Chemical Investigation of the Difference Between Philosophical and Mineral Antimony, as well as Philosophical and Common Mercury

and they dare, with great oaths and high promises, when they have impregnated it with the fiery Metallischen Schweffel-Geiste metallic sulfur-spirit by art (which in their opinion should help nature), and cleansed it of all Cruditäten crudities/impurities, to bring gold and all other metals into their first essence or primam materiam first matter with such. And indeed they undertake, and most are of the will—since the true Philosophi philosophers, according to their understanding and the resulting style of speaking and writing, mention Antimonii antimony in their writings—to accomplish such introduction of the metallic sulfur into Mercurium mercury and the resulting cleansing of the same by means of the common mineral Antimonium.