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On Alchemy (1541) - Page 17 - Source Library

On Alchemy

Geber; Roger Bacon; Hermes Trismegistus · 1541

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Chapter LXXXI.	On the Lunar and Solar medicine for imperfect bodies. Lunar medicines were intended to create silver, while Solar medicines were intended to create gold.	folio 177
LXXXII.	On the medicine that coagulates Quicksilver original: "Argentum uiuum"; mercury.	179
LXXXIII.	How penetration is attained for medicines. original: "ingressio"; the ability of the alchemical elixir to enter and transform the base metal.	181
LXXXIIII.	On the medicine of the third order in general.	182
LXXXV.	On the Lunar medicine of the third order.	183
LXXXVI.	On the Solar medicine of the third order.	185

In the third part, regarding the proofs of perfection,

these things are contained.


LXXXVII.	Division of the topics to be discussed.	187
LXXXVIII.	On the cupel, and why certain bodies endure in it, and others do not. original: "cineritio"; the process of cupellation used to test the purity of gold and silver by heating them in a porous vessel.	in the same place.
LXXXIX.	How the examination by cupel is to be performed.	190
XC.	On Cementation, and why certain bodies endure it more, and others less. original: "Cemento"; a method of refining gold by heating it with corrosive salts.	191
XCI.	The examination by cementation: how it is to be composed and performed.	193
XCII.	On ignition the process of heating a metal to a glow to observe its reaction..	195
XCIII.	On fusion the melting of metals..	196
XCIIII.	On exposure to the vapors of sharp substances original: "uapores acutorum"; corrosive vapors like those from vinegar or acids used to test metal stability..	197
XCV.	On the quenching of heated objects.	199
XCVI.	On the admixture of burning Sulfur.	200
XCVII.	On calcination and reduction. Calcination turns a metal into powder through heat, while reduction restores it to its solid metallic state.	202
XCVIII.	On the easy acceptance of Quicksilver.	in the same place.
XCIX.	Recapitulation of the whole art.	203
C.	Which method the author followed in delivering this art.	204

End of the Sum of Perfection.

OF THOSE THINGS which are contained in the individual chapters of the Book on the Invention of Truth.


I.	On the six properties of things from which medicine is extracted.	206
II.	On the seven properties of medicine.	207
III.	Division of the entire book into four parts.	209

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