After the same manner you may make spirits out of all kind of horns and claws of beasts: but since by reason of their ill smel the use of them is not liked of (though in several heavy diseases, as in the fits of the mother and Epilepsie, they do admirably well:) therefore I will acquiesce. However it is worth observing, that the spirit made of mans hair is not to be rejected in metallical operations, for it dissolveth common sulphur, and reduceth it into a milk, which by further ripening may be turned into blood, the like whereunto no spirit is able to do. The same spirit may also of it self, without addition of sulphur be fixed into a ruby; but that which is ripened with sulphur is the better; and if it be brought so far by the fire, that it have lost its stink, and be made fixed than it will be able sufficiently to pay for the pains and coals bestowed upon it. N. B. Hither belongeth the Process to pour dissolved metals upon filed hartshorn, and so to distil them. _Of the oyl of Ambar._ Ambar yeildeth a very pleasant oyl and of great vertue especially the white Ambar: the yellow is not so good, and the black is inferior to this; for by reason of its impurity it cannot be well used inwardly; and there cometh over also along with it a volatile salt and an acid water, which must be seperated; the water (for ought that I know) is of little vertue; the salt if it be sublimed from the salt of Tartar and purified, is a good diuretick, and in the Stone and the Gout, may successfully be used both inwardly and outwardly. The oyl if it be rectified, especially that which comes over first, is an excellent medicine against the Plague, Epilepsy, rising of the Mother and Megrim, 6, 8, 10, to 20. drops being taken thereof at once, and the nostrils also being anoynted therewith for to smell to it; and it is to be observed, that when it is rectified with spirit of salt, it proveth much clearer, than done by it self without addition: but if it be rectified with salt of tartar, it is of much more vertue, though it fall not so clear, as that which is done by spirit of salt. N.B. If it be rectified from a strong _Aqua Regia_ having before once already been rectified with spirit of salt, it will turn so subtle, that it is able to dissolve iron or copper in some sort, and to reduce them into good medicines; and in this second rectification by _Aqua Regia_ all will not come over, but part of it will be coagulated by the corrosive water, so that it turneth thick, like unto mastich, which in the warmth is soft, and may be handled with owns fingers like wax, but in the could it is so hard, that it may be broken and made into powder, and glistereth like gold. _Of the oyl of soot._