And thus out of any mineral may be made Flowers whether it be fixed, or volatile; for it is forced to fly on high being cast into the fire. And these may be used diversly in Chyrurgery, in plaisters and unguents; for they dry, and astring potently, especially those that are made of _lapis calaminaris_. Neither are they to be slighted that are made of the golden, and silver marcasite. Those that are made of arsenic & auripigmentum, are poysonous, but are useful for Painters. Arsenic & auripigmentum being calcined with nitre, and then sublimed, yield Flowers that are safely to be taken inwardly, expelling all poysons by sweat and stool: For they are corrected two wayes, _viz._ first by the nitre, secondly by the fire in the subliming: they are not therefore to be feared, because that Arsnick was poysonous before the preparation thereof. For by how much the greater poyson it was before preparation, so much the greater medicine afterwards. The Flowers of sulphur are taught in the Second Part, although they may also be made by this furnace, _viz._ the natures and properties thereof being known by an expert Artist, or otherwise it is burnt. So also stones being prepared are brought into Flowers, and many other things, of which we need not say any thing, only let him that pleaseth make tryal thereof. And now I suppose I have made plain, and shewed you clearly how distillation is to be made in this our first furnace; wherefore I will now end. He therefore that understands and knows the fabrick of the furnace (which he may understand by the delineation thereof) and the use thereof, will not deny but that I have done a good work, and will not disapprove of my labour. And this is the best way of distilling, and subliming incombustible things. In the Second Part you shall find another furnace in which are distilled combustible things, as also most subtil spirits, _&c._ The first furnace serves also for other uses, as the separation of metals; of the pure from the impure; for the making of the central salt, and of the _humidum radicale_ of them all. But because it cannot be done after the aforesaid way, by which things are cast into the fire to get their flowers, and spirits, but after a certain secret Philosophical manner, by the power of a certain secret fire, hitherto concealed by the Philosophers (neither shall I prostrate that secret before all); It is sufficient that I have given a hint of it for further enquiry, and have shewed the way to other things. _FINIS._ THE SECOND PART OF Philosophical Furnaces: