Aurum potabile

The secret of the immortal liquor called alkahest, or ignisaqua / by Eirenaeus Philatethes [pseud.] — The practice of lights, or, An excellent and ancient treatise of the philosophers stone — Praecipiolum, or, The immature-mineral-electrum / by J.B. Van-Helmont — Aurum- potabile, or, The receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie — A treatise of Bernard, Earl of Trevisan, of the philosophers stone — The bosome-book of Sir George Ripley —... 

Anthonie, Francis. "Aurum-potabile or the receit of Dr. Fr. Antonie. Shewing, his way and method, how he made and prepared that most excellent medicine... 

Culpeper, Nicholas. Mr. Culpepper s Treatise of aurum potabile being a description of the three-fold world. Viz., elimentary celestiall intellectuall containing the knowledge necessary to the study of Hermetick philosophy. London , 1657. 

Aurum Potabile. An Admonition. An instruction and proof against all those who falsely persuade and propose both to themselves and to others to prepare for them in a short space of time an Aurum potabile, without the process and... 

Glauber, Johann Rudolf. The complete works of Rudolph Glauber trans Chris. Packe. Aurum potabile. [Richardson (TX)] R.A.M.S., 1983. [1], pp. 860-862... 

In 1746 William Lewis (17L4-1781) edited George Wilson s Com-pleat Course of Chymistry and published it under the title A Course of Practical Chemistry. Wilson s recipe for Aurum potabile, as I pre-... 

Wilson s contemporary Nicolas Lemery, however, more distrustful of alchemists, said that their Aurum potabile, which they crack with so loud, and which they sell at so dear a price, is commonly nothing else but a tincture of some Vegetable or Mineral whose color comes near to that of gold.. . . This same cheat of theirs is none of the least that they use to get by, for in point of Medicins, abundance of people prove extreme credulous. . . (128). Geoffroy the Elder concluded that the most valuable and most precious of all Metals is the most useless in Physick, except when considered as an Antidote to Poverty (129). 

Hauser, Ernst A., Aurum potabile, ibid., 29, 456-8 (Sept, i952). 

AURUM POTABILE — Potable Gold, devoid of corrosive quality, known to very few, and, among these, they who prepare it at the present day do so rather to the destruction than salvation of men. 

When the Sulphur is being steeped with too much water, it then again turns into a yellow oil (Aurum potabile). It resolves and floats on the Mercurio, and for this reason a union cannot occur. The Sun should not float on the Moon We should follow the example of the potter, who slightly moistens the clay, just enough so it becomes cohesive. 

Divided into Five Parts. Whereunto is Added a Description of the Tincture of Gold or the True Aurum Potabile also the First Part of the Mineral Work, Set Forth and Published for the Sakes of Them that are Studious of the Truth. London T. Williams. 

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