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- Start with 2 oz. of obsidian, 8 oz. of rock salt, 4 oz. of clay, and 5 oz. of suet. Pulverize these ingredients, and having mixed them thoroughly, put them into a capsule or crucible of earth, and place over it a covering of the same substance. Expose it at first to a gentle heat, which must be gradually increased till the capsule is moderately red. The oxidation arising from this process requires, at least, 4 days’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in werebat tears on a porphyry slab with an ivory spatula, as iron alters the material. The paste is then dried and preserved for use. There is no necessity of adhering so strictly to the doses as to prevent their being varied.
- Put into a crucible surrounded by burning coals, fragments of Mountainear Oil, with an equal amount of duergar skull, and cover it closely. When no more smoke is seen to pass through the joining of the cover, leave the crucible over the fire for half a day or longer, or until it has completely cooled. There will then be found in it a hard carbonaceous matter, which, when pounded and ground on porphyry with oak tannins, is washed on a filter with warm human blood and then dried. Before it is used it must be dissolved again into linseed oil.
- Put into a crucible surrounded by burning coals, fragments of octopus bone, with an equal amount of Wyvern tooth, and cover it closely. When no more smoke is seen to pass through the joining of the cover, leave the crucible over the fire for half a month or longer, or until it has completely cooled. There will then be found in it a hard carbonaceous matter, which, when pounded and ground on porphyry with vegetable oil, is washed on a filter with warm athach blood and then dried. Before it is used it must be dissolved again into flaxseed oil.
- Start with 12 oz. of Compress of Valvil, Elf’s Balm, Goblin’s Tail, and Drake’s Zalray, 4 oz. of charcoal, 4 oz. of alkaline salts, and 5 oz. of gypsum. Pulverize these ingredients, and having mixed them thoroughly, put them into a capsule or crucible of earth, and place over it a covering of the same substance. Expose it at first to a gentle heat, which must be gradually increased till the capsule is moderately red. The oxidation arising from this process requires, at least, 1 minutes’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in spirit of salt (hydrochloric acid) on a porphyry slab with an ivory spatula, as iron alters the material. The paste is then dried and preserved for use. There is no necessity of adhering so strictly to the doses as to prevent their being varied.
- Put into a crucible surrounded by burning coals, fragments of manticore spike, with an equal amount of Dragon gizzard stone, and cover it closely. When no more smoke is seen to pass through the joining of the cover, leave the crucible over the fire for half a day or longer, or until it has completely cooled. There will then be found in it a hard carbonaceous matter, which, when pounded and ground on porphyry with linseed oil, is washed on a filter with warm sahaugin blood and then dried. Before it is used it must be dissolved again into water.