Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.

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Author:	Basilius Valentinus.
Title:	Of natural & supernatural things also of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals, how the same are conceived, generated, brought forth, changed, and augmented / [by] Basilius Valentinus ; translated out of high Dutch by Daniel Cable ; whereunto is added Frier Roger Bacon, Of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his Work of Saturn; and Alex. Van Suchten, Of the secrets of antimony.
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Subject terms:	Alchemy.
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BASILIUS VALENTINUS, OF Natural and Supernatural Things.

CHAP. I.

CHAP. II. Of the first Tincture and Roots of Metals.

CHAP. III. Of the Spirit of Mercury.

CHAP. IV. Of the Spirit of Copper.

CHAP. V. Of the Spirit and Tincture of Mars.

CHAP. VI. Of the Spirit of Gold.

CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of Silvor

CHAP. VIII. Of the Soul or Tincture of Tin.

CHAP. IX. Of the Spirit of Saturn, or Tincture of Lead.

Of the Medicine or Tincture of Antimony, as well to preserve Mans Body in Health, and to divert all desperate and incura∣ble Diseases, as also to cure the Leprosie of Metals, to purifie and to transmute them into the best Gold.

Now we come to the Manual Ope∣ration.

The Water wherein we dissolve is thus made.

In the Gout.

In the Leprosie.

In the Apoplexie.

In the Dropsie.

In the Falling Sickness, and its kinds, as Epilepsie, Catalepsie, and Analepsie.

In a Hectick.

In Agues.

In the Plague.

For a prolongation of a healthful Life.

Its Multiplication.

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The PREFACE.

A Work of Saturn

part

Example.

Why is it as white as Snow?

Why is it sweet?

What hath God in us, for whose sake he hath created all these wonders, and all these things?

Now, my child, why is Saturn fluxible as Wax?

The second way of preparing the Water of Paradise.

The Multiplication of the Stone now perfected.

Projection upon Metal.

It's Use in Physick.

Its Use in External Diseases.