Physico-Medical Treatise on the Thorough Cure of Tartar, Gravel, and Sand

II. Second Spagyric preparation.

Therefore, the aforementioned nature-knowers went to work with the stones / often Spagirisch spagyrically / in a Laboratorio chymico chemical laboratory / treating or handling them with some Igne fire / with fire (because fire also bores through the rocks and makes them crumbly) USTIONE burning / namely either with simple glowing-burning / or even with reverberatione reverberation with striking flames / CALCINANDO calcinating / turning them into subtle lime; (Manifestatur enim ustione SAL rerum naturalium: & acredo vel salsedo, quæ rei fortiter ustæ inest, non ab igne, quemadmodum non nulli antehac perperam putarunt, oritur vel infunditur, verum per ignem è re subjecta ipsa, in lucem producitur atq; manifestatur original: "For the SALT of natural things is made manifest by burning; and the sharpness or saltiness that is found in strongly burned matter does not arise or get infused by the fire, as some before now wrongly thought, but it comes from the matter itself, and is merely brought to light and opened by the fire"; That is / For the salt of natural things / is made manifest by burning; and the sharpness or saltiness / which is found in strongly burned matter / is not poured into or given to the same by the fire / as some before this / however wrongly / have supposed; but it comes from the matter itself / and is only brought forth and opened out of it by the fire) they dissolved and extracted such corpora lapidea calcinata calcined stony bodies / (some, however, also absq; ignis ustione without burning in fire) with various foreign menstruis solvents / vel solutivis or dissolving agents / vel extractivis or extracting agents / either as / according to opportunity / with wine,