Particular from the Universal

open-heartedly, this medicine of mine is prepared from nothing else than from the materia the primary substance from which the healthy and gold-making powder of the wise is made, and from prepared mercury purified quicksilver, or the Rebis Philosophorum the twofold matter of the philosophers, which, so that it also comes to the Lapide Philosophorum Philosopher's Stone, and has nothing impure nor dangerous, but entirely different qualities than common quicksilver, will be demonstrated below with more.

I have indeed used common gold for it until now; but as I found the same adhering to the bottom of the vials, and thereafter found the said glass even more and more deeply gilded without the addition of gold, I consider it a superfluity