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Salt of Pe Hit ory of Spain .

Dry the Roots, and barn it in a dose luted pot, for three dayes, until it be re-duced into white Ashes: pour on its own Menstruum: distil it, and calcine it again *so the third time : then cleanse it with a Feather, boyl it in an earthen vemishedPipkin, with the white of an Egg to clarifie the Salt: at length, a white grained Saltwill appear.

Salt of Cum 'ine.

Put the Roots, Leaves, and Flowers in a close luted Vessel, and dry them, and putthem into a Potters Furnace, till they be burned to Ashes. In the mean while,distil the Roots, Leaves and Flowers; or, if you please, make a decoction of them ;and of that decoction, a sharp Lye: which, being strained very clean through a Li-nen-cloth three or four times, must be boyled to a Salt in a Glafs-Veflcl. If youdesire it very fine and white, strow the Salt upon a Marble, and set it in a moist placewith a pan underneath to receive it as it diffolveth : cleanse the filth still away; anddo this three times,until it become of aChrystal colour; so reserve. In this mannerSal Alehali is made.

Of Saxifrage.

It is made like the former: if you season your meat with it, !t protecteth from alldanger of poyfoDed bread or meat ; conferveth from the contagion of pestilentialand infections Air. The fame may be extracted out of other Alexipharmacal Bo-dies, which Princes may use at meals, instead of ordinary Salt; for they scarce differin taste. A Salt may be made of Thapsia , very good to remove the Stone in theBladder or Kidneys, and to dissolve the Tartar, or viscous Concrefcency; to kill theWorms, and purge the Blood ; to provoke sweat by being often taken , and is ad-mirable in Venereal Diseales. The Salt of Pimpernel, being taken three days, andthe third month,for a mans whole life-time,fecureth him from the Dropsie,Pthisick,and Apoplexy. It also preferveth from Infection and pestiferous Air, and helpcrhdigestion in a weak Stomack. But it is to be observed, That these Salts must not beeaten every day , lest they become too familiar to the Stomack, and be taken forfood. There may be a Salt also extracted out of the filings of Lignum Guaiacum,which is excellent in the French Pox, being taken as the former. By these you maylearn to make other Salts.

Chap. XVII.

Of Elixirs.

E Lixirs are the Conservators of Bodies in the fame condition wherein they findethem : for their Vertue is to preserve from corruption, not by melioratingtheir state, but by continuing it; and is by accident, they cure any Diseases, it is byreason of their tenuity. They have a double Vertue to preserve from sickness, andcontinue health , not onely in Men, but to preserve Plants also. They imitate thequalities of Balsam, and resort chiefly to the Heart, Brain,and principal Parts, wherethe Spirits reside. There are three kinds ef Elixirs ; of Metals, of Gems, and ofPlants; as of Roots, Herbs, Flowers,Seeds, Woods,Gums, and 1'uch-like. An Elixirdiffereth from Eflences,Tinctures, and the rest ; because it is compounded of manythings void of fatness: therefore it cannot be an Oyl,because it wanteth perspicuityand clearness; not an Essence, because it is a Compound ; not a Tincture, but amean between all, and of a consistence most like to Water : whence it had its nameab eliqptefco , to be dissolved or liquified.

To make Elixir of ‘Pimpernel.

Dig up vhe Roots in a convenient time, and macerate them in their Water, puttingft me weight on them to depress them under Water: when the Flowers are blown,gather them,and macerate them in the fame manner, in a peculiar Vessel: the same

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