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II. Quintessence of honey.

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.
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