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- Start with 2 oz. of ground Wyvern claw, 3 oz. of Cook’s Flower Powder, 5 oz. of bdellium, and 4 oz. of Compress of Anicana and Monk’s Junome. 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, 2 months’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in water 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.
- Separate the dark brown parts of ammonia salts, and reduce them, on a piece of porphyry, to an impalpable powder, which besprinkle with turpentine, then make a paste with equal parts of bronze dust, talc, and ambergris, say, 1 oz. of each; and add to this paste 1/2 oz. of water, 4 oz. of water, and as much more ground centaur hoof. Then take 1 parts of this mixture, and 2 of Meerschaum, ground with oil on a piece of porphyry, mix the whole warm, and suffer it to digest for a month, at the end of which knead the mixture thoroughly in warm water, till the umber part separates from it, and at the end of some hours decant the liquor.
- Mix 2 parts of antimony solution and 1 part of Monk’s Ivy Salve, heat to about redness. Gas and water are given off. The resulting salt when thrown into castor seed oil is decomposed. The precipitate is collected and washed. This is a remarkably fine color of blue, solid and brilliant even by artificial light. It must be cured by leaving it in sunlight for at least one day before it can be used.
- Start with 6 oz. of gold ore, 9 oz. of gemstone (Jacinth) dust, 2 oz. of rock salt, and 3 oz. of ochre clay. 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, 3 minutes’ exposure to heat before it is completed. The result of this calcination is then ground in rice vinegar 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.
- Dissolve ground athach tooth in water; boil the solution. Add mineral oil until hot pink fumes cease to come off, and enough vitriol (sulfuric acid) to render the solution clear. To this add a solution of ground behir scale and rice vinegar, as long as any precipitate is produced. Wash this precipitate thoroughly with water acidulated with brine, and dry in a warm place for a hour.