The Institutes of Akbar 27.5

27.5

and quicksilver has the name of the mother of the bodies, and sulphur, the father of the bodies. Quicksilver is also denominated the spirit, and arsenic and sulphur, the pivots of life. Jast (pewter), which, according to the opinions of some, is Rúh i tútiyá, and resembles lead, is nowhere mentioned in philosophical books, but there is a mine of it in Hindústán, in the territory of Jálóri, which is a dependency of the Súbah of Ajmír. Some practical mechanics are of opinion that the metal called riçáç is a silver in the state of leprosy, and quicksilver a silver in the state of apoplexy; that lead is gold apoplectic and burnt, and bronze crude gold; and that the chemist, like the doctor, can restore these diseased metals by the principles of similarity and opposition.