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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	action_n	effect_n	produce_v	2,809	5	8.4444	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64499	The art of chymistry as it is now practiced / written in French by P. Thibaut ... ; and now translated into English by a fellow of the Royal Society.; Cours de chymie. English	Thibaut, P. (Pierre)	1675 (1675)	Wing T892; ESTC R38197	144,949	312

brown Paper in which let it dry at leisure in the shade Obs 1. That the Faeces of both these Reguluses do contain a Sulphureous smoot of Antimony and a fix'd Salt of Niter and Tartar therefore common Water is easily impregnated therewith by ebullition Obs 2. That the Acid which you pour upon the said Lexivium filtrated produces three different effects of which the first is To separate the sulphureous and saltish Smoot from the common Water and so it appears in Curds The second is To give a gross yellow colour to the Curds and Water The third is To make the said Curds and Water stink abominably It produces the first effect because that the Antimonial Sulphur dissolved by a saltish and lexivial dissolvant remains incorporated with him till you pour in a little of a salinous Precipitant which being of a different nature to the dissolvant it happens that these two Salts thus mingled begin to whet one another and by their action and re-re-action cause an ebullition evaporation and dissipation of the sharpest part of the dissolvant So that growing weak he is forced to let go his hold and suffer the body he had seized upon to fall away to the bottom of the Vessel The Acid produces the second effect because all Acids do enliven and enlighten colours now the colour of Sulphur is yellow from whence it comes that this Antimonial Sulphur which in its dissolution was of a dark yellow in its precipitation becomes now of a fine light yellow Now all salinous Spirits do vivifie colours because they are of a detergent nature and do cleanse and take away all the greasie obscure smoot which did darken the lustre of the natural colour as linnen grows white and clean by bucking The Acid produces the third effect because Sulphur when it is heated is naturally stinking now it is heated by the action of the Precipitant and re-action of the Dissolvant This may be observed in the hot waters of Mineral Baths which stink extreamly of Sulphur because a bituminous and a sulphureous spring happening to joyn with a nitrous and vitriolous spring do whet and heat one another and so produce the sulphureous smell Obs 3. That if you pour a good quantity of common VVater upon these Curds that presently they are precipitated into a yellow powder because the said VVater dissolves all the Salts that remained in the said Curds so that then the Antimonial Sulphur being free from all tyes and bonds precipitates it self into a powder of a much livelier colour than that of the Curds because now the Sulphur has thrown off the Salts and appears under its own natural colour of Sulphur Obs 4. That the golden Diaphoretick Sulphur is nothing but a fix'd Sulphur of Antimony drawn from the Faeces of Antimony opened and melted by Niter for the volatil Sulphur of Antimony is so much the more venomous as it is volatil and that which is least volatil is violently vomitive and purgative but this being fix'd is only diaphoretick and opening and for a proof that the said Diaphoretick Sulphur is but a fix'd Sulphur of Antimony do but let the said Faeces of the Regulus of Antimony lye two or three days upon the ground and there will rise of it self without any Artifice a kind of a yellow Moss all over your Faeces which is nothing but the true Sulphur of Antimony purified It s Vse and Vertue It is a powerful Diuretick and Diaphoretick it serves principally to provoke the Monthly Courses of Women being taken in the weight of twenty or thirty Grains either alone or with Saffron Savin and Sene of each ten or twelve Grains infusing them twelve hours in White-wine and so continuing for two or three days together to the same end may be received by a Tunnel the vapour of the Lexivium of the said Faeces before their precipitation into Curds And take notice here that if the said Powder have not been carefully wash'd and sweetned that it may chance to purge and provoke vomit too The Diaphoretick Antimony or the Diaphoretick Mineral TAke one pound of Male Antimony or of the Regule of Antimony or of the Regulus of Mars and four pound of pure Salt-peter powder them very fine and searce your Antimony through a Silk Sieve then mingle them together to the end the Niter may well inflame the Antimony in the mean time set a Camion or great Crucible upon a Round in a great circulatory Fire when your Crucible is red-hot then with a wooden Ladle throw in a Ladle full of your matter cover your Pot to keep in the smoak which being past do as at first and put in another Ladle full so continuing till you have consumed all your matter then continue the Fire taking off the cover from your Crucible till there come out no more vapours which will be in half an hours time after which take off your Crucible for if you did let it stand any longer your matter would become a red Liquor which being cold would settle in a lump like the Liver of Antimony and would have the same Vertues because the excessive heat would have opened its body a-fresh then take out your matter by Ladle-fulls with a Tin Ladle and throw it as hot as you can into a great stone Pan full of cold Water and do not throw it in of a sudden lest some of the matter should sparkle upon your hands and face but dip in your Ladle by little and little when you have done all your matter then wash your hands and with them stir and break the said matter precipitated to the bottom till the Water become as white as Milk and your matter as small as you can make it Separate by Inclination the said milky Water from its Faeces who are a fix'd Niter undissolvable in Water and which you may throw away Let this milky Water stand three or four hours to the end that all your white powder may precipitate to the bottom then separate by Inclination this Water which will be good for the Itch then pour on more Water and do so till it come away insipid Having poured off the last Water there will remain a kind of white Pap which put into a Coffin of white Paper over a glass or earthen Vesica so all the Water will run into the Vesica and there will remain a white lump which you must dry leisurely in the shade upon the bottom of a Sieve Being very dry and in little white brittle pieces you may keep them so or powder them and put them into a glass Vial well stopped If you desire to reduce this Magistery into Trochishs you may do thus When it is yet Pap put it into a glass Tunnel and stop the bottom of it with your finger till your matter be setled then let go your finger and let your matter drop out in drops upon a Marble and so it will be formed into Trochisks dry them in the shade and not in the