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

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Reductio reduction requires much effort and a long time. However, the Antimonium and Mercurius Philosophorum philosophers' mercury are not separate things. They are of one substance and root, and are only kept distinct by the philosophers in the progress of the philosophical work. For the philosophers call the nigredinem blackness or blackness, which appears through the action of color into moisture, by means of putrefaction, their Antimonium, their Lead, and Saturn. But a distinguished philosopher describes the true and correct distinction of the Philosophical & Common Antimony with the following words: Antimonium Philosophorum est materia metallica dissoluta suo humido viscoso, in quô putrescit The philosophers' antimony is metallic matter dissolved by its own viscous moisture, in which it putrefies