The Microcosmic Animal Stone, or the Supreme Medicine from the Little World of the Human Body

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...let it stand; then pour off the clear liquid from the cloudy part and distill the same from a glass cucurbit Cucurbit: A gourd-shaped chemical vessel or alembic Alembic: A distillation cap or apparatus into a suitable receiver original: "Fürlag". Seal everything well with lute verlutiren: To seal the joints of chemical apparatus with paste or clay to prevent leaks. The distillation should be performed in a sand bath in Arena or in ashes Cineribus These methods provided gentle, even heat compared to an open flame.. The distillate should be poured back onto the dregs Feces: The solid remains or sediment after distillation and distilled off again four times in succession. Finally, seal the liquid in a glass with a bladder soaked in wax and oil; otherwise, it will penetrate through and vanish into the air The author is likely describing the production of ammonia, which is highly volatile and will evaporate if not airtight.. In color, the liquid will be white and foul-smelling; so that it may be taken more easily and with less disgust This indicates the substance was intended for internal medicinal use., one must mix sugar and cinnamon into it.

The urine, however, should not be taken from adults or women, but from healthy twelve-year-old boys who, if possible, drink wine Early chemists believed the urine of "pure" youths, especially those consuming wine, contained a more potent "spirit" for their experiments.. The fire should be moderate, just as one is accustomed to using when distilling rue. The dregs, however, over which the distilled water is to be poured, will be coal-black; and if one drives them with a stronger fire, an exceedingly burning and ice-cold salt, white as snow, will sublime sublimiren: To heat a solid until it becomes a vapor and then collects again as a solid, a process used for purification. This salt dissolves solvirt gold and silver and all metals; for urine is one of the waters called solvents Menstrua among chemists Chimicis. See also Process 496.

339. Concerning the volatile Salt-Spirit of Urine, etc.