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[Addition: You will achieve a more efficient work if you free the removed and ground material from the salt-petre through edulcorations washings with water to remove soluble salts with simple water, then join the dried material again with an equal amount of nitre, and repeat this operation a third time after first removing the nitre. By this method, for one operating correctly, no subsequent reverberation prolonged heating in a reflective furnace to change the color or state of a substance will be necessary, since through these very calcinations repeated so many times, the highest whiteness will follow. Use. The dose is 15 grains to half a scruple a historical unit of weight, roughly 0.6 to 1.3 grams. Its use is only diaphoretic inducing perspiration to "sweat out" a disease, and not of sudden operation: for which reason the doses must be repeated several times. But it brings a particular benefit to internal apostemes abscesses or deep-seated swellings of the body, lurking in the viscera; for this powder taken daily four or five times, in 10 or 15 grains, in wine or Scabious water a herbal distillate from the Scabiosa plant, traditionally used for skin and respiratory issues, gradually dissolves all internal collections, whether mature or immature, and eliminates them without any harm. In the venereal disease original: Lue venerea; syphilis, after preceding mercurial purgations the use of mercury-based laxatives to "cleanse" the system, a standard but harsh practice of the time, about which we speak elsewhere, it is the sole cure; taken in the same dose and with repeated turns. It renews the whole body, casts off old hair and skin, repairing the same anew, even in the plague.

Croll’s Diaphoretic of Antimony with Gold:

Diaphoretic of Antimony with Gold. Take one pound of sublimated Mercury mercury processed with salt and vitriol to create corrosive sublimate through Salt and Vitriol sulfuric acid or metal sulfates, add three pounds of Hungarian Antimony, let them be ground together and mixed, and let all be put into a glass retort a glass vessel with a long, downward-curving neck used for distillation protected with lute a clay or paste used to seal or protect glass from high heat, with a closed receiver attached. Let the distillation be done in a sand bath heating the vessel in a pan of sand to ensure even, controlled temperature with a cover for the fire, so that the drops do not freeze in the neck like Butter referring to "Butter of Antimony," a thick, waxy substance that can clog the distillation equipment; when this appears, a burning coal must soon be moved near with tongs, so close that it does not harm the glass and yet dissolves it, and this must be repeated as often as necessary. Once the liquor has come out, rectify distill again to purify it once. Afterwards, pour the melted substance into a large glass that has a long neck, and pour in Aqua Regis original: aqua Regis; "Royal Water," a powerful mixture of acids capable of dissolving gold (others use only spirit of nitre nitric acid); let it be done at least drop by drop, because of the noise and danger of effervescence. When you see the whole material is plainly dissolved, pour in—for example, if there was a half-pound of oil—also one loth original: loton; a Germanic unit of weight approximately 15-16 grams of Gold previously dissolved separately in Aqua Regis. In this way the mixture will remain clear, not cloudy, and of a very deep red color; otherwise, unless you proceed thus, the solution will become cloudy, and the gold will not truly incorporate itself, and after the abstraction the removal of liquid through evaporation or distillation, sparkling glints of Gold will still appear. Put this whole clear and very red solution into an alembic a distillation apparatus consisting of a gourd-like vessel and a cooling cap well sealed with lute, with the head and receiver added, the joints well protected...

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