Collectanea chemica : being certain select treatises on alchemy and hermetic medicine / By Eirenaeus Philalethes [pseud.], Dr. Francis Antony, George Starkey, Sir George Ripley, and anonymous unknown.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Collectanea chemica : being certain select treatises on alchemy and hermetic medicine / By Eirenaeus Philalethes [pseud.], Dr. Francis Antony, George Starkey, Sir George Ripley, and anonymous unknown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Work, put so much of the foresaid Gold Ferment as may contain the fourth part of the said stone ; and then fix them as you did the white stone, under fire in a fixatory vessel, which will be then very well done in two or three days. The Work of Inceration for the Red. When they are thus fixed together, and thereby become one very fine powder, incerate, that is imbibe it, with the Red Oil of our stone ; then congeal it again, and again imbibe and congeal, and iterate this work so often until it will flow in fire as wax, but not evaporate when it is put upon a plate of copper fiery hot ; which then congeal up until it be clear, trans- parent, hard, red in colour, like a ruby or jacinth, which then is the Medicine of the Third Degree, and the Perfect Red Stone, transmuting all bodies, and especially § , \ , and ]) into as pure © as any of the natural mine. Thus have you the making of the Phil-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21008267_0144.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
