I N D E X.

Celery: how it may be generated most swiftly (113, 150); how it may sprout quickly (113); how to make it grow large (124); how to make it grow curly (150).
Anchovies: generated from foam (52); small mullets generated from rot (53).
Water: for clearing wrinkles from the face, whitening it, and inducing a shine (358, 359).
Water of life original: "Aqua vitae"; high-proof distilled alcohol used in medicine and alchemy.: how it is distilled (371); how to extract it from grape-must (373).
Aqua Fortis aqua fortis: "strong water," or nitric acid, used for dissolving and separating metals.: for the separation of gold, how it is extracted (407); for the separation of silver; from salt; how it is purged of phlegm In early chemistry, "phlegm" referred to the watery, inactive part of a distilled substance. (407, 408).
Scented Water: called Nanfa original: "Nanfa"; a fragrant orange-blossom water popular in the Renaissance.; how it is made clear (414).
Musk water: made from jasmine, musk roses, cloves, violets, lilies; composite scented waters (370, 371, 415).
Scented water: from styrax, laser A resinous gum, possibly silphium or asafoetida., and labdanum (418).
Burning water: how the strongest kind is made (446).
Water: how it is separated from wine (580, 584); how to make it rise (591, 592).
Salt water: how it may become sweet (598, 599, 600); how salt water may be distilled (600); how it may be improved (603).
Eagle: how it mates with various birds, from which come the Sea-eagle, the Ossifrage literally "bone-breaker," referring to the bearded vulture., and the Vulture (75); its poison (502).
Tree: how a single tree may bear every kind of fruit Referring to the art of multiple grafting on a single trunk. (151).
Silver: how to separate it from gold (586); how to tint it into gold (233, 234); how to extract gold from it (234); how to diminish it (239); how to separate it from copper (242); and from other metals (243).

Quicksilver original: "Argentum vivum"; mercury.: how to coagulate it with an iron vessel or with bronze filings (231, 232); how a "water" is extracted from it (232); how it may grow into a tree The "Tree of Diana," an alchemical arborescent growth of silver amalgam. (233); how it preserves all things (193).
Sublimated mercury: how to prepare it (348); how it may be distilled into a water (349).
Arum original: "Ari"; the Cuckoo-pint or Lords-and-Ladies plant.: an excellent bread is made from its root (195); how to make it grow large (125).
Weapon Salve original: "Armorum vnguentum"; a famous "sympathetic" medicine intended to cure a wound by applying the ointment to the weapon that caused it rather than the patient. (326).
Aromatics: how to extract the quintessence quintessence: the "fifth element" or most purified, potent essence of a substance. from spices (392).
Asbestos stone: how to spin it Porta describes weaving "everlasting" cloth from mineral fibers. (217).
Ass: how a noble one may be born (64); how to make one drunk (597).
Asparagus: how it is born (92, 93); how to have it daily (116); how to make it white (136).
Asphodel: bread made from it (196).
Atocium original: "Atotium"; likely referring to atocium, a medicament to prevent conception or a skin treatment.: how to induce it (613).
Blackcaps: poison for them (502).
Hazelnuts: how to make Tarentine nuts (132); how to preserve them (176); how to extract oil from them (214).
Bird: how it may be born from the rotting fruit of trees (51); from the putrefaction of wood (ibid.); various cross-breedings of them (71).
Bird: how it may roast itself (481); when it should be rejected (476); how to make it drunk (499); so that it does not fly high, or flee from you (504).
Bird: how its flesh may become tender (467, 470); how it may be stuffed (471).
Bird: born from the fruit of a certain tree (51); what must be done so it mates with others, or stays in your company (88).