potions_master @ 2003-05-04 23:46:00

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Soluit se ipsum, coagulat se ipsum, se ipsum impraegnat, mortificat et vivicat.
Notes of no interest or meaning to any of you simpletons:

When one is steaming wormgrass it is absolutely essential that one maintain a constant, consistent temperatue of 130 umlauts, as it causes the wormgrass to dissipate. Then the Discrasia will be taken from the Corpori, and an Aequalitas and good temperature is established, which occurs through a moderate and constant boiling. Why would this happen? Then the splintered milkwort and diced spleen of Crup are enclosed in a very narrow space and are maintained with moderate heat as they begin to abate from their opposed character to unite, until finally they have all the qualities required for muliernovo. For the milkwort, as the first wormgrass, is entirely crude and can per anima be neither mixed nor perpetuated, for neither milkwort will enter the other nor will be united with it either vere or in radice. But should these things be so helped that a true muliernovo will be formed, there must be prepared out of this a new substance which comes out of both, after the purification when one takes on the virtues of the other, and out of several become one, numero et virtute. This is madness. Then, take Vitriol one and a half (alii 2. lb.) Sal armoniac one pound, Arinat (alii Alun) one half pound / Sal niter one and a half pound, Sal gemmae (alii Sal commune) one pound, Alumen crudum (alii Entali) one half pound. These are the species that belong to and should be taken for the Water to dissolve the Antimonium. The solutions put into a glass phial and then into a Balneum Mariae. There is no feasible way in which it could have gone wrong. Thereafter begin to distill very carefully at a gentle heat until all the Spiritus Vini has come over. You then pour the same Spiritum that you have drawn off back onto the dry matter and distill it over again as before. And this pouring on and distilling off again, you continue so often until you see the Spiritum vini ascend and go over the helm in a myriad of colours. I was extremely cautious. Take any herb which is potent in medicine, and either extract the tincture with spirit of wine, or distil in the common way; reserve the distilled water, or tincture, when separated from the feces, for use. Then take the Caput Mortuum, and calcine it to a calx, then grind to powder. I would expect this sort of thing from bloody Potter. That done one takes the water, or tincture, and mixes them together; distil again, and calcine, forcing the moisture over by a retort, in a wary process, calcining and cohobating the spirit on the salt till it attains a perfect whiteness and oily nature, like the finest alkali, commonly called domina domna.

I suspect the milkwort. It did not have the proper consistency, perhaps it had been stored too long. Then again I only procured it a fortnight ago. In which case it would be the wormgrass... or would it...

Damn. Damn.

Back to the cauldron. Disturb me and suffer dire consequences.

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