestrial Purgatory_.

Besides all that hath been said already, many other great, yea incredible, things may be performed with the help of Animal Excrements and Superfluities, and in particular the extraction of Silver and Gold out of Sand, Stone and Poor Oar, that is not worth the melting, as shall be at large declared in the Seventh Part of my _Prosperity of Germany_.

It may be said with truth, that never yet did any Man find out all the Virtues that are contained in thefts Superfluities of Nature, they being indeed greater than can be believed, which is the reason, why the Philosophers would never call these contemptible and loathsom Subjects by their own names, but have covered and concealed them under Metaphors and Allegories, that the great secrets contained in them might not be prostituted to the Proud unworthy World.

I do intend, God willing, with the first occasion to treat more at large concerning the nature and use of these Animal Superfluities in the Seventh Part of the _Prosperity of Germany_, where I shall, amongst other things, demonstrate, that these Superfluities of Nature are not only able to exalt _Sol_ and _Luna_ in their colours, but also to augment them to infinity in quantity and quality; I shall also plainly discover the way, how from Sand and Stone and the meanest of Metals, Gold and Silver may be extracted, so that every one, that is but little acquainted with the managing of Fire, may, with little charges in his own House, entertain and keep going a profitable and rich Mine of Gold and Silver, for the comfortable support of himself and family, to which God be pleased to grant his Grace and Blessing. _Amen._

THE
INDEX.

In which _P_, with the Addition of 1, 2, or 3, signifies the first,
second, or third Part; _a_ the first Column of the Page, _b_ the
Second Column; and where neither _a_ nor _b_ occurs to the number
of the page, the matter is obvious in that page by the Contents, or
otherwise by the matter being treated of in all, or the greatest part
of the page.

A

Acetum _of Philosophers, like to their_ Sal-Armoniak, _both having
their rise from Common Salt_, Part 3. page 33. b.

Adam _brought the first matter of the Philosopher’s Stone out
of Paradise, and again carried it to his Grave_, P. 2. 72. b.
_Divers particular Transmutations of Metals, by the help of this
Microcosmical subject_, 74. b.

Air _hindereth the fixation of any subject by the fire_, P. 1. 200. a.

Alchymy _what, its Agents are Fire and Salt_, P. 2. P. 1. 410.

Alcahest _corrects all poysonous Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals_,
P. 1. 108.
_Its Vertues in Metallicks_, 110.
_Its Preparation_, 153.
_Its Use_, 153. 163.
_It dissolves all Stones, and even the very Glasses in which
Solutions are made_, P. 2. 102. b.

Allom _its moist fire to prepare_, P. 2. b.

Amber _to purifie by distillation, and again to congeal it into a
transparent hard lump_, P. 2. 64. a. P. 1. 73. a.

Animæ _of Vegetables commended to Physicians_, P. 1. 191. a.
_being conjoyned with the_ Animæ _of Minerals, are an excellent
Medicine_, ibid.
_They are the Rays of the Sun coagulated_, ibid.

Anima _of Antimony and Gold, rubefie_ Lune, _and make it a Tincture_,
P. 2. 69. a.

Anima _of Gold to extract_, P. 1. 204. b.

Animals _poysonous to prepare into good Medicines by the Universal_
Menstruum, P. 2. 97. 101.

Antidote _against Poyson_, P. 2. 23.

Antimony _well prepared is never given in vain_, P. 1. 42. a.
_How to prepare it to_ purge _onely downward_, ibid.
_Its superfluous_ Sulphur _to separate_, 78.
_Antimony by long digestion, much of it becometh_ Gold, 43. b.
_Antimonial_ Wine _or_ Beer _to prepare of excellent Vertues_, P. 1.
42. b. 43. a.
_Antimonial_ Cup, _its Preparation and Use_, 92, 93.
_Antimonial_ Flowers, _Emetick and Diaphoretick to prepare_, 8. a.
105.
_A_ Universal Medicine _prepared of them_, 106.
_Its Vertues, Use and Dose_, 107.
_Antimonial Flowers how reduced into_ Regulus _with its Uses_, 110,
111.
_Antimonial_ Clyssus _to prepare_, 296.
Regulus _of Antimony to prepare_, 78. a.
_Antimony reduced into a_ red Oyl _or_ Panacæa _without
distillation_, 44. a.
_Antimony or Sulphur so_ to ripen _that they may acquire Odours like
Vegitables_, 51.
_Antimony contains much spiritual Gold_, P. 3. 43. b.

Antimonial Sulphur _to separate from its_ Mercury, _and to make its
Mercury into a_ Panacæa _for the curing of all diseases_, P. 2.
28.
_Antimonial_ Purge _in all grievous diseases, to prepare_, 59.
_Antimonial_ Panacæa, _its Preparation and Use_, 107. a.
_History of a wonderfull Cure wrought by it upon a Child_, 109. b.
_It is a true Remedy against the_ Scurvy _both by Sea and Land_,
110. b.
_A_ Chyrurgeon _on_ Ship-board _or in a_ Camp _may cure and preserve
more Men with one single Ounce of this_ Panacæa _than with a large
Chest of Common Medicines_, ibid.
_Golden_ Panacæa _of Antimony how prepared_, 133. b.
_Of_ Antimony _and Silver, a good Medicine to prepare_, ibid.
Antimony, Arsnick, _and_ Orpiment, _as also the Sulphur of
Vegitables to_ fix _by_ Lutum Sapientiæ, 167.
_Antimonial_ Emeticks, _to make work downwards onely_, P. 3. 65. b.

Apoplexy _cured by the volatile Spirit of Vitriol_, P. 1. 17. b.

Aqua Fortis _to prepare_, P. 1. 29. a.
_It differs little or nothing from Spirit of Niter_, 29. b.

Aqua Regia _to prepare_, 23. b.
Aqua Fortis _and_ Aqua Regis _to prepare in plenty for the
dissolving of Metals_, P. 2. 13, 14. 66. a. P. 1. 425, 426.
Aqua Fortis _at one distillation transmutes half its weight of
Common Salt into Salt-peter_, P. 1. 415. b.

_A Golden_ Aqua Vitæ _to prepare, the like never described by any_,
P. 2. 150.

Aqua Saltaberis _of_ Paracelsus _fixeth and rubefieth all white
Mercuries_, 190. b.
Helmont _erred in taking it to be the water of Whites of Eggs_,
ibid.

Arcanums _to discover is very injurious_, 148, 190.

Arsnick _and Orpiment to fix_, 162.
_When fixed they tinge Copper white like Silver_, ibid.
Arsnick _its nitrous Spirit to prepare_, P. 1. 30.
_It graduateth Copper white as Silver, and malleable_, ibid.
_Arsenical quality taken away from Mineral Oyls by Spirit of Salt_,
P. 2. 152. a.

Arms _and_ Armour _to preserve from Rust_, P. 1. 182.

_Of_ Arsnick, 319, 320.

Artificers, _as Engravers, Painters, Dyers, Statuaries, and many
others, may be benefited by the Authour’s Labours_, 165. a.

_The_ Astral Beams _penetrate to the Center of the Earth, and what
they operate_, 117.
_How they beget the_ Central Fire _of the Earth_, 119. b.
Astrums _of the Metals, what_, 367. b.

Aurum Diaphoreticum _to prepare_, P. 1. 385.
_Its Use and Vertues_, 386. a.

Aurum Fulminans _to prepare_, P. 1. 23. b.
_Being fired upon a Plate of Metal, tingeth it so that it will abide
the Touch-stone_, 75. b.
_How to take away its fulminating quality_, 416. b. P. 2. 39.

Aurum Mosaicum _or Musicum to prepare for Limners_, P. 2. 68.

Aurum Potabile, _its Preparation, Vertues, and Use_, P. 1. 97, 98,
99.
_The Authour’s white_ Aurum Potabile _exceeds the former_, P. 2.
133. a.
_How prepared_, ibid. b. P. 1. 219.
_His Defence of his true_ Aurum Potabile, P. 1. 243, 244.
_Its Nature, Form, Properties, and admirable Vertues_, 208.
_Experiment of its power in promoting the growth of Vegitables_,
209.
_Description of its outward form_, 211. b.
_It_ transmutes _Common Mercury, and other Metals, into Gold both by
the dry and wet way_, 211, 212.
_It_ tingeth _Sand into Gold_, 216. b.
_Its Vertues and Use in Medicine_, 213, 218. b.
_It_ Gildeth _Silver by the help of_ Argentuive, 245. a.
_It changeth_ Mercury _sublimate into a Red Powder, gently purgative
and Diaphoretick_, 243. b.
_How with_ Aurum Potabile _to make a Ruby or Hyacinth_, P. 1. 217.
b.
_How to change the Colour of this_ Aurum Potabile _from white to
red_, 220.

_Another_ Aurum Potabile _to prepare_, P. 2. 167.

_The_ Authour _was so renovated in his old Age, as to have new black
curl’d Hair, by the taking a small quantity of a certain
Tincture_, P. 2. 204. a.
_He complains that his Writings and Secrets brought him many
troubles_, P. 1. 170. b. 172. b.
_He never gained one half-peny by his Writings_, P. 2. 186. a.
_He hath borrowed nothing from other Writers, but hath attained all
his Secrets by his own Labours_, 71. a.
_He wasted some pounds of Gold unprofitably in his younger years,
in seeking for a Tincture, and finding a safer way for others_,
P. 3. 12. a.
_He was wronged by his Servants and Courtiers_, P. 2. 148. b.

_The_ Authour_’s opinion that the Stone of Philosophers may be made
of Common Salt_, P. 1. 269. a.
_He sowed Grain in bare Sand, and had it sooner ripe, than the same
sowed in good Earth_, 388. a.
_He had a Patent from the States of_ Holland _for the improving
of barren Land_, ibid. _He laments his being too liberal in the
communicating of Secrets_, 223. a.
_His being Calumniated, hath been the occasion of his more open
publishing of his Secrets_, 210. b.

_The_ Authour_’s account in what order he published many of his
Works_, 248. a.

_Of_ Azoth _and_ Laton, _or the Agent and Patient of Philosophers_,
P. 1. 396.
_The_ Authour _attaining to the knowledge of this_ Agent _or_ Secret
Fire _of the Wise, laid aside Furnaces, Glasses, and Coals_, P. 3.
61. a. 62.

B

Bakers _or_ Brewers, _how they may supply the want of Yest or Barm_,
P. 1. 182.

_A Mineral_ Balsam _of Sulphur of exceeding great Vertues_, P. 2.
126. b.

Balsam _of Roses, and other Vegitables, consisting of their three
Principles purified and again conjoyned_, P. 1. 60, 61. a.

Barrenness _in Men or Women to cure_, P. 1. 266. a. 267. b.

Baths _of Common water_, 63.
_Of Sulphur_, 65.
_Of the Dry_ Bath _or Sweating Chair_, ibid.
_Whence the heat of natural hot_ Baths _ariseth_, P. 2. 114. b.

_An efficacious_ Bath _for the curing of many diseases_, P. 1. 189. b.

_Of the_ Beetle _or_ Scarabæus, _the horned and Bull-like, also the
round or Globular, their Signature, Properties, and Medicinal
Vertues_, 94.
_Hens feeding on the gray_ Beetles _lay faster than those which are
fed with Corn_, P. 2. 95. b.

Bezoardicum Minerale _to prepare, with its Vertues_, P. 1. 8. b.

Beer, Ale, Wine, _or_ Metheglin, _to strengthen_, 159.
_Being sowr to recover them, and render them drinkable_, 159, 182.
_To preserve them in Summer from the fret_, 286. a.
_Beer to make with Honey, which will keep ten or twenty years_, 286.
a.
Beer _or Ale may be made in the hottest Climates, or Weather, of
Concentrated Corn, where Water and Hops are at hand_, P. 1. 305.
a.
_The Excellency of_ Beer _so brewed, beyond the Common_, ibid. b.

Birds _so to intoxicate that they may be taken with ones hand_, P. 2.
154. a.

Birdlime _so to prepare, as not to be altered by heat or cold_, P. 1.
182.

Bleeding _immoderate of any kind, to stop_, P. 2. 149. a.

Blood-letting _not available in curing of rooted and stubborn
diseases_, P. 1. 245. a.

Borax, _its Water turns Lead into Quick-silver_, P. 1. 236. a.

_A Delicate_ Bread _to prepare_, P. 2. 58. b.

Butter _to make by the help of Spirit of Salt, which will keep long
good_, P. 1. 380. a.

Brandy _to distill from the Lees of Wine_, 292. b.
_To make_ Brandy _of all sorts of Corn, and to give it a relish like
that made of the Lees of Wine_, 158, 159, 166. b.

C

Cabinet-makers _may make Pear-tree or Cherry-tree to be like Ebony_,
P. 1. 180.

_Excellent_ Cheese _like Parmasan to make by the help of the Spirit
of Salt_, P. 1. 364. b. 379. b.

_To kill Worms, and prevent holes in_ Cheese, 380. a.

Childrens _being gauled with their Urine, to help_, 13. a.

Chrystal _to tinge with various Colours like pretious Stones_, P. 2.
65. a. P. 3. 56. a.

Chrystals _to dissolve in a certain Menstruum, with their Vertues_,
P. 1. 248. a. P. 3. 55. b.

Chrystals _or Cream of Tartar to prepare_, 38. b.

_An Elegant_ Cinaber _graduating_ Lune _into_ Sol, P. 1. 374. b. N.B.

Collick _to ease_, 40. b. 54.

_To_ Colour _Hair, Bones, Feathers_, &c. _brown or black_, 40. a.

Colours _for Painters, as Ultramarine, blue Smalt, Scarlet Lacca,
Venice Ceruss_, &c. _to prepare_, 179.
Smalt _to make, as beautifull as_ Ultramarine, P. 2. 68. a.

Coals _afford a sweet Mineral Oyl_, P. 2. 125. b. 126. a.
_How it is to be distilled and rectified_, ibid.
_It is equal to the Oyl of Peter_, ibid.

_The four_ Complexions _described_, P. 1. 388. a.

Confection _of Alchermes Mineral, to prepare_, 384.

Copper _to extract and render Corporeal, from such poor Oars as will
not defray the charge of melting_, P. 1. 326, 327. P. 2. 18. P. 1.
293, 420, 425.
_Copper to transmute into Verdigrease_, P. 2. 18.
_Into other Colours for Painting_, 16, 77. a.
_Gold and Silver to separate from those Colours_, 17.
_Copper dissolved in_ Aqua Fortis _mixt with Silver, Iron, or_ Lapis
Calaminaris, _to reduce and render malleable_, 42.

Copper _to make white as Silver, and graduate into Silver, yielding
Gold_, P. 2. 68. b. P. 1. 419.
_To graduate into Gold by a Cement_, P. 2. 68. P. 3. 71.

_A_ Cordial _to prepare, to be used in great and continual diseases_,
115.

Corn _of all sorts, how to be prepared, before its Spirit be
distilled_, P. 1. 57.

Corn _to concentrate for the making both Bread and Drink on
Ship-board in cases of necessity_, 277, 278, 296, 303.

Corns _of the feet to take away_, P. 1. 181, 288. a.

Corrosives, _as Oyl of Vitriol_, Aqua Fortis, _&c. to dulcifie_, 405.
b. P. 2. 68.

Crocus Martis _to prepare, with its use_, 328. a.

Crucibles _to make, which will long endure the fire, with Lead_, 69.
a. 199. b. P. 1. 90.

D

Day _and Night, Light and Darkness, what_, P. 2. 86. b. 87. a.

Death, _what it is_, 86. b.

Decoctions _of Herbs of no value in Physick_, 113. a.
_Their Decoctions in the Alcahest, or firey water, much to be
esteemed_, ibid. b.

Demogorgon _perfects all Metals, both within and without the Earth,
and is the secret Fire or proper Agent of Philosophers_, 69. b.
_It makes_ Saturn _hard, and white as_ Lune, _as it becomes crude
out of the Earth_, ibid.
_It makes Copper white, and hard as Steel_, ibid.
_It makes_ Lune _through black, and_ Sol _exceeding hard_, ibid.
_It makes excellent Looking-glasses_, ibid.
Demogorgon _described_, P. 3. 58. a.

_How_ Dyers _may give such a ground to their Cloth, that the Colours
shall not be corrupted by Air, Sun, Vinegar, Urine_, &c., P. 1.
180.

Dioclesian _could not overcome the_ Egyptians _till he had caused all
their Books to be burnt_, 185. b.

_To_ Distill _Spices, Seeds, Roots, Herbs, Flowers_, &c. _by the
third Furnace_, 59.

Distilling _Instrument described for the plentifull making of acid
Spirits, and the easie extraction of Metals from their Oars_, 429,
430, 431.

_A_ Diuretick _and Nephretick extract, of excellent Vertues_, P. 11.
112.

Drink _very like to Wine, to make of Grain and Fruits_, P. 1. 167. a.

Dropsie _cured by the irreducible Blood of Gold_, P. 3. 28.

_A_ Dream _may bring a man knowledge_, P. 2. 145. a.

_Men made_ Drunk _with a very small quantity of the Spirit of Tobacco
or Henbane_, 154. a.

Drunkenness _to prevent, and its Evils to cure_, P. 1. 289. b.

Dungs _of various use in Physick_, P. 1. 248. b.
Dung _fattens the Earth onely by its nitrous Salt_, 169. a.
_Humane_ Dung _makes Flowers grow, but gives them an ill smell_, P.
2. 125. b.
_Humane_ Dung _to render sweet and Medicinal_, 159. b.

E

Earthen _Vessels to Glaze_, P. 1. pag. 92.

Electuary _compounded with Spirit of Salt, its manifold vertues_,
287. a.

_Separation of the_ Elements _from the_ Chaos _described_, 255. a.

Elias _the Artist, what_, P. 1. 222. a. 350. a. P. 3. 52. a.

Elixir Proprietatis _to prepare, with the volatile Spirit of_ Mars,
P. 2. 152. b.
_Its use and manifold vertues_, 153.
_It preserves both quick and dead_, ibid.
Elixir Proprietatis _to prepare with Secret_ Sal-Armoniack, 179. b.
Elixir Proprietatis _far transcending that of_ Paracelsus _or_
Helmont, P. 3. 57. b.

Embroiderers, _how they may put durable Colours upon their Silk_, P.
1. 179.

Enamels _or Colours for Glass, to prepare_, ibid.

Enemies _to repell or take Captive without shedding of blood_, 431.
b. 437. b. 439.

Engravers _and Statuaries Tools to harden_, ibid.

Epilepsie _or Falling-sickness, to cure_, 16. b. 17. b. 21. a. 50.
b. 53. a. 63. a. 265. b. _The cause of the_ Epilepsie _not known_,
238. b.

Epistle _to the Authour complaining of his writing too openly_, P. 1.
421.

Eyes _inflamed, the cure_, P. 1. 13. a. 39. b. 237. a.

Erysipelas, _the cure_, 50. a. 288. a.

Essences _of Vegitables to prepare_, P. 2. 84.
Essence _of Ash-keys, an excellent Medicine to dissolve the Stone_,
88. b.
Essence _of St._ John_’s Wort, cures Wounds, Bruises, Obstructions
of Liver and Spleen_, ibid.
Essences _of Tobacco and Henbane, heal diseases of the Womb_, ibid.
Essence _of Roses and Cinamon, a great refresher of a languishing
nature_, ibid. Essence _of Wine_, 91. a.
Essence _of Pearls, Corals, and Stones_, P. 3. 57. a.

Extraction _of Pearls, Corals, Crabs-eyes_, &c., P. 1. 44.

Extract _Vomitive_, 61.
_Purging_, 62.
_Diaphoretick_, ibid.
_Diuretick_, ibid.
_Somniferous_, ibid.
_Cordial_, 63.
_Odoriferous_, ibid.

_An_ Extract _of Corn of light Carriage, which may at any time be
made into Beer, or used instead of Bread_, 184.

F

Farner_’s Obligations to the Authour, for the keeping of Secrets
communicated_, P. 1. 149.

Fevers _not to be cured by cooling Remedies_, 167. a.

Feathers _to dye of any Colour, constant and durable_, 180. P. 2.
149. a.

_The_ Feathers _of Eagles and Doves to prepare, for volatilizing
Menstruums_, P. 2. 170.

Fermentation _of the Authours new_, P. 2. 219. a.
_Of his Secret_ Ferment, ibid.

Fire _common, its Excellency_, 115. a.
_Its knowledge the first step to the understanding of many
Arcanums_, ibid.
Fire _to extract out of any Wood or Herb whatsoever, and render it
palpable and visible_, P. 2. 7.
Fire _to kindle into a flame from two clear Liquors_, 2.
Fire _of the Vine to extract_, 8.
Fire _to extract and concentrate out of Animals_, ibid.
Fires _of Salts concentrated effect wonders_, 19.
_Their particular Medicinal uses_, 23, 24.
_They can doe more mischief in War than Gun-powder_, 217. P. 1.
431. b. 437. b.
_Secret Fire or Agent-ripening Metals_, 400. P. 3. 77.

Fires _various and unheard-of, with their Uses_, P. 2. 216, 217, 218.
P. 3. 64.

_The_ Secret Fire _of the_ Chaldeans, _of what prepared_, P. 2. 69. a.

Fire _of the_ Maccabees, _what_, 114. b. _It joyns Gold and Silver_,
P. 3. 64. 8.

_The_ Secret Fire of Philosophers, P. 2. 144. b. 219.
_It is called by three Names, but is either Oyl of Vitriol_, P. 3.
20. a.
_or Oyl of Vitriol coagulated_, P. 2. 184. b.
_It totally fixeth_ Mercury _into a Red sweet Tincture without any
diminution of its weight_, 193. a.

_The_ Fire of Artephius _draweth out the highest power or Quintessence
of Animals, Vegitables, and Minerals, without common Fire,
Furnaces, or Glasses, and without Labour and Cost_, P. 3. 48. a.
_Its Preparation_, 62.

_A_ Purgatory Fire _which sweetens and purifies all Vegitable,
Animal, and Mineral Subjects_, P. 2. 159.

_The_ three Principal Fires _enable a Physician to prepare variety of
Excellent Medicines against all diseases_, 160. b.

Mineral Fires _to extinguish by the_ Vegitable, _and their
corrosiveness converted into sweetness_, 158.

G

Galenists _err in their administring Gold and pretious Stones_, P. 2.
198. b. 199. a.

Gangrene _cured by Spirit of_ Sal-Armoniack, P. 1. 50. a.

Gardens, _or Orchards to keep out Deer, Swine or wild Beasts_, 192.
a.
_To rid them of Worms and other Insects_, 181.
_To prevent Spiders and other Insects from creeping up Fruit-trees_,
9. b. 192. a.

Gems _or pretious Stones to amend their Colours_, P. 3. 50. a.

Gems _or Artificial Stones to make of various Colours_, P. 1. 82, 83.
412, 413. a.
_A Ruby or Emerald_, 248. b.
_or Hyacinth_, 217. b.
Granats _to change into Rubies and pale Hyacinths, and other white
Stones to exalt in their Colour_, P. 2. 212. b.

Glassy _Colour to prepare like the Indian Porcellan_, P. 1. 180.

Glass _of Copper red, fit for the tinging or painting of Glass_, 135.

Glass _of Antimony to prepare easily_, 14. a.
Glass _of Lead for the fluxing of Tin Ashes, to prepare_, 39. 112.
Glass _is the Philosophers_ Lutum Sapientiæ, P. 2. 167. a.

Glasses _to gild durably with the Colour of Silver_, P. 1. 391. b.
Glasses _to hold volatile and subtile Spirits_, 87.
_The way of grinding Glass-stoppers_, ibid.

Gold _living, how it differs from the dead_, P. 2. 131.
_Of its preparation and dissolution into tender Atoms, fit for
Vivification and Medicinal use_, ibid. 139, 140.
_How those Atoms are to be further opened and made volatile like a
Vegitable_, 131.
_How the Stomach may be assisted so that it may dissolve_ Gold, 132.
Gold _when exanimated, flies the fire like Arsnick_, 72. a.
_The Medicinal Carbuncle of_ Gold _to prepare_, 51.
_The Tincture of it swiftly promotes the growth of Vegitable Seeds_,
52.
Gold _to be exalted in the Mineral_ Aries _by the Secret_
Sal-Armoniack, 189. a.

Gold _not to be reduced into three Principles_, P. 3. 26. a.
_nor to have its Colour extracted by Salts, for the Tinging of_
Lune; _but to be resolved by putrefaction, and made irreducible_,
ibid.
_How this is to be done_, 27. a.
_after a Total blackness_, 27. a.
_ariseth the_ Peacock’s tail, _and_ Dragon’s blood, 28. a.

Gold _its Tincture, with its Use_, P. 1. 26. a.
_Another Tincture of_ Gold, _or_ Aurum Potabile, _with its Vertues_,
265.
_It turns a Needle or pure Iron Wire into fine_ Gold, _by digesting
in it_, 267. b.
Gold _with Silver to prepare into a fusile purple Stone_, 384.
_To sublime into a Red Medicinal Salt_, P. 2, 168.

Gold _may be gotten out of every Herb_, P. 1. 374. b.
_Demonstrated by the Authour in the preface of many learned Men_, P.
410. a. 412. b.
Gold _dissolved in a Corrosive, and the Corrosive dulcify’d, becomes
a Liquor, which may serve for an_ Aurum Potabile, _and gilds
Quicksilver, and other Metals, with a Golden Colour_, 386. b.
Gold _to generate in_ Saturn, 397. b.
_To conjoyn with its Capital enemy Sulphur, and with_ Lune, 398,
399.
Gold _volatile in some Oars and coloured Flints, may be distilled
into a gradatory Water, transmuting Mercury into Gold_, P. 1. 426.

Gold _and Silver to purifie, and separate from each other_, P. 1.
147. a. 331. b.
_by Melting onely_, 175.
Gold _to separate from the imperfect Metals and Minerals onely by
melting in a Crucible_, 177.
Gold _to separate from the imperfect Metals_, 145, 146. a.
_Gold and Silver to get out of old Tin or Pewter Vessels, the Tin or
Pewter being preserved and amended_, 176.
Gold _impure to separate and purge by Antimony_, 104.

_Gold to extract with profit from_ Flints, Sand, Clay, _&c._, P. 1.
101. 371, 426. P. 2. 76.
_An infallible way of proving whether they hold much or little
Gold_, ibid.
_As also out of_ Granats, Agaths, Saphires, Rubies, Red Talk, _&c.
which will not yield either to Lead, or sharp Waters, and to
reduce it to a body_, P. 1. 422, 423, 426. P. 2. 12, 15.
Gold _to extract out of any Copper_, 17, 18.
_Out of natural Vitriol_, ibid. 65. b.
_Out of Sea-salt_, 18.
_Out of poor Lead Oar_, ibid.
_Out of all rude and stubborn Metallick Earths_, 19. 67.
Gold _and Silver Marchasites, how to get more Metal from them, than
by the common way of Melting_, P. 1. 172.
_How to fix them in three hours space, so that they shall yield a
double quantity of Metal to what they would have done before_,
175.

Gold _to make out of Silver with profit, and Gold and Silver to
separate after a peculiar manner from Iron, Copper, Tin and Lead_,
P. 3. 46.
Gold _to separate from Iron or Copper by the Glass of Lead_, P. 2.
40.
_From_ Regulus _of Antimony without loosing the_ Regulus, ibid.
_From Copper_, 43.
_From Arsnick_, P. 1. 321.
Gold, _Silver, and Copper to extract from poor Oars, by_ Aqua Fortis
_or Spirit of Salt_, P. 1. 360, 415, 425, 426, 427.
_The same may be done with the Water of Salt, or Salt-peter, acuated
with the Oyl of Vitriol_, ibid.
_How to precipitate, and reduce the extracted Metals_, 416.
Gold _to augment by the imperfect Metals_, P. 1. 178, 361, 362.
Gold _and Silver to separate from each other, by a cheaper way than
the common_, P. 2. 194.
_and both from Copper_, 217.

Gout _Pains, suddenly to ease_, P. 1. 37. a. 288. a.
_Its Knots to dissolve_, 50.

_Gout to cure_, 265. b. P. 2. 24. b. 58, 59. P. 3. 28. b.
_Many Gouty persons cured in a few years by the Golden_ Panacæa _of_
Antimony, 110. b.

Gonorrhæa _to cure_, P. 2. 149. a.

Gravel _to expell_, P. 1. 37. a.

Grapes _to have ripe sooner than ordinary_, 183.
Grapes _dried, or Raisons how to recover their sweetness, as when
pluckt fresh from the Vine_, 284. b.

Griffin _Phylosophick generated of the Lion and Eagle_, 356. a. 406.
b. 407. a.

Gunpowder _found out by a_ Monk, _Anno 1380_, 433. a.
_The Authour thinketh the_ Monk _did ill to divulge it_, ibid. b.
_He speaks of another way to captivate Enemies without killing
them_, ibid.

H

Hair _to Dye, as also Skins, Wool, Bones, with a purple or red
Colour, constant and durable_, P. 2. 149. a.

Hens _delight in Salt, which makes them lay the more Eggs_, P. 1.
169. a.
_They devour Sand and small Pebbles for the matter of Egg-shells_,
284. a.

_Quick_ Hedges _to cause to grow up in half the usual time_, 191. b.

Herbs _to make grow up in a few hours space_, P. 1. 200. b. P. 3. 59.
a.
_To communicate to them the nature of any Metal_, 210. a.
_Herbs various and unknown, to produce without Seed_, 257. b. 289.
a. P. 2. 49.
_The great errour of_ Galenists, _in attributing the same vertues
to_ Herbs _in those Northern Climates, as were ascribed to them in
the Southern_, 217. a.
_The_ Herbs _of cold Countries may be rendred equal in vertue to
those of hot, by the Terrestrial Sun and Art_, 217. b.
Herbs _to discover by an experiment, whether they are profitable or
unprofitable in Medicine_, P. 2. 23.

History _of Gold made out of Sea-Salt_, P. 1. 412. a.
History _of an Infant preserved from Corruption many years, in a
certain Water, and at length turn’d into a Stone_, 260. a.
History _of a Mountebank at_ Paris, _kill’d by the Odour of a
spirituous or volatile Poyson_, P. 2. 85. a.
History _of a Country-man to whom a Doctor had prescribed_ Album
Græcum, 159. a.
History _of_ Sigismund Wan, _who built a Church and Hospital by
Wealth obtained from separating the Gold and Silver from Tin_,
201 a. P. 1. 371. b.

Hony _to Ferment before the distillation of its burning Spirit_, P.
1. 58.
_To take away its ungratefull Tast, and purge it from its hidden
Impurities, so that an excellent Drink may be made of it, for
small charge, serving instead of Wine_, 286. a. P. 2. 56.
_Or a Metheglin with Spices_, 57. a.

Hops _to produce in plenty_, P. 1. 191. b.
_To preserve the Hop-poles in the Earth, long from rotting_, ibid.

Horns _to soften, so that any Image may be printed upon them_, 182.

Hovels _of Grain, to keep Rats and Mice from running up the Posts_,
192. a.

I

Iron _to graduate into Gold by a Fulmen_, P. 3. 71. N. B.
_By_ Sal-mirabils, P. 2. 49.
_To exalt it into Copper by the same_, 50.
_All Iron contains Gold, both fixt and volatile_, P. 1. 375.
_An eighth part of_ Iron _changed into Gold_, P. 1. 230. a.
Iron _to change into Gold, Silver, or Copper, by a Fulmen_, 230. b.
Iron _to change into Copper according to_ Paracelsus, 240. a. 293.
b.
Iron _Tools changed into Copper, by length of time, in Mines of
Vitriol_, 229. a. 234. b.
Iron _to separate from Copper_, 326. b.
Iron _made as fusile and malleable as Copper_, P. 1. 375. a.

Itch, _or Scab, to cure_, 364. b.

J

Jupiter _and_ Venus _beget_ Apollo _and_ Diana, 401. b.

L

Land, _poor and barren_, to enrich _without Dung_, P. 1. 187, 189,
191, 193. b. 200. b. 405. a. 417. a. P. 2. 33.
_This Manure holds good twenty years_, ibid.
_The manner of preparing this_ Manure _of Common Salt and Lime_, P.
1. 416.

Lead _Oar, Course and not meltable, how to extract the Lead from it_,
P. 2. 18.
Lead, _or any Lead Oar, to reduce into Ashes, and thence to extract
Gold and Silver_, P. 1. 399. a. 414. P. 2. 36.

Lead _easily separated from its Oar, by adding Iron in the melting_,
P. 1. 74. a.

Lead _to amend by the graduating Extractions of coloured Flints_, P.
2. 37.
_How to reduce the Calx of Gold precipitated from the Lead, and
washed, without any loss_, 38, 39.
_Of the nature and property of_ Lead, 198.
_It contains a sharp Sal-nitrous Spirit_, 199.
Lead _to make hard like Iron, so that great Guns may be made of it_,
199. b.
_The inward juice of_ Lead _is sweeter than any Sugar_, P. 1. 381.
b.
_A white precipitate of_ Lead _to prepare_, 382. a.

_N. B._ Lead _hath the power of dulcifying Corrosives, and thence
grows so penetrant, that it will presentt run through three
Crucibles one in another_, P. 2. 200. a.
_To make it hard and white like Silver_, P. 3. 89. b.

_A red Stone of_ Saturn _and_ Mars _to prepare, with its manifold
Vertues in Physick and Chyrurgery_, P. 1. 382. b.
_It is the true_ Lapis Hæmatitis _of the ancient Physicians_, 383.
a.
_The red Sublimate ascending in this operation, is able by Sympathy,
to cure at a distance, any Flux of blood whatsoever_, ibid.
_A white Stone to prepare of_ Saturn _and_ Lune, 383.

_Black_ Lead _of Philosophers, what_, P. 2. 217. b.

Leprosie, _to cure_, P. 1. 265. b.