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joints. Set aside the water that has passed into the receiver and keep it in a well-stoppered bottle. Expose the caput mortuum Literally "dead head"; the useless residue left after distillation. to the air again as you had done before to make it fall into deliquium once more. Then take the liquid again and what remains on the glass of the caput mortuum, put it all into a retort and distill as before. Repeat this work until your flowers are almost all reduced to liquid.

Then take all these liquids, filter them, and purify them in a steam bath until they leave no sediment. (See the manner of clarifying dissolutions in Deloques.) Putrify them in a gentle water bath Bain-marie: a hot water bath. in well-closed matrasses Glass vessels with a long neck for heating. for forty days, then filter them and separate them from the sediment that might have formed. Then distill them in a boiling water bath in tall cucurbits Vessel used for distillation. until a film forms, then cause them to crystallize according to the art, as one does with vitriol, keeping the same precautions. Then all your liquids being reduced to a film and crystallized, they form the true salt of zinc, which is the greatest precipitant there is in nature. This salt is as sweet as sugar of lead (sugar of Saturn); it can never be revived into a body. It is purified like all fixed salts by means of the phlegms In alchemy, watery or spiritless distillates. that have passed in the distillation, and in the absence of said phlegms, one uses distilled rainwater (the rainwater of the equinoxes or the May dew is