Extracted from the writings of Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts.
Partial Contents:
Method for the Potable Gold; Preparation of Martial Regulus of Antimony;
Great Medicine of Gold; Golden Carbuncle of the Ancients;
True Tincture of Gold; Testing of Potable of Gold;
How to Prepare a Famous Universal Medicine of Gold; Philosophers' Water of Life;
Golden Purple of Cassius; Extraction of Gold or Silver from Lead; Philosophic Stone: how prepared; Treatment of the Sphera Saturni; Practical Process in Alchemy; Preparation of the dissolving Water for Metals;
the Alkahest; Fixation and Purification of Sulfur;
Process for the Purification of Mercury; Mercury of Philosophers; How to imitate Natural Precious Stones; Vegetable Elixir;
White Swan of Basilius; Volatile Salt of Animals;
Tinctures of Mars and of Antimony; The True Balm of Life, or Royal Red Oil of Antimony;

Modern Alchemical Experiments:
Preparation of Magnesium by Electrolysis; Preparation of the Earth-metals;
Reduction of Earth-metals; Separation of Earth-metals;
Preparation of the Trioxide (Calx) of Gold.

This is a fascinating read on alchemy and how it was actually practiced in centuries past - some of it is tough going but for the most part, quite eye-opening and fathomable.

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