[Sidenote: The mortification and fixation of Sulphur.] Take common yellow Sulphur finely powdered, and draw from it by distillation _Aqua fortis_, that is very sharp, and this doe three times, then the Sulphur which is in the bottome of a black colour dulcifie with distilled water, until the water come from it sweet, and it retains no more the stink of Sulphur. Then reverberate this Sulphur in a close reverberatory as you doe Antimony, then it will first be white, then yellow, and lastly as red as Cinnabar. And when it is so, then thou maist rejoice: For it is the beginning of thy riches: This reverberated Sulphur tingeth Silver most deeply into most excellent Gold, and the body of Man into most perfect health. This reverberated, and fixed Sulphur is of more vertue then it is lawfull to speak. [Sidenote: The Mortification of Salts.] The mortification of all Salts, and whatsoever is saltish, is the taking away, and distilling off the aquosity, and oylinesse, and of the spirit of them. For if these be taken away, they are afterwards called the dead Earth, or _Caput Mortuum_. [Sidenote: The Mortification of Gemmes.] The mortification of Gemmes, and Coralls, is to calcine, sublime, and dissolve them into a liquor, as Crystall. The mortification of Pearls is to calcine them, and dissolve them in sharp Vineger into the form of Milke. [Sidenote: The Mortification of the Loadstone.] The mortification of the Loadstone, is to anoint it with the oyle of Mercury, or to put it into Quicksilver, for afterward it will not draw Iron at all to it. [Sidenote: The Mortification of flints and stones.] The mortification of Flints, and Stones, is to calcine them. [Sidenote: The Mortification of Marcasites.] The mortification of Marcasites, Cachyma’s, Talke, Cobaltus, Zinri, Granuti, Zunitter (_see Transcriber’s Note_), Unismut, and of Antimony is their Sublimation, _i.e._ that they bee sublimed with Salt, and Vitriall, then their life which is a Metallick spirit, together with the spirit of Salt, ascends. And let whatsoever remains in the bottome of the Sublimatory, bee washed, that the Salt may bee dissolved from it, and then thou hast a dead Earth, in which there is no vertue. [Sidenote: The Mortification of Realgar.] The mortification of Arsenickes, Auripigment, Operment, Realgar, &c. is, that they flow with Salt Nitre, and bee turned into an Oyl, or Liquor upon a Marble, and be fixed. [Sidenote: The Mortification of excrements.] The mortification of Excrements, is the coagulation of Aire. [Sidenote: The Mortification of Aromatical things.] The mortification of Aromaticall things is the taking away of their good smell. [Sidenote: Of Sweet things.] The mortification of sweet things, is to sublime and distill them with corrosive things. [Sidenote: Of Resines.] The mortification of Ambers, Resines, Turpentine, Gumme, and such like, is to turn them into Oyle, and Vernish. [Sidenote: Of Hearbs and Roots.]