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Ǧābir Ibn-Ḥaiyān · 1545

LIX. On the nature of mercury or quicksilver. 103
LX. On the nature of marcasite, magnesia, and tutty. 105
LXI. On the nature of Sol gold or gold. 106
LXII. On the nature of Luna silver or silver. 108
LXIII. On the nature of Mars iron or iron. Also on the effects of sulphur and mercury, and on the causes of corruption and perfection. 109
LXIIII. On the nature of Venus copper or copper. 111
LXV. On the nature of Jupiter tin or tin. 114
LXVI. On the nature of Saturn lead or lead. 117
In the second part, on medicines and the necessity of perfection, etc., these things are contained.
LXVII. That for every imperfect body, and likewise for quicksilver, there will necessarily be a twofold medicine, namely one for the white and the other for the red, from all of which, however, we are excused by one most perfect one. 120
LXVIII. That its own preparation must be applied to each of the imperfect bodies. 122
LXIX. That the defect of imperfect metals must be supplied by medicine, and superfluity must be removed by preparation. 124
LXX. On the preparation of Saturn and Jupiter. 125
LXXI. On the preparation of Venus. 128
LXXII. On the preparation of Mars. 129
LXXIII. On the cleansing of quicksilver. 130
LXXIIII. Five different properties
that a most perfect medicine must necessarily bring, namely cleanliness, color, fusion, perpetuity, and weight, from which conjecture must be taken as to from what things it may be elicited. 131
LXXV. On the preparations of medicine to be applied so that it may acquire the due differences of properties. 132
LXXVI. On the differences of medicines, namely that some are of the first order, some of the second, and some of the third. 133
LXXVII. On medicines of the first order that whiten Venus. 135
LXXVIII. On medicines that whiten Mars. 137
LXXIX. On medicines that turn Luna yellow. 138
LXXX. On the differences of the properties of the medicine of the second order. 141
LXXXI. On lunar and solar medicine for imperfect bodies. 142
LXXXII. On the medicine that coagulates quicksilver. 144
LXXXIII. How ingress the ability to penetrate and transmute is procured for medicines by art. 145
LXXXIIII. On the medicine of the third order in general. 146
LXXXV. On the lunar medicine of the third order. 147
LXXXVI. On the solar medicine of the third order. 148