On Alchemy (1541) - Page 16

Chapter
LXI.	On the nature of the Sun, or Gold.	folio 133
LXII.	On the nature of the Moon, or Silver.	135
LXIII.	On the nature of Mars, or Iron. Also on the effects of sulfur and Mercury, and on the causes of corruption and perfection.	136
LXIIII.	On the nature of Venus, or Copper.	139
LXV.	On the nature of Jupiter, or Tin.	143
LXVI.	On the nature of Saturn, or Lead.	146

The following are contained in the second part concerning medicines and the necessity of perfection, etc.


LXVII.	For each imperfect body, and likewise for Mercury, there must necessarily be a twofold medicine: one for the white work original: "ad album"; the albedo or whitening stage of the Great Work, resulting in silver, and the other for the red work original: "ad rubeum"; the rubedo or reddening stage, resulting in gold; however, we are released from all these by a single, most perfect medicine.	150
LXVIII.	Each of the imperfect bodies must have its own preparation applied.	153
LXIX.	The deficiency of imperfect metals must be supplied by the medicine, while the excess must be removed by preparation.	155
LXX.	On the preparation of Saturn Lead and Jupiter Tin.	157
LXXI.	On the preparation of Venus Copper.	161
LXXII.	On the preparation of Mars Iron.	in the same place.
LXXIII.	On the purification of Mercury original: "Argenti uiui" or quicksilver.	163
LXXIIII.	Five different properties must necessarily bring about the most perfect medicine: namely cleanliness, color, fusion, endurance, and weight; from which an inference must be drawn as to what substances it is extracted from.	ibid.
LXXV.	On the preparations of the medicine to be applied, so that it may acquire the proper differences of properties.	165
LXXVI.	On the differences between medicines: namely that some are of the first order, some of the second, and some of the third This classification refers to the strength and complexity of the alchemical elixirs..	166
LXXVII.	On medicines of the first order for whitening Venus Copper.	168
LXXVIII.	On medicines for whitening Mars Iron.	171
LXXIX.	On medicines for yellowing the Moon original: "Lunam citrinantibus"; the process of citrinization to make silver resemble gold.	173
LXXX.	On the differences of properties in the medicine of the second order.	175