Curious Collection on Bismuth

fingers high. The retort should be covered again from above with ⸫ ashes/sand three fingers high. Give fire gently only at the bottom and let the watery phlegma phlegm pass over sedately. Afterward, change the receiver and attach a new one, well luted. Then give △ fire gradatim gradually, and indeed when the spirits start to move, strengthen the △ at the bottom, and then cover the retort from above with coals, and drive strongly by △ of suppression. Also place the coals up to the neck of the retort (which should rightly be of good glass) so that the ♁ antimony matter is truly lifted and driven forth. It passes over into these blood-red drops. This ♁ grades Dñam the Lady/Silver, is very fixed, and does not allow itself to be driven over again through the retort a second time; rather, only the butter passes, the ♁ remains lying in the bottom, which note.

From the communication of David Rebentrost: A true process for the Universale Universal medicine, as it was given to him to be copied by a soldier in the year 1646 in Bohemia, as booty found during the war.

My son, you do not need to fetch our matter from India or other foreign places, nor buy it for great money; you can have it nearby and for little cost, the hundredweight for 8 Rthlr. Reichsthaler. Therefore, go in the name of the Holy Trinity out into the valleys and mountains, into the clefts of the earth; there you will find and encounter an old little man of unsightly appearance, of whom you might well say: