Zybak - mercury

Essence.
Mercury is either extracted from a mine or extracted from the ore by fire, similar to how gold and silver are mined. Its ore, when pure, without any admixture of earth or stones, is colored the color of cinnabar, or rather, cinnabar is colored in its color, but does not reach it. Galen and other physicians believe that mercury is mined artificially, like lead oxide, for lead oxide is mined by fire, but then gold must also be mined artificially, like lead oxide.

The substance of mercury stone is similar to cinnabar. Therefore, they think that mercury is extracted from cinnabar in cauldrons coated with clay, under which a fire burns, and is sublimated. But that's not true. On the contrary, cinnabar is obtained from mercury and sulfur, and then mercury can be extracted from their combination, similar to

Nature.
Cold, damp to the second degree.

Actions and properties.
Mercury obtained by sublimation is an astringent.

Cosmetics.
“Killed” mercury with rose oil is a cure for lice and nits.

Wounds and ulcers.
“Killed” mercury with rose oil and medicines against jarab and against malignant ulcers is used to treat jarab.

Tools with joints.
Mercury vapor causes paralysis, shaking and intertwining of organs.

Organs of the head.
Mercury smoke causes hearing loss and, when smoked, creates bad breath.

Organs of the eye.
Mercury smoke makes you blind.

Eruption organs.
Pavel mentions that some people give “killed” mercury to drink when they have intestinal obstruction.

Poisons.
Mercury, subjected to sublimation, kills because it abruptly removes the juices. The effective treatment for this is drinking milk and vomiting.

Galen says he has no experience with this. Some doctors mention that “killed” mercury kills with its sediment, since the sediment corrodes what it encounters, but this statement is not supported by research.

Mercury kills mice, and its smoke makes insects and snakes flee.