from spagyric medicine in rams
Take some of our sea water. It must be healthy and clean. Take 40 measures (quarts) . leave it for a whole month in a dark heat, so that it can properly putrefy . The longer it stays thus, the more spirit it will give. Then distill it in ash, and a spirit strong as fire will come out of it. This spirit must be well rectified and poured back on the black mass that is left behind, then distilled by degrees. Now a beautiful crystalline salt will rise to the head. rectify it and preserve it well, lest it fly away. Calcine the body that is left till it is brown. Then extract from it its fixed white salt with its phlegm. Distill a spirit from this same salt into which you must pour, drop by drop, the first volatile spirit turned into water, which will cause it to roar strongly. Now remove the phlegm form it, gently, in the BM. At the bottom of the vessel a white gum will be left, which enclose in the Philosophers egg and cook in a steam bath until it congeals into a stone of transparent ruby colour. This, with 6 to 12 grains will cure all inner and outer diseases...'