Curious Collection on Bismuth

stals. Grind these crystals and the calcem Solis lime/ash of gold in a hand mill and so forth, usque ad fervorem summum until the highest heat, then expose to the air without wind, sun, or rain. After attraction, grind again, and repeat this about 14 days, altering it as often as necessary. Mix this powder with the aforementioned calce Solis gold lime, enclose it in glass, and let it flow gently in the heat; a ☿ mercury will sublime from it, which revivifies when poured over with Acet. Vin. wine vinegar. NB: Post-trituration, the matter must not be driven with too fast △ fire, but rather fostered gently in a mild digestive heat and brought to action, where it then unlocks itself and resolves into ☿ium mercury.

By Dr. Keiling.

According to the common way, one mark of ☉ gold is calcined via Aquam Regis royal water. This calcined ☉ is kept in a flat cupellation dish under a sealed muffle, in such a way that another small cupellation dish is placed behind it. Now, when everything with the ☉ is in a brown glow, carry one Loth half-ounce of the powder described below onto the rear empty cupellation dish with a long iron spoon every hour, and let the gold-lime smoke well with it. This adding must be done six times every day, each time one Loth with exact caution, so that absolutely nothing of the corporeal powder might fall into the forward gold-dish. And although nothing is added in the remaining hours of the day, the heat is maintained until night in a gentle