A Compendium of Alchemical Processes

Extracted from the writings of Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts. Partial Contents: Method for the Potable Gold; Preparation of Martial Regulus of Antimony; Great Medicine of Gold; Golden Carbuncle of the Ancients; True Tincture of Gold; Testing of Potable of Gold; How to Prepare a Famous Universal Medicine of Gold; Philosophers’ Water of Life; Golden Purple of Cassius; Extraction of Gold or Silver from Lead; Philosophic Stone: how prepared; Treatment of the Sphera Saturni; Practical Process in Alchemy; Preparation of the dissolving Water for Metals; the Alkahest; Fixation and Purification of Sulfur; Process for the Purification of Mercury; Mercury of Philosophers; How to imitate Natural Precious Stones; Vegetable Elixir; White Swan of Basilius; Volatile Salt of Animals; Tinctures of Mars and of Antimony; The True Balm of Life, or Royal Red Oil of Antimony; Modern Alchemical Experiments: Preparation of Magnesium by Electrolysis; Preparation of the Earth-metals; Reduction of Earth-metals; Separation of Earth-metals; Preparation of the Trioxide (Calx) of Gold.