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Keep each glass separate in the B. M. Bain-Marie or water bath until the water is heavily extracted. Pour off this water and weigh it carefully. In this way, you will find how many loth a traditional unit of weight, roughly half an ounce of extract concentrated medicinal substance you have in each water.
When you have the same amount of extract in one water as in the other, pour the waters together. Let them stand for several more days in the B. M. Afterwards, distill the water completely out of the B. M., as much as it is possible to drive over from the bath. Take the massam residue or physical mass that remains behind and put it into a bowl. Dry it until it becomes like a thick paste, firm and sticky. Then spread it out on a clean paper to the thickness of half a knife-back. Let it dry further until it can be rolled. Put these rolls into a coated retort a glass flask with a long, curved neck. Drive it out with this The original text uses a small triangle symbol, which represents the alchemical element of fire. into a coated receiver. First, an over-sour water goes over. After this clear water, the colored spirit comes: the red Tinctur tincture or joined blood. It appears in the form of a volatile smoke and a heavy water-mist, like a falling cloud. If I have diligently maintained the Regiment controlled heat and procedure of the extraction, the red dry blood has also come over for me in the mist, appearing like red drops.