The sweet Sublimate, of which the _Panacæa_ is immediately compos'd, is made with sixteen Ounces of corrosive Sublimate, pulveriz'd in a Marble or Glass-Mortar, intermixing with it by little and little, twelve Ounces of _Mercury_ reviv'd from Cinnabar: Let this Mixture be stirr'd about with a Wooden Pestle, till the Quick-silver become imperceptible; then put the Powder, which will be of a grey Colour, into divers Glass-Vials, or into a Matras, of which two third parts remain empty; place your Vessel on the Sand, and kindle a small Fire in the beginning, the Heat of which may be afterward encreas'd to the third Degree: Let it continue in this Condition till the Sublimate be made; and the Operation will be generally consummated {178} in four or five Hours: whereupon you may break your Vial, and throw away as useless, a little light Earth that lies at the bottom. You must also separate that which sticks to the Neck of the Vials, or of the Matras, and keep it for Ointments against the Itch; but carefully gather together the white Matter which lies in the middle, and having pulveriz'd it, cause it to be sublimated in the Vials or Matras, as before. This Matter must also be separated again (as we have already shown) and put into other Vials to be sublimated a third time. Lastly, the terrestrial parts in the bottom, and the fuliginous in the Neck of the Vials, must be, in like manner, separated, still preserving the Sublimate in the middle, which will then be very well dulcify'd, and amount to the quantity of twenty five Ounces and an half: It is an Efficacious Remedy for all sorts of Venereal Diseases; removes Obstructions, kills Worms, and purgeth gently by stool, being taken in Pills from six Grains to thirty. _Of the proper Composition of the _Mercurial Panacæa_._