The Chemical Writings of Brother Basilius Valentinus: The Treatises of Heinrich Eschenreuter

Third Little Treatise

vessel or glass, a fixation-vessel original: "Figir-Gefäß," a vessel designed to "fix" or stabilize a substance through heat., place it in a warm place, and put two pounds of urine original: ♎ upon it, and let it stand for eight hours original: ⌛, and it will all become blood-red like the previous [substance]. Afterward, pour it off and put just as much urine original: ♎ upon it as before, and let it stand again for just as long; and do this as often as necessary until nothing more will turn red.

This urine original: ♎ is afterward placed on a sand bath original: 🜝 (Balneum Arena) and allowed to evaporate, so that you have a mass, or a beautiful golden-yellow antimony gold-preparation original: 🜚. Put this powder into a well-sealed melting pot and let it melt together; thus you have a mass as hard as a stone. When this stone is ground very fine like flour on a marble stone, you have a magnificent medicine against this evil sickness Referring to the "Spanish Pox" or Syphilis.. When this stone is combined with the previously mentioned anti-scurvy remedy original: "Antiscorbutico", its power is doubled. Take half a Loth A traditional German unit of weight, approximately 15 grams or half an ounce. of this stone, powdered, and put it into thick-boiled juniper juice and form pills the size of peas. Give an infected person six grains A very small unit of weight, roughly 65 milligrams. in weight of this, and keep the person well protected from the air; in half an hour, he will begin to sweat and steam original: "rauchen," literally to smoke or give off vapor as if he were being boiled. Afterward, you must let him rest for two days, so