Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

of purging, nor by way of consumption, but how this is done we shall say in its chapter.
And fumigations at a suitable time, such as what is done in a warm time or a cold one from a confection made of

confected, for these suffumigations open the obstructions of the brain, and corroborate the senses, and cause grayness to be retarded, and clarify the face, and consume the superfluous humidity of the brain, and dry and consume subcutaneous humidity, from which the skin is wrinkled and grows old. And this it operates because it draws all the subcutaneous humor to the surface, then dries it. Afterwards, one should use temperate baths, and without sweat, and it cleanses the skin from gathered filth, and opens the pores, and dries the superfluous humidity.
And likewise there are certain confections common in either complexion, such as the electuary of kings, which is called the annual medicine, which ought to be taken for an entire year. And the trifera a medicinal confection made from myrobalans. And the confection which is made from iron slag, but better if gold were in it, and many others which are contained in the books of the wise, but gold and pearl