Wooden leg

Thus the substance in its original Black Stage is called "Saturn," and as Saturn is the same as Chronos, ot Time, they often give us the symbol of Father Time, wearing a wooden leg, all of which is significant. 

Onr next engraving illustrates a form of strainer which is used when bulky precipitates are required to be filtered, washed and drained. Ferric hydroxide is precipitated in large quantities for tho manufacture of the scale preparations of iron, and it is conveniently separated and washed on a piece of strong calico stretchewooden frame supported on short wooden legs. In this case It should be noted that the precipitate is wanted the filtrate is allowed to run to waste. 

The biggest expenditure of the Alabama legislature the first year after the (civil) war was for wooden legs. 

Ten years later, Winfield Scott was upbraided by James Russell Lowell in the Biglow Papers as a blood-sucker during the Mexican War.4 But the Massachusetts volunteer Birdofreedum Sawin who had lost an arm, a leg, an eye and his mind on the Mexican battlefields, wanted to run for president, meanwhile complaining that his wooden leg could not assimilate the amount of liquor that his body consumed in large quantities. 

Usually the Saturnine mysticism is associated with humidity or wetness, and sometimes with the opus muiierum or labour of the woman that washes clothes and that may be the significance of the woman who is figured beside the infants in each of Cranach s paintings of Melancholy. Also, Saturn is sometimes depicted as a wooden-legged ancient of days with a watering-pot. Here, however, in true alchemical fashion, an ambivalent, or opposed, quality creeps in for at times the idea of aridity or dryness is linked with the complex Saturnine mysticism. This is but one of its many ambivalcncics. 

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