Manly P. Hall Collection, Box 10

To then extract this living sulfur and have it pure, one must pour over it a good quantity of the subtle spirit, well deflegmated and prepared as we have said above, then digest it over a low fire, decant it, and pour on some more. Digest and decant, and do this until this spirit no longer colors itself. Then assemble all the extractions and decantations, and withdraw all the spirit in the water bath until there remains at the bottom of the retort A vessel with a long, downward-pointing neck, used in distillation. only an oily, greasy, and unctuous substance, which is a fine tincture and the proximate matter of metals and minerals; in a word, it is their prolific seed.

But if one does not wish to perform this extraction, one must then nourish this subtilized salt little by little with its own spirit, well deflegmated, until it has drunk at least ten times its weight, or until it is well sated. Then the whole remains in the cold and the heat in the consistency of a fixed oil similar to the one above.

To perfect one or the other of these oils, one seals them in a matrass, three-quarters empty, then keeps it for eight days in moderate sand; then another ten days in the water bath, and one continues thus alternately for three months—the longer, the better. Then distill the whole in the retort and separate it exactly from its feces The dregs or impurities remaining after distillation., if any have precipitated; this then forms a permanent purple liquid that the philosophers call the "Salamander," an incombustible,