Back in the Middle Ages, the aim of this practice was to change base metals into gold
... claiming to have changed gold into mercury by means of 
quicksilver, the... [DOC] [TLE] Alchemy, It's Not Just for the Middle Ages Anymore - Corpus Stavish [PAR] The Middle Ages with old men in some forgotten attic, laboring over bubbling 
flasks filled ... waste of time in the search for a means to turn base metals into 
gold, what was it?