Chemical Investigation of the Difference Between Philosophical and Mineral Antimony, as well as Philosophical and Common Mercury

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However, they never attain the goal of their intention in this labor of theirs. original: "Nam in cognitô principiô finis semper dubius & incertus." For if the beginning is known, the end is always doubtful and uncertain. Mercurius vulgaris common mercury/quicksilver or quicksilver, as well as mineral Antimonium antimony, are already specified by nature as corporal, metallic, and mineral. They are dead and no longer capable of any effect. They can never attain greater and higher perfection, unless they are brought again into their first essence or primam materiam first matter through the philosophical, living, and active Universal-Mercurium universal mercury, mediante putrefactione by means of putrefaction, through which the purum pure is separated from the impurum impure (which is to be well noted).