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1. Take 4 ounces calcined alum, 4 ounces calcined saltpetre (KNO₃), and 2 ounces calcined sublimate (HgCl₂), and sublimate [refine] in a proper subliming vessel.
2. Carefully take out the sublimate, and resublimate it with 10 ounces fresh salts. During this operation it will be wholesome, on account of the poisonous fumes, to eat bread thickly spread with butter.
3. Put the sublimate in a glass retort, and cover it with alcohol, and distill it over in a water bath until half the fluid remains as an oil behind.
4. The alcohol distilled over is poured back [cohobated] on the residue in the retort, until it is covered about a finger's breadth.
5. This distillation repeat three times, and the whole of the sublimate will pass over into the recipient. This is the Mercury of the Philosophers, the Mercurial Water, as it were the Hellish fire in water (aqua regia?). This Mercurial Water fumes always, and it must be kept in a closed phial, or glass-stoppered bottle.
6. Take fine gold, in leaf or thin beaten, put it in a glass retort, just cover it with the Mercurial Water, and put the retort on gentle heat, when the Water will begin to act upon the gold, and dissolve it, but it will not be reduced to a liquid entirely, and only remain at the bottom like a greasy substance, then pour off the Mercurial Water, which can be used again.
7. The gold sediment divide into two parts. Take one half and pour thereon alcohol, and let the mixture putrefy on a gentle heat fifteen days, and it will become blood red; this is the Lion's Blood.
8. This Lion's Blood pour into another glass retort, or phial, which seal hermetically, and give it the heat of the Dog Days, and it will at first turn black, then variegated, then light gray; when heat is increased it will turn yellow and at last deep red. This is the first Tincture. [Provided it does not explode!]
9. The Red Tincture triturate [How will a fulminate triturate?] in a glass mortar. Take one grain thereof, wrap it in paper and project it on 1000 grains of gold in fusion. When it has remained in fusion for 1 hour, the gold will turn to the second Tincture.
10. Take one part of this Tincture, project it on one thousand parts of pure quicksilver, which has been heated until the fumes arise, and the quicksilver will be changed into the third Tincture.

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