extraction of the more benign and more pure parts may be made so also by like temperate heat of any other thing digestion separates the subtile from the gross what are thick it breaks and attenuates cocts the crude mitâ—igates and edulcorates the unsavoury and so elaborates all things that from things digested a more plentiful Harvest of essence is always to be expected The administration thereof is Learnedly described by Libavius in this manner The matter to be digested is included in a vessel like unto the Stomach every where firmly closed unless when with digestion evaporation is conjoyned as for correction of an Empyreuma or in coagulation and such like for then a small hole in the cover or mouth of the vessel is left and a just time observed that none of the substance perish Whether it be meer juice or Liquor the matter is plain but in Minutal of Herbs and such like either the proper juice is to be left or some analogous humour from without is to be added which notwithstanding is sometimes also in liquors of divers kinds as when Oils are digested with Spirit of Wine c. where is a proneness to putrefaction and in adding the Menstruum care enough can hardly be taken for putrefaction must not be made when we would digest a thing although digestion may be the way to it then Salt is to be added and the vessel so fitted must be placed in a digestory furnace of competent heat and there permitted to stand unto the desired end which is diverse by reason of the multiplicite use of digestion As for example Green Herbs moistned with their own juice from which by distillation their Essence is to be extracted are macerated three days but the dry moistned with Spirit of wine seven days Seeds and Aromaticks half a Moneth Roots for a Moneth if they be dry Minerals for a philosophick moneth A Philosophick Moneth which is forty days or longer according to firmness and the hability of the Menstruum Some are twice macerated sprinkled with Greek-wine as sometimes Aromaticks which being moistned are digested to a dryness afterward pulverisate are the second time macerated by imbibition So solidity and rarity also have their difference of time Distilled Waters set in digestion to the Sun are rectifyed in half a Moneth the vessel being firmly closed and two parts of the vessel ful and the third empty and sometimes a third part of the glass is set in sand which in cold things Artificers command to be done but with great caution Yet hot waters and Oils are rectifyed in cold sand also a third part of the vessel buryed in it c. in a * Vapid or musty moist Cellar for a moneth likewise the other humour to be added must be such as may help digestion without corruption of the substance And here if the humour be alienate it is separated by the aforesaid hole but if otherwise and it be familiar or else alterable into the nature of the digested it â—s left In Dense thiâ—gs it is more sharp and sometimes corrosive as Vinegar Spirit of wine strong wine c. In others gentle as distilled Rain-water Rose-water c. sometimes Oâ—l of the same kind In the interim what are of another Nature and by digestion recede are separated But digestion is not only accompanyed with distillations or extractions but also with rectification coagulation fixation edulcoration of Calxes prepared by Aqua fortis and is called Maceration because it also hath power of penetrating Maceration of opening the compactness of things and of separating impurities Putrefaction Putrefaction is when a mixt body through natural putridness by humour overcoming dryness and external heat operating more strongly than internaly is resolved to an Essence apt to be extracted and segregated from its hetrogeneal parts The way of performing it is thus What is to be putrefied must be duly prepared and so put into a Cucurbit of glass if it either be dry or abound not with humidity sufficient for putrefaction a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a Vehicle or Menstruum so generally from the moneth of putrefaction every Liquor is called which is used for extraction of things if it either be of its own kind or to it analogous or a Water convenient must be poured on which by its own excess may take away the dryness of the mixt body open the mixture draw the out-going Essence to it self and conserve it intire and uncorrupt untill it be all extracted and least the heat with its own humidity should expire the vessel must be sealed with Hermes Seal afterward in Horse-dung or like heat it must be conserved and that heat continued to the end of the time prefixed The property of Putrefaction The property of putrefaction is to change both the colours odours and tasts of things and their old nature being destroyed to generate a new Circulation Circulation is of a Liquor depurated from Elements in a Pelican by various Circumvolutations or Rotations by which the impurities setling downward are removed and so it is converted or exalted to a more excellent State It is thus performed The Liquor to be exalted is included in a Pelican or Circulatory vessel four or five parts thereof remaining empty and so it is placed in Balneum or Dung as deep as the Liquor riseth within the Glass or a little lower so as the superiour empty parts of the vessel may stand in the cold Air that from the bottom and the sides an attenuation may be made by heat but from the upper parts coagulation by cold and so the said vessel must be kept in moderate and continued heat â—ntill the Artist come to his desired end and the fâ—ces totally reside in the bottom In this place it seems not improper to annex Fermentation Fermentation although sometimes by it is not made so conspicuous a segregation of the salubrious from the more gross parts as rather a disposition for extracting the most noble Essence Yet it is the Exaltation of a thing in substance by which digestion mediating the Agent heat prevails and turns the Patient into its own Nature Moreover what are fermented are either Liquid or Solid What are Liquid are such simply as Water and Wine or thick and soft as honey and Sapa Liquids which are simply such if they be also hot * Wine boiled to a consistency per se are fermented as Wine Perry Sider But what are cold as the exprest juices of cold things have need of the addition of some other external as feces of Wine dregs of Beers or Ale Salt or any like acidness for accelerating ebullition and fermentation The thick and soft may be in the following manner fermented For example To ten pound of honey adde fifty pound of water Let them stand in moderate heat for one day natural Hydromel then with gentle fire boil the whole and scum it let a third part exhale or while
the Liquor is hot put in a new-laid-egg which if it shall float above the Liquor is a sign of perfect decoction Then the Liquor removed from the fire must be strained hot through a double Cloath and in a sutable Vessel placed in the Sun two drams of Salt of Tartar or common Salt being added or Ê’j of any acidity put in And so it must boil or ferment for forty days or thereabout untill the Liquor be clear and have an odour like Wine Then must the vessel be closed and the Hydromel reserved in a Cellar for use What are solid and hard as Seeds Wheat Fennel Anise Juniper-berrys Aromaticks c. must be bruised and water be poured on them and their proper Salt or what is to them analogous or some acidity or feces of Beer or Wine so as to a hogs-head of the matter to be fermented a pint of feces be added But what are most hard as Stones must first be calcined and afterward fermented as in the following Treatise touching Corals and Lead shall be spoken Extraction specially so called Extraction specially so called is when from the mixt body the more subtile and more noble parts drawn but by any Menstruum are extracted from the Elementary grosness remaining in the bottom and by distillation or evaporation are coagulated to the consistency of Syrup or Sapa It is thus made When a matter having Tincture is infused in a convenient Menstruum and the vessel close shut placed in digestion Afterward the coloured Menstruum by inclination separated and other fresh Menstruum poured on and the vessel closed again set to digest and the same labour so oft repeated as till the Menstruum be no more tinged Then are all the evacuations filtred circulated and coagulated with the Menstruum to an oleaginous consistency or else sometimes to a dryness according to the nature of the matter or as the intended use shall require CHAP. V. Of Coagulation HEtherto we have spoke of Solution and its Species now follows Coagulation Coagulation Coagulation is another of the principal Operations of the Spagyrick Science wherein soft and Liquid things are forced by privation of humidity from a thin and fluid consistency into a solid This although it almost inseparably adhere to the Species of Solution as Precipitation Amalgamation Sublimation Distillation c. Yet is it peculiarly First by exhalation wherein the humour expires from the coagulable matter Secondly by decoction wherein Liquid things are cocted to a certain solid consistency Thirdly by Congelation as in Cellars when Chrystals by cold are produced Fourthly by Fixation wherein things volatile and flying the fire are taught by use to remain fixed therein which is done either by addition of a fixed Medicine or by mixtures or sublimations Cements and such like according to the nature of the matter CHAP. VI. Of Lutation NOw for order sake it is expedient we should speak of Furnaces Vessels and various Chymical Uutensils as also their divers Regimens of fire But these are rather learned by ocular inspection than by precepts and rules Therefore for brevity sake we shall omit them and only speak a few things touching the Lutaments and Conglutination of Sapient Artificers For building Furnaces Take fat Earth of what colour soever it be and mix and work it together with sand Horse-dung and Salt-water For Coating Retorts Although I am not wont to Coat either Glass or Earthen Retorts whether I distill by sand or by a naked fire or by a close Reverberatory or by fire of suppression Take Potters-clay Horse-dung washt and dry'd flour of Tiles and Scales of Iron mix and work these strongly together with common water Luting of Sapience for closing in the most Subtile Spirits Make Luting of Calx vive and the white of Eggs reduced to water and speedily apply the same because it easily drys For consolidating crackt and broken Glasses Take Bole-armenack Minium Ceruse of each equal parts reduce them to a most subtile powder and temper it with Linseed Oil or liquid Varnish For Luting Glasses together I unto this day have with good success used Hoggs or Ox-bladders for luting an Alembeck with its Cucurbit as well in distillation of waters as of sharp and penetrating Spirits For Luting the nose of the Alembeck with the Recipient Take of Wax â„¥ j. Rosin Colophony of each â„¥ j. melt them together in an earthen pan unto these adde a little Oil Olive stirring them with a stick that the whole may be incorparated then removing the pan from the fire work the whole well together with your hands For Luting Retorts with their Receivers in distillation of sharp Spirits The Luting for coating Retorts work together with Salt water or mix it with Colophony pulverisate and apply it moist The End of the First Book TYROCINIVM CHYMICVM OR CHYMICAL ESSAYS Book the Second THe former Book treats of Solution and Coagulation in general Proemium now in the following Books we intend to treat of the effects of these Operations Although in Specie how the compactness of all mixt bodies are to be opened ought to be declared the same we should have endeavoured to perform had we undertaken to write an entire System and not a Tyrocinium of Chymistry There are effects or as by some they are called Chymical Species of Solution and Coagulation which are either liquid or soft or hard To the liquid may be referr'd the various kinds of Aqua fortis Spirits Vinegar Oils and Liquid Tinctures extracted from Flowers Herbs Roots Rinds Seeds Woods c. To the soft Balsoms various Extracts soft Tinctures To the Hard Salts Flores Magisterys Calxes dry Tinctures of Crocus CHAP. I. Before we come to speak of the forms of Liquors to be prepared which are for the most part made by distillation certain general Rules seem needful to be inserted of which this is The First VEssels in which distillation is made Rules necessary for the Doctrine of distillation must not be of Lead For they infect Liquors with a malignant quality render them vomitive change their native taste and sometimes themselves are corroded by sharp vapours expiring from the matter to be distilled And if Galen and other wise Physicians condemned the waters which flow through Leaden Pipes by reason of the malignity much infesting the internal parts which they thence contract What may be judged of waters distilled in Leaden Vessels Since it is often manifest especially when distilled Liquors of this kind have stood unmoved for certain days that Ceruse of Lead rased off in distillation from the Leaden Alembeck is found in the bottom of the vessel especially if to prove the same you shall pour in a drop or two of Spirit of Vitriol And what is said of Leaden vessels for like reason must be understood of Tin Brass and Iron unless distillation be made in a Brass Vesica where what are distilled soon flow out The Second Glasses by how much the higher they be so much the better
is very beneficial Burning Spirit of Saturn Calx of Saturn or Minium is infused in distilled Vinegar or else the phlegm thereof afterward it is digested for one day natural being often stirred that it Chrystallize not in the bottom of the vessel the Menstruum is poured off and other Menstruum poured on until all the Saltness be abstracted The evacuations are filtred and two parts or thereabout vapoured away the third remaining part set in a cold place to Chrystallize the Chrystals are separated and dissolved in fresh Vinegar filtred and often as above coagulated untill they be sufficiently impregnated with the Salt of Vinegar Armoniack as with proper ferment They are digested for a Moneth with such heat in Baln as they may continually be resolved like Oil into Liquor Afterward they are distilled by Retort in sand observing degrees of fire into a large capacious Receiver annexed which if not very exactly luted on with the Retort so great a fragrancy filling the whole Laboratory will be lost as I doubt not but if the odours of all odorate Vegetables were gathered together and mixed it would far exceed them After distillation when all is cooled you will find a Caput-mortuum very black and of no value From the Liquor come forth you shall separate a yellow Oil supernatant and an Oil Red as bloud setling to the bottom The phlegm by reiterated distillations being separated from the burning water you shall keep the most fragrant spirit of Saturn as a most precious Balsom for various diseases profitably to be exhibited as well internally as externally Moreover a fragrant Spirit of this kind may by Chymical Art be extracted not from Saturn only but also from all other Metals by mediation of that viscous Mineral water which by the benefit of Vulcan only without the addition of any extraneous thing in a most short space of time is prepared Of which Rhodianus in the Treatise of three words saith That fumous aqueous and adustive Spirit is changed into a most noble body and flies not any more from the fire but flows like Oil c. For it receives all the qualities of that Metal with which by the industry of a prudent Artificer it is mixed as also the odour colour and taste with conservation of its vegetate faculty And as Rhasis saith As it is changed it changeth Whence it is apparent how basely ignorant vulgar Misochymists are who atribute odours tasts and other medicinal virtues to vegetables only and esteem Metallicks as destructive to the humane body and worthy to be shunned more than a Dog or Snake CHAP. V. Of Vinegar Distilled Vinegar VInegar without digestion is distilled in the same manner as Spirit of Wine only that the phlegm as in all other sharp things comes forth first and the spirit last Oil and Salt by like reason as is said in Wine are thence extracted Vinegar Alkalisate Upon Vinegar distilled to the consistency of Liquid honey pour so much common water as may stand above it six seven or eight inches digest it in Balneum for two days then set it in a cold place to Chrystalize Remove from them the water by inclination and pour on other until all the oleaginy recede Then must the Chrystals be often dissolved in boiling water and coagulated in a cold place that they may be rendred altogether transparent and on them poured vinegar four times distilled and purged from all its phlegm so as to one pound of Chrystals be added four pound of Vinegar Which being done the whole must be distilled by Retort in sand administring toward the end a fire sufficiently strong The distillation finished calcine the feces and extract a fixed Salt then rectifie the vinegar with its essential animate Salt distilling it with a strong fire from the fixed Salt and repouring what is distilled off upon the remaining Salt until all the Salt shall have passed by Alembeck Then twice distil this vinegar impregnated with this its own Salt in a boiling Baln that being done keep the vinegar thus rendred most potent for calcining the most hard bodies of Stones and Chrystals CHAP. VI. Of Oils OIl exprest from Olives is most properly so called because it participates of every exceeding quality but others are only similitudinarily so named All Oils are between an airy and fiery nature and by how much the more sharp they are so much the more fiery and the loss sharp are said to be the more Aethereal and airy Oil of the Yolks of Eggs. Fry the Yolks broke in a Frying-pan with temperate heat until they wax Red and send forth Oil keeping them continually moving with a stick that they burn not Then express the Oil hot and with a great quantity of distilled water digest it for a Moneth in Baln Some take the Yolks so fryed and inclosing them in cloath moistned Oil of sweet Almonds press out the Oil with with a Press Mathiolus writing to Dioscorides commends this Oil as useful for cleansing and removing roughness of the Skin and clefts of the lips hands and feet and against dolours of Ulcers of the joints and all nervous places It is likewise profitable in scaldings or burnings by fire and in membranes of the Brain malignant Ulcers it cicatriseth and generates hairs Oil of Sage Take a great quantity of Sage and set it in the shade two or three weeks afterward distil it by a Refrigeratory and receive the water which you may rectifie and the Oil. Which is profitable in all diseases of the Nerves in the Paralysie Apoplexy Convulsion and such like Oil of Wax Melt wax with a gentle fire and let it stand so long melted as till from it no more bubles rise Then removing it from the fire mix it with double its own weight of Salt decrepitate and distil it by Retort with gentle heat From one pound of wax you may extract â„¥ xij of Oil. It resolves attenuates penetrates mollifies and discusses wherefore it is profitable in hard imposthums and cold tumors It heals chops in the paps of womens breasts and mitigates the dolours of them Also it consolidates fresh wounds if therewith they be twice a day anointed It is beneficial in burns if mixed with oil of eggs Oil of Turpentine â„ž The thick substance remaining after distillation of spirit of Turpentine and distil it per se by Retort in ashes So when the oil is extracted Colophony will reside in the bottom of the Retort If you shall digest it afterward in Baln as is said of the Oil of yolks of eggs all its empyreuma will be removed It heats softens discusseth opens purges and externally may be used instead of true Balsom in all wounds malignant fetid and incurable Ulcers as Fistula's the Wolf and such like running soars in the Parotides fractures and contractures c. But it doth not always per se if used alone prove so beneficial as when it is conveniently mixed with other appropriates for curing the affects Oil of Cloves â„ž Of Cloves grosly beaten
four pound of fountain water forty pound macerate them in a hot place as long as shall be convenient adde of Tartar â„¥ ij afterward distil it by a brass Vesica with its Refrigeratory and you will have â„¥ viij of oil In the same manner Mace Pepper and the Seeds of Anise and Coriander c. may be distilled It helps in cold diseases of the Stomach Liver Heart and the Diarrhaea from a cold cause it dissipates melancholly spirits and clarifies the gross Externally it heals green wounds and performs the office of true Balsom Oil of Sugar â„ž Of white Sugar grosly beaten â„¥ iiij Aqua vitae â„¥ viij Set fire of the Aqua vitae in a silver or earthen dish glazed into which cast the Sugar continually stirring it with a Spatula until the flame cease then add of Rose-water â„¥ â—j mix them It corroborates and by experience certainly helps those that labour with a cough caused by coldness of the Lungs Oil of Tartar This oil beside the way above delivered in preparing the spirit thereof is also made per deliquium by putting Tartar calcined to a whiteness in a Cellar This oil is an admirable Remedy in the Measels all Ulcers especially venereal in the Tinea Scab and Warts It makes the face smooth and the skin soft or other moist place until it be resolved into oil which must afterward be filtred Also it may be prepared If Tartar after calcination be dissolved in common water filtred and coagulated and the coagulate placed in a cold moist place until it be resolved Oil of Amber Digest a pound of Amber beaten in one pound of white wine Then adde a handful of prepared Salt distil it by Retort observing degrees of fire By distillation twice rectifie it with Salt only This oil was once called Sacred by reason of the admirable virtues it hath being as well exhibited per se as mixt with others in the Epilepsie Appoplexy Melancholly Cramp Vertigo Pest Stone cold defluxions of the Head Palpitations of the Heart deliquiums of the mind difficulty of breathings difficulty of making water difficult Birth Strangulations of the womb retention of the Menses white flux of the Matrix Worms and Fevers A compounded Oil for the Hemicrania â„ž Of Rue one handful boil it in one pound of oil Olive in a new earthen pot for half an hour Then pour it it into a Retort and to it adde of Venice Turpentine â„¥ xij of Colophony â„¥ iiij distil it in sand the clear water which comes forth first being of little value separate Afterward gradually encreasing the fire the oil will come forth which receive apart In the time of the Fit heat a little of it over a fire and with Cotton moistned in it anoint the fore-head and Temples and the dolourous part also ordering the Patient to go to bed A compounded Oil for the Womb. â„ž Of the powder of Rue a little dryed one â—ound Castor â„¥ ij Olibanum Myrrh of each â„¥ iiij â—il of Linum ½ pound digest them four days in â—orse dung or like heat afterward distil them by â—etort in a close Reverberatory With this Liquor â—oint the Womb morning and evening Oil of Tiles Small pieces of Tiles or Flints like Beans make Red hot in a Crucible which so fiery hot cast into old oil Olive close the vessel and leave it for a night Afterward distil the small Stones with the oil by Retort Rectifie the oil by distilling it the second and third time with prepared Salt Oil of Sulphur â„ž Of Sulphur beaten one pound Calx-vive ½ pound Mercurial Salt â„¥ iiij mix them and distil by Retort For wounds and Ulcers it is very profitable Oil of Salt Salt consists of divers parts earthy The nature of Salt aqueous and fiery It s consistency and solidity is from earth its Liquability from water and its biting property from fire It is sharp * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter-sweet cutting subtile penetrative pure fragrant incombustible and preserves other bodys from corruption perspicuous as air by reiterated distillations dissoluble in humid and Liquable in fire like Metals And it is as the Soul in the body according to Pliny who after the Stoicks saith Salt is given to Swines flesh being as it were dead in its own nature instead of a Soul For this in manner of â—erment where it hath power of penetration converts the body with which it is mixed into its own nature by consuming the humour obnoxious to putrefaction Raymund Lully calls the salsuginous Liquor dispersed through the whole body Urinal humour Paracelsus Mummy There are divers ways invented by Artists of extracting the oil of spirit of Salt Some distil Salt decrepitate per se without addition of any external thing But since salt is of easie fusion and when co-united in one it retains the most contumacious spirits after distillation for twenty four hours all being cooled they break the Retort grind the Mass of salt and put it in a new Retort with the distilled Liquor and this they repeat so often as till the whole salt be resolved into oil which in the eighth or ninth distillation is wont to be This Operation is too tedious Others dissolve calcined salt in a Cellar or with Rain-water and impaste it with Potters Clay sifted and thence make smal balls or pellets which when dryed they put into a Retort and so extract the spirit But I am wont thus to prepare it I take of Sea salt calcined two pound and I mix it with six pound of flour of Tiles Red Earth or common Bolus all which I put into a firm and large Retort so as at least a third part may remaâ—n empty and applying a capacious Recipient into which I first pour one pound of distilled water then do I keep it distilling for thirty hours observing the same degrees of fire mentioned in distillation of spirit of Vitriol After separation of the water and phlegm I receive â„¥ xx at least of most sharp o l which must be rectifyed It is endued with most poâ—ent virtues whether it be used internally or externally It renovates the whole Man and preserves â—rom all diseases if it be used in râ—ch Wine or Aqua vitae Mixt with salt of Wormwood and taken either in Wine or water of Wormwood it expels the Dropsie It cures the Epilepsie Jaundies Fevers Stone and Maw-worms By anointing it heals Members disjoynted contracted paralytick and apostemated Also it mitigates dolours of the Gout if mixed with oil of Turpentine or of Wax or Camomil Also it calcines all Metals Stones yea Glass it self the most perfect work of Art Another way Dissolve common salt in humid per se filter it so often as till no feces be left then set it in horse dung for two Moneths afterward with most strong fire distil it and separate the phlegm from the unctuous salsug nous Liquor by B. M. Whatsoever is most obnoxious to corruption if imbibed with this Liquor it remains incorrupt
bunches and redness of the face Flowers of Sulphur These are prepared by mixing equal parts of Sulphur and Colcothar perfectly rubifyed and dryed and so mixed by subliming as shall be taught in sublimation of Antimony but this operation is performed in the space of eight hours nor is so much fire required as in Antimony They must the second time be sublimed with Sugar candid alone that they may be more efficacious in the Asthma and other affects of the Lungs Also this preparation of flowers is made by mixing one pound of the flowers of sulphur with one pound and ½ of flour of Tiles Or by adding to one pound of sulphur of Colcothar and salt decrepitate of each ½ a pound Or else per se they are sublimed without any other addition These flowers do powerfully resist putrefaction and therefore in the Pest the weight of ʒj either in Carduus benedictus Treacle or Syrup of Citron or else in water of Melissa is profitably used as well for Preservation as Curation They also preserve from Fevers and Epilepsie In Lues Venerea they provoke sweat In all diseases needing exsiccation they help and are very beneficial in all Affects of the Lights the Asthma the Cough as well of long continuance as what is newly taken Catarrhs flowing to the breast Pleurisie Cholick Imposthums and Putrefactions of the body Flowers of Antimony Choice Stibium reduced to a subtile powder and put into an earthen pot with a blind head super-pofited in the top of which must be an hole for exhaling the humid spirits and a moveable stoppel fitted to the hole must be sublimed according to Art administring fire gradually for ten or twelve hours for receiving white flores but for Citrine twenty four hours and for the red flores thirty six hours continuing and encreasing the fire Sublimate Mercury ℞ Mercury purged with prepared Salt and Vinegar and passed through a skin Vitriol rubifyed Prepared Salt of each one pound Salt Nitre ℥ iiij Grind and mix them together in a stone Mortar with a little Vinegar so long as until the Mercury no more appear Living All being well mixed put into a cucurbit Luted with an Alembick having a short neck annexed with Recipient adjoyned administring fire by degrees artificially for eight or ten hours The Aqua fortis which first comes forth keep For the second sublimation to one pound of sublimate add of Salt prepared ℥ xij and of Vitriol ℥ iiij If the third time sublime it with salt only A sweet Sublimate ℞ Of Mercury purged as above ℥ vj. Mercury sublimate ℥ viij Grind and mix them together with one pound of Colcothar well and perfectly rubifyed Then sublime the mixture from a convenient vessel placed in sand for the space of five or six hours The second time sublime it with ½ pound of Colcothar The third time per se only Instead of Colcothar prepared Salt may be used if any one be so minded The sublimations ended reduce the mass into a subtile powder which wash with Rose water and dry it Dose from twenty grains to thirty in Lues Venerea Otherwise ℞ Of Mercury sublimate ℥ vj. Silver foliate ℥ ij By grinding mix these together and sublime them in sand The vessel cooled separate the volatile part and grind what is fixed and Crystaline and mix it with the feces residing in the bottom The second and third time subliming as above and in the end washing the sublimate when dryed keep it for use Dose from six grains to eight or ten It purgeth gently Manna of Mercury Dissolve Mercury in Aqua fortis Afterward precipit it in Sea water and from a cucurbit placed in sand distil it toward the end encreasing the fire that the Mercury may be sublimed to the sides of the vessel The vessel cooled and the feces residing in the bottom of the vessel removed gather the sublimate apart And again in the same water dissolve and distil it as above So will you have the Celestial Eagle more white than snow the use whereof is chiefly in Venereal distempers Dose from ten to fifteen grains It purgeth only by the inferiour parts CHAP. XIX Of Magisterys A Magistery is when the mixt body is so prepared by Chymical artifice without extraction as all its homogeneal parts are preserved and deduced to a more noble degree either of substance or quality the exteriours of impurity being segregated Magistery of Tartar ℞ Oil of Tartar made of the resolved and purifyed Salt ℥ iiij Spirit of Vitriol ℥ i. which instil upon the Oil of Tartar into a large glass drop by drop and it will be a most white Coagulum The supernatant humidity remove by gentle heat unto the dryness of salt upon which distil spirit of wine three or four times And so you will have a white fixed Vitriolate Tartar It s use is in all obstructions of the bowels in the Stone Nephritick dolour Jaundies retention of the Menses melancholy hardness of the Spleen Fevers and the Dropsie if conveniently adhibited Dose from ℈ ss to ℈ j. Magistery of Pearls and Corals Dissolve Corals or Pearls beaten smal in water made very sharp with spirit of vitriol Digest it for one night and upon the Solution first filtred inject oil of Tartar drop by drop til it be like milk Then pour upon it common water and digest it and so it will be precipited in bright powder to the bottom of the vessel The water must be separated and other poured on three or four times until all the Acrimony be separated Then dry the powder and keep it for use Margarits in temperament and virtue do very much emulate Gold and therefore do comfort the vital spirits of the heart and remove palpitation of the heart deliquiums of the mind and Vertigo's And ought deservedly to be mixed with all Cordial medicaments They excite Venus resist melancholy dealbate the Teeth comfort the memory and corroborate the young in the womb They dry up all depraved humours in the body and preserve all parts of the humane body from corruption The virtues of Corals are spoken of in the Salt of them Magistery Milk Cream or Butter of Sulphur ℞ Of flowers of Sulphur ℥ j. Salt of Tartar ℥ iij. Mix them and pour upon them of common water three pound digest all in sand for one day natural with such heat as toward the end the water may almost boil afterward filter it hot through brown paper and upon it pour a sufficient quantity of distilled vinegar so the milky Cream of sulphur will by little and little settle to the bottom Separate the Dissolvent by inclination and with frequent ablutions edulcorate it Lastly digest it with Cordial water and dry it And thus will you have a most white Milk or Cream of sulphur Which is the Balsom of the primogeneal humidity It comforts the natural vigour purifies the bloud Diseases of the Lungs as the Asthma Cough and Ptysick it cures In drying up Catarrhs in removing windinesses of the