You will take two pounds of white honey, which has a good smell & taste. You put in a large glass cucurbit, three quarters of which are empty. You there cover with its well-wrought beak screed, to which you will apply a large container similarly lute. Make a low fire of ashes, until you see white vapors; & to condense them in spirit, you will apply on the screed & on the container of wet towels in cold water, and a liquor will come out which will be red blood. After the distillation, you will put this liquor in a well stoppered glass vessel, as long as the liquor is well clarified & ruby colored. After which you will distill seven or eight times, until its red color is converted to a golden yellow, & will take a very sweet & very pleasant smell. This quintessence dissolves gold in lime, & makes it drinkable. Two or three dragmes of this liquor taken internally, make them come back to them those who are at the end: it strengthens even those who enjoy health, heals the cough, catarrh & spleen; applied to wounds & ulcers, it heals them immediately, Fioraventi reports giving it to people near death, & that he thus recalled to life, to give them at least time to put their affairs in order. Distilled twenty times with fine silver, & given for forty-six days to a paralytic, it was cured of it: this is what Fioraventi says he himself experienced. On what this Doctor makes a very sane point about it, which God never promised in Holy Scripture, neither scammonée, nor cassia, nor turbith, nor rhubarb; but well wheat, wine, oil, milk & honey. https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=II. Quintessence de miel.%0AVous prendrez deux livres de miel blanc%2… 1/2 9/29/2020 Google Translate
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