full of the said Vinegar of Saturn stir it till it be in a consistence of Butter or Balsamum The Use of this Balsam is To cool and asswage pain and extinguish Inflammations to dissipate and ease the Hemorrhoids The Use of the Vinegar of Saturn being dissolved in a small quantity in Water is To appease Inflammations and to serve for Injection in Gonorrhaea's being mingled with a little Water of Barley Of the Oyl of Bricks or the Philosophers Oyl PUt five parts of powdered Bricks and one part of Oyl of Olives into a glass Retort luted and bigger than needs for so much matter place it in a Circulary Fire which by little and little you must bring to the highest degree or Fire of Suppression the Flegm will come first then a stinking thick red Oyl which being rectified will become yellow clearer and less stinking The Use of this Oyl is For Contusions the Sciatica and cold Defluxions The Oyl of yellow Wax POur one part of yellow Wax melted upon five parts of powder'd Bricks make with it little Balls and with them fill a glass Retort luted up to the neck give the same Fire as in the Oyl of Bricks the Flegm will come first then a red stinking Oyl which will congeal into a yellow Butter which being rectified will become clear and white and less stinking The Use of it is the same as of the Oyl of Bricks Of the Extract of Hellebore PUt half a pound of the Roots of black Hellebore and upon it as much Spirit of Wine as will cover it three fingers high into a double Matrass draw the Tincture in a sand-Sand-fire for three or four days evaporate the said Tincture in a glass Cucurbite in a Sand-fire to a consistence of Honey The Use is To purge Melancholy it causes Loathing and Vomiting The Dose is from ten grains to a scruple Of Aqua fortis PUt into a glass Retort common Niter undeflegmated Vitriol in powder and leaving third part of your Vessel empty distil them in a Fire of Reverberation or Suppression giving it by degrees A little Flegm will come first then the Spirit in red vapours The Use is To dissolve Minerals and Metals and to give force and penetration to Dyings or Tinctures Of the Infernal Stone PUt two parts of Aqua fortis to one part of Coppel Silver cut into little pieces in a small Matrass half luted evaporate the Aqua fortis in a Circulary Fire till your matter be dry with a black scum upon it then give a melting fire till there rise no more vapours then take off your Matrass and let your matter cool or else pour it into little moulds The Use is To consume Warts and proud Flesh to cure Cancres the Ulcers of the Mouth and the Gangrene by touching them with this Stone Of the burning Spirit of Honey PUt one pound of Honey and a pint of White Wine into a glass Cucurbite or an earthen one distil them in a sand-Sand-fire till you hear that it boyls no longer and that there remains nothing but a black Honey in the bottom The Use is To dye the Beard and Hair Of the Arcanum Corallinum POur warm Water upon the Red Precipitate of Mercury till at last your Water come away insipid then pour upon it Spirit of Salt in a glass Cucurbite dry it in a Sand-fire that will fix the Mercury then sweeten with cold Water the said Mercury fixed till the Water come away insipid then reverberate it in a Crucible it will become as red as Coral then burn upon it Spirit of VVine two or three times The Use of it is To purge and provoke vomiting gently and cure the Pox. The Dose is from three to six grains Cinnamon-Water PUt four ounces of Cinnamon and a quart of White Wine into a glass or stone Cucurbite fit to it a Head and Receiver of Glass distil them in a Sand-fire there will come at first a clear Water and toward the end a whitish muddy one The Use of the first Water is To fortifie the Stomach and comfort the Heart and to facilitate and further the delivery of Women in Child-bed The second Water may serve in the confection of the Syrup of Cinnamon by infusing the Cinnamon before you dissolve your Sugar in it Of the sweet Sublimate TAke of Corrosive Sublimate and Quicksilver of each a like quantity powder your Sublimate in a white Dish with a Pestle of VVhite-ware stopping your nose close then add to it the Quicksilver and when they are half incorporated together add a little distilled Vinegar to make a wet powder put this mixtion into an unluted Matrass with a straight neck place it in a Circulary Fire after the evaporation of the Vinegar stop the Matrass with a Paper stopple continue your fire till your matter be elevated from the bottom of the Matrass take off your Matrass break it and take out the Sublimate which cleanse every where powder it and put it into a greater Matrass half luted to be sublim'd a second time in the same fire which you must encrease towards the end of the Operation till there remain little or nothing in the bottom of the Matrass Take off your Matrass and break it and keep this Sublimate in a glass Vessel well stop'd It s Use is To purge gently from twenty to forty grains it fluxes in four or five Doses one after another Of the Salt of Saturn PUt as much distilled Vinegar as you please into a glaz'd Pan which set upon a Trevet over a fire of Wood and Coals and add to it as much as you please of powder'd Lytharge stirring it with a wooden Spatula then after it has boyled a little let it cool pour off the distilled Vinegar impregnated and pour on more reiterate the boyling till there remain no Lytharge filter your Dissolutions and evaporate them in a sand-Sand-fire in a glass Cucurbite till your matter become as red as Blood then put it into VVhite-VVare Dishes to congeal into white Crystals as sweet as Sugar and there will remain a red Oyl sweet also which has the same vertue as the Salt It is a Collyrium for the Eyes in Ophthalmies it is good to inject in Gonorrhaea's and it is excellent for redness of the Face or Erysipelases in VVater or Vnguentum Rosatum Of the Diaphoretick Antimony TAke one pound of Mineral Antimony or the Regule of Antimony or Mars four pound of fine Niter powder them and mingle them together and put them in fâ—agration and fusion by spoonfuls in a great Pot of the Crucible Earth heated red-hot in a fire of Suppression covering at each time the Pot continue the fire till the vapours cease then take it off and with a Lattin Ladle pour out the matter gently into an earthen pan full of VVater bruise between your hands the matter thus quenched Pour off the white milky Dissolution within 2 or 3 hours pour off the VVater of that which is precipitated to the bottom and sweeten
s Vse and Vertue It is a most excellent anodynum to appease the Tooth-ach by putting a litle Cotton dipp'd in the said Spirit of Wine to the pain'd Tooth and it is good to help the paines in the Ears by dipping in it some black Wool cut off of the Stones of a black Ram and so put into the Ear. The Aromatick tincture of Cloves PUt of whole Cloves what quantity you please into a Matrass and pour on well rectfied Spirit of Wine to the height of four fingers above your matter make a double Vessel with another small Matrass fitted to the first and well luted together place this vessel in a Sand-heat and there let it stand till the Spirit of Wine be dyed of a red-blackish colour separate by inclination this tincture and keep it in a glass Vial well stopp'd Of this tincture may be made a Syrup by putting to it a sufficient quantity of Sugar and so boyling of it to the consistence of a Syrup or you may make of the said tincture an Extract by evaporating your tincture to the consistence of an Extract The Vse and Vertues of the Tincture Syrup and Extract are to comfort and strengthen the Stomach by consuming cold superfluous humours take away the pains of the Colick it is excellent against all Faintings of the Heart and kills worms in the body The Dosis is a spoonful of the Tincture or Syrup and a Pill of the Extract or else you apply Linnen dipt in the said Tincture upon the Stomach Belly and Navel Cinnamon Water PUt four ounces of whole Cinnamon not powdered two pound of White-wine or Sack into a Glass or Stone Cucurbite place it in a Sand Furnace with a glass Head and Receiver there will be distilled a Water very clear and full of Spirits which from time to time you must take and pour out of your Receiver to the end it be not mingled with the gross flegm which will come at last of a whitish muddy colour Obs 1. That you must not distil Cinnamon-water in a Cucurbite of glazed Earth lest the Cinamon should whet the Spirit of Wine and make it corrode the Lead of the Vernish and so being impregnated with the Saturn alter its own vertue Obs 2. That the Water of Cinnamon is nothing but the purest part of the Wine impregnated with the Volatil Aromatick Salt of Cinamon It s Vse and Vertues It is a good Cordial fortifies the Stomach facilitates and helps the delivery of Women in Child-bed the flegm of this Water is fitter to make the Syrup of Cinnamon than common VVater by infusing in it some new Cinnamon and aftâ—r the straining dissolve in it a sufficient quantity of Sugar and so boyl it up to a Syrup This flegm contains a little Spirit of Wine in it with a little of the Volatil Salt of the first Cinnamon and so is fitter to open penetrate and extract the substance of new Cinnamon than simple common water The Spiritus Ardens or burning Spirit of Honey The sweet Tincture of Honey The stinking or faecid Oyl and Spirit of Honey The stinking Tincture of Honey PUt into a Glass or Stone or glazed Earth Cucurbit one pound of good Honey and two pound of white-wine place your Cucurbite in a Sand-Furnace and set it half way into the Sand fitting to it a glass Head and Receiver give a good Fire and continue it till all be distilled and that you hear nothing boyl in the Body then there will remain a very black thick Honey keep the distilled Liquor which will be of two sorts the first will be clear and transparent and in a small quantity and in this is the burning Spirit of-Honey and the Spirit of Wine The second will be of an Orange colour and more in quantity and contains the flegm of the Wine with the sulphureous Tincture of the Honey Take the Faeces of the said Distillation put them into a Stone Retort well luted and put to them alike quantity of River-pibble-stones calcin'd place your Retort in a Reverberatory Furnace fit to it a great glass Receiver and give your Fire from the first to the last degree for the space of some hours till there come out of the Retort neither vapour nor liquor then you will have in your Receiver a Spirit and stinking Oyl of Honey and there will yet remain some Faeces in your Retort If upon these Faeces you pour Spirit of Wine till it be four or five fingers above your matter you may have by digestion in a Matrass or double Vessel in a Sand-Furnace a foetid Tincture of Honey as red as Claret VVine The Vse and Vertues of all these Tinctures Spirits and Oyls Are to make the Hair grow stiffer and thicker upon Bald-heads The Vinegar of Saturn The Butter or Balsamum of Saturn BOyl some distilled Vinegar in a Brass or Tin Skillet or in a glaz'd Pipkin pour it out boyling hot upon Minium or Seruse or Lytharge of Gold or Silver reduc'd to powder or upon calcin'd Lead let your matter be in a glaz'd Pan and you must have so much Vinegar as may be four or five fingers deep over your matter Stir it a little with a wooden Spatula not with an Iron one for it would black both your Liquor and the Salt to be extracted out of it in an hours time your distilled Vinegar will become sweet and sugar'd and impregnated with the Salt of Saturn To make the Butter or Balsamum of Saturn melt one ounce of white Wax in a little glaz'd Pan then put to it four ounces of Oyl of Olives mingle them well with a wooden Spatula pour this mixtion immediately into a Brass Mortar and upon it a glass full of the Vinegar of Saturn stir them well together with a Brass Pestle till the Oyl and Wax be both impregnated with the Salt of Saturn contain'd in the said Vinegar and that all the Composition be thick and white as the soft Ointment of white Roses It s Vse and Vertues This Vinegar serves to appease inflammations and pains being applied outwardly to any part by Linnen dipp'd in Virgins Milk made of one spoonful of this Vinegar and a glass of Water it may also be useful in Injections in recent and fresh Gonorrhaea's to appease the violence of the pain And observe That this Vinegar pour'd upon any distill'd Water does not whiten it nor make it like Milk The Butter or Balsamum of Saturn serves to cool and appease the ardour of inflammations as well of the Stones as of the Hemorrhoides and other parts as also it produces the same effect in Erisypelases The Plaister of Saturn PUt one pound of Oyl of Olives into a vernish'd Pan add to it four ounces of well powder'd Minium or Mine-Lead and so boyl them together stirring them sometimes with an Iron Spatula till they be reduced to the consistence of a Plaister as black as Jet you may add to it a little Wax to give it a Body It s Vse and Vertues
Draconis all well powdered of each a dragm place your Vessel in a Sand-fire to make your Gums dissolve which will be done in two or three hours time then add to them as much of the dry Flowers of Saint John's Wort as you can take up with your thumb and four fingers the Spirit of Wine though it have dissolved the Gums will yet extract the Balsamick Tincture of the said Flowers next day take off your Vessel out of the Sand and strain all your matter through a Linnen Cloath by pressing it while it is warm then dissolve in it half an ounce of Venice Turpentine by setting your matter for half an hour upon a Sand-fire thus you will have a red unctuous and mucilaginous Balsam Observe That if you had extracted the Tincture of your Flowers before the Tincture of the Gums the Spirit would have been weakned because it would not only have been loaden with the oyly part of them but also with the flegm and therefore would not have been able to dissolve the said Gums It s Vse and Vertues It is a most excellent Balsam for all green Wounds Contusions and for the Sciatica The Corrosive Sublimate YOu must have two Pans of Potters-Earth unglaz'd which must be turned up-side down one upon the other and be so exactly fit as to make but one Pan in this situation and therefore they must have been baked together in a Potters Oven in the uppermost must be a hole big enough to put an Egg into then take Quicksilver and good refin'd Niter deflegmated of each a pound common Salt well decrepitated and green Vitriol well calcin'd into red of each half a pound powder your Salts and incorporate with them your Quicksilver by beating them together in a Marble Mortar with a Wooden Pestle and sprinkling distill'd Vinegar upon them till you have reduced them to a kind of paste put this paste by pieces into the Pan by the hole left in the top and then stop it with Lute so as to leave only a vent of the bigness of a good big Pin place your undermost Pan up to the brim in the Furnace of the Fire of great Reverberation taking care to leave in your Furnace three gaps to give the Fire Air viz. one over against the Fire-room and one of each side for else your Pan being set so deep into the Furnace would go near to suffocate and put out your Fire give at first a strong Fire and when you have brought it to the highest and last degree continue it twelve hours While the Operation lasts you must have a care to keep open the little vent that is left in the Lute you may therefore with a Wire gently open it from time to time that so your matter may send forth freely its most fiery vapours which else would break your Vessel and in the breaking spread such a malignity by their abundance and sudden eruption as would go near to infect you After twelve hours let your Fire go out and when your Pan is cold break the uppermost part of it and you will find a loaf two or three fingers thick sticking to the sides of the lowermost part as white as Snow icy in its circumference and crystalliz'd in its middle Obs 1. That in France we do not make much of this Sublimate because we can have it six times cheaper from Venice where common Salt Mercury and Vitriol are very cheap because they are not far from the Mines and near the Sea The Hollanders do also bring some to Paris but they sophisticate it commonly with white Arsenick We have taught to discern this cheat in the Chapter of the dulcified Sublimate Obs 2. That the Corrosive Sublimate is nothing but Quicksilver calcin'd and incorporated with Niter and the Spirits of common Salt and Vitriol by the Fire which sublimes all these Volatils into one lump The common Salt and Vitriol remain in the bottom of the lowermost Pan almost as heavy as when they were put in because that they are naturally fix'd the fix'd Substance of the common Salt and deflegmated Vitriol serve to hinder the melting of the Niter and the Spirits of these two serve to corrode the Mercury and make it strongly corrosive by the conjunction of all these Salts together It s Vse and Vertues 'T is the strongest Corrosive of all it serves to make the dulcified Mercury the Emetick Powder the Phagedenick Water and that Unguent which for the violence of its inflaming and burning Operation is called The Devil's Vnguent It is the poison we call Rats-bane and kills Rats and Mice by burning their entrals as if they had live coals in them producing the same effect in all Animals and men too if they swallow any of it The Antidote of it is not any Theriaca or Victan or other Cordial there is nothing but Water in abundance that by humecting and wetting the Salts is able to take away their Acrimony though Oyl be very good too for Oyl and Grease because they cannot dissolve and melt these Salts make them at least remain without force upon those parts which are oyled or greased as we may see in the operation of Cauteries applied to a very fat man for as soon as they have corroded the skin they are fain to stay there and shew their caustick vertue no further because they meet with the Panicula Carnosa or Adiposa which stays their action there is nothing but a waterish humidity which by melting of these Salts gives them leave to work The Balsam of Sulphur drawn by the Oyly Spirit of Turpentine PUt into a Matrass four ounces of Flowers of Brimstone or else Brimstone powder'd very fine and one pound of Spirit of Turpentine incorporated with its Oyl such as the Merchants send from Provence to Paris let your Matrass be but half full place it in a sand-Sand-fire and fit to it another Matrass and so make a double Vessel In this heat the Spirit will begin to simper and presently after the Brimstone will melt and dye the Spirit of a fine colour as red as a Pomegranate govern your Fire so as to hinder your Spirit from boyling in one or two hours the Operation will be done Then take off your Vessel and pour out your Dissolution while it is warm into a stone Vessel or of glaz'd Earth in it the Sulphur as it grows cold will go to the bottom and congeal in a yellow lump and the Tincture will remain above when your Tincture is cold and clear by the falling down of the Brimstone pour it off by inclination and keep it in a glass Vial. Obs 1. That this Spirit of Turpentine has drawn not only the red Tincture but also the ill smell of the Brimstone so as to lose its own odour Obs 2. That the Brimstone which you find after the Operation done weighs almost as much as when you put it in having communicated to the Spirit of Turpentine little besides the colour and smell of Brimstone It s
hindring your whites of Eggs from coming away with the Tincture into the stone Pan you receive it in then evaporate it gently in a Sand-Furnace to the consistence of an Extract a stone Pan is fitter than a glazed Earthen one because the stone one is much thinner in the bottom and every where than a glazed one and may therefore be sooner penetrated by a sand heat It s Vse and Vertues This extract is called the â—ermans Treacle because that in Germany they â—se it frequently as we do here Treacle and it is â—ndeed a great preservative against the Plague â—nd a rare Antidote against poisons it strengthens the stomach the dose is from a scruple to two dragms All extracts of Berries Leaves and Flowers are made the same way The Laudanum TAke four ounces of good Opium and if it be soft cut it into pieces with a Knife or if it be dry powder it in a Mortar and have a care that the powder rising do not at last work upon you the same effect that a double Dose of pills of Opium would do Put this Opium without any other preparation into a Matrass and pour upon it Spirit of Wine till it be four or five fingers above your matter and that your Matrass have a third part empty lest your menstruum in stead of extracting the Tincture should evaporate and be gone Place your Vessel in a sand Furnace up to half the belly in the sand fit to it another little Matrass and so form a double Vessel lute them well together with Paper and Glew that so nothing may exhale make a good fire and let your Vessel stand a whole day the next day separate your Tincture from its Faeces and pour new Spirit of Wine to them which also must stand a day and then be poured off then for a third time put new Spirit of Wine to extract the remainder of the Tincture which done put all your Tinctures together into a stone Pan. Place this Pan either in a sand Furnace or in a Balneum Mariae if it happen that you are then distilling of Spirit of Wine in the Brass Vesica you may place your Pan upon the Moors-head which may serve in stead of a Balneum Mariae evaporate gently your Tinctures to the consistence of an extract If you desire to draw off most of your Spirit of Wine put your Tinctures at first into a glass Cucurbit and distil them in a Sand-fire till they begin to grow thick and then pour them into a stone Pan and evaporate them as hath been said Obs 1. That all those preparations practised upon Opium ordinarily do rather cleanse it and purifie it from its Faeces than free it from any venomous substance or malignous quality therefore if you take of that Opium which is in little even Cakes neatly environed with Leaves you may give it without any other preparation at all only beat it warm in a Mortar and so form Pills of it Obs 2. That in the belief that most have that the thin Volatil substance of Opium is that which causes its malignity they have studied all ways imaginable whereby to devest it of this Volatil substance as by drying it over the fire and so causing this Sulphureous subtile substance to evaporate but it is not against reason to believe that in this exsiccation or drying the flegm alone which is innocent enough is the thing exhal'd and that Opium in its whole substance is of a subtle Volatil Narcotick nature and in that consists its Malignity Obs 3. That we use Spirit of Wine for a dissolvant because it draws much more perfectly this Tincture than any other liquor would because that Opium is of a thick glutinous juicy nature and Spirit of Wine is the best Dissolver of all Gums besides the design being to benumb the senses the Spirit of Wine which has the same faculty is most proper and being a cordial is a rare corrective of that malignity which we suppose in Opium Some are of opinion that distilled Vinegar would be a fitter menstruum because they pretend by it to fix a little the Volatil nature of the Opium and hinder the fumes which make it to arise to the head To which I answer with this distinction That if the design be to appease the Head-ach and correct Insomniums then Laudanum prepared with Spirit of Wine is best but if it be to stop a Diarrhaea or Dysentery or asswage the pains of the Colick then Laudanum prepared with Vinegar is fittest because the Spirit of Wine carries one to the Head and the Vinegar keeps the other down in the Belly but we must have one of these menstruums if we will extract the Tincture of Opium well for pure Vinegar smells too much of Vinegar common Water is not strong enough because of the viscosity of the Opium which requires a penetrating dissolvant Obs 4. That if your Opium be very clean and without Ordure it will turn almost all of it into Tincture and leave but very few Faeces and so the extract of Opium is but a purified Opium delivered from all mixture of other things and devested of some of its own indissolvable terrestreity Obs 5. That in Authors you meet with an infinite number of descriptions of Laudanum and all the variety is produced from nothing but from a different mixtion of ingredients but certainly the best Laudanum is the simplest and such as we have described it Saffron Pearls Corral Treacle Musk Ambergrease and other ingredients which are added serving for nothing but to take up more room and often are quite opposite and contrary to the design intended by giving Opium so far they are from augmenting the vertue of it It s Vse and Vertues are to make those sleep that are troubled with continual waking and intolerable Insomniums not to be overcome by ordinary Somniferous remedies to asswage great head-ach to thicken and soften all sharp humours flowing to the breast to stay loosnesses dysenteries and help pains in bilious colicks and dysenteries But have a care you give not Laudanum while the body is full and has not been evacuated sufficiently by Blood-letting Clysters and a moderate diet nor when there is a copious Fluxion upon the breast caused by a thick humour nor when there is pain and stopping of breath nor when the patient is very weak and has but little natural heat The dose is from one grain to two or three or four at most and you must never give the highest dose without having given the first and second without effect it is ordinarily given in form of a little Pill The Tincture of Roses PUt into a Brass Pot or into an earthen glazed Pan four pound or two quarts of water set it upon a Furnace in a naked fire till it begin to simper and then put into it two or three spoonfuls of Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol and stir it with a woodden Spatula to the bottom then throw into it a good handful
purest part of the Antimony Obs 2. That the Flowers of Antimony are of three colours the white do contain nothing of the venomous Sulphur of Antimony and are therefore coloured of the colour of the Volatil Salt of Antimony the yellow do contain a little of the said Sulphur and are therefore somewhat tinged but the red do abound with the said Sulphur and are therefore highly dyed Obs 3. That we fit divers Pots one upon another to receive all these Flowers of different colours the white in the first the yellow in the second and the red in the last we leave a hole in the uppermost Pot to give the vapours a little air but it is not so big as in the lowermost pots lest the finest flower should be lost through so wide a hole Obs 4. That we give at first a great fire and continue it forty eight hours to keep always the Regule or Antimony infusion and effumation else it would yield no flowers Obs 5. That you must not use stone pots for the violence of the fire would break them nor Earthen glazed pots of potters earth because that the glazing would melt and fix the Antimony but you must use strong pots of potters earth unglazed Obs 6. That the Flowers of Antimony are nothing but the Regulus of Antimony or the purest part of the Antimony made Volatil and sublimed into dry vapours by the strength of the fire and so converted into a fine impalpable powder called Flowers The white contain only a part of the body of the Regulus and a good deal of the Volatil Salt of Antimony the yellow contain a part of the body of the Regulus and little of the Volatil Salt and so do the red with a good deal of the malignant Sulphur of Antimony It s Vse and Vertues The white Flowers provoke sweat and sometimes vomiting and are very good against pestilential Feavers the yellow do provoke vomiting with violence and the red much more and with convulsions therefore there is no use of them only they enter in the composition of the Plaster of Paracelsus or of some others as you shall find in Authors the dose is from three to seven grains The Flowers of Brimstone PUt a great Earthen glazed Cucurbit into a small Reverberatory Furnace so that between it and the Furnace sides there be the thickness of a Crown piece left empty and the body of your Cucurbit must not be above half sunk into the Laboratory Then stop with Lute all the upper circumference left empty betwixt the Furnace and your Vessel leaving only three little holes equally distant from one another to give the fire vent Then line the neck of your Cucurbit without with slices of Paper covered with starch as if it were to fit a head to it and in stead of a head fit an Earthen glazed pan not turn'd upside down but having a hole in its bottom of such a capacity as to receive the neck of the Cucurbit Lute them well together with slices of Paper starched both above and under the junction of the Pan with the neck of the Cucurbit fill this Cucurbit with yellow Brimstone in powder till it be half full and then fit to this earthen pan another of the same metal which must be whole and turned upside down upon the first so as its bottom be half a foot distant from the neck of the Cucurbit there must be in the bottom of this second Pan a little vent hole of the bigness of the point of a bodkin to give air to the vapours of your Brimstone which else would make your Pan fly about your ears give your fire by degrees and continue a pretty good fire till there come no more fumes out of the little hole which for a pound of Brimstone will happen in three quarters of an hours time Then put out your fire and let your Vessels cool when they are cold separate them one from the other they will be lin'd with a thick crust yellow and light and which being bruised between your fingers is easily reduced to an impalpable powder scrape off this crust with a knife and you have the Flowers of Brimstone out of each pound you will have twelves ounces of Flowers by this method Obs 1. That we use here yellow Brimstone that is in great rowls because that it is the purest and best separated from its Mineral Earth and therefore will yield more and fairer Flowers the green or gray Brimstone show by their colour that they are not so pure and by consequent not so fit for this Operation Obs 2. That we use here a glazed Pan as well because that Brimstone has not force enough to corrode the glazing as because that being glazed the Pans are smoother and so it is easier to scrape off your Flowers a stone Cucurbit would break and you would hardly scrape off all your Flowers in a stone Pan whose surface is uneven Obs 3. That a great Reverberatory fire is not necessary in this Operation because that the Brimstone is easily melted and when melted is easily raised in Flowers Obs 4. That the Flowers of Brimstone are nothing but Brimstone purified from its Faeces and sublim'd in dry vapours by the means of the fire which has melted it then converted into impalpable yellow Flowers in the sublimatory Vessels It s Vse and Vertues These Flowers have the same but a more exalted Vertue than ordinary Brimstone because of the Thinness and Tenuity of their substance interiourly they are used for the same end as the Magistery or Milk of Brimstone and exteriourly they are used in Unguents for the Itch and Scab and for the Farcy in Horses incorporating it with Oyl of Olives and fresh Butter But you must be careful to use first general remedies for Brimstone is so drying that it presently dries up not only the Itch and Scab but also so parches the skin as to make it incapable of receiving the impurities of the body and of being transpirable from which are caused many violent diseases if the said impurities be not emptied by general remedies both before and after the use of Brimstone The Rosin or Magistery of Jalap TAke as much Jalap as you please well cleansed from its ordures and dried in the Sun then powdered and put into a Matrass Pour upon it good Spirit of Wine four or five fingers above your Matter and let your Matrass have a third part empty fit to it another Matrass to make a double vessel place it in a sand fire and there let it stand twelve hours in which time your spirit will acquire a Tincture as red as Claret Wine pour off that and pour on more spirit to the Faeces in twelve hours it will have extracted a new Tincture which pour off also If you will you may pour on more spirit but if your second Tincture be not high colour'd it will not be worth your pains and cost to pour on more Spirit of Wine gather together your
Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression till your pot be full then encrease your fire stirring your matter from time to time with a stick which you must not put to the bottom till all be melted then take off your pot and when it is cold break it you will find in the bottom the Regulus and the Faeces on the top Of it is made Vinum Emeticum everlasting Pills and Cups and the Diaphoretick its Faeces serves to make the Golden Sulphur Diaphoretick Of the Liver of Antimony of which is made the Crocus Metallorum MIngle one pound of Male or Female Antimony with half a pound of common Niter powdered put them by spoonfuls into a Crucible or pot of the same Earth heated red-hot in a Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression covering your pot at each spoonful then encrease your fire and stir incessantly your matter with a stick till it be in Fusion take off your pot and pour into a Mortar the melted Liquor retaining the Faeces from going in with it your matter being cold is called Liver of Antimony and being powdered is called The Saffron of Metals or Crocus Metallorum Of it is made the Vinum Emeticum The Dose is one ounce in a pint of VVine of which take one or two ounces inwardly and four or five ounces in a Clyster The Spirit and Oyl of Guaiacum FIll up to the neck a great earthen Retort well luted with shavings or little pieces of the VVood of Guiacum place it in a small Reverberatory Furnace fitting to it a stone Receiver or a glass one and covering your Furnace with an earthen Pan that has a hole in the bottom then by a moderate heat of twelve sixteen or twenty hours you will have the Spirit and Oyl together which separate either by a glass Tunnel or by a coffin of brown Paper wet with ordinary VVater Of the Ashes or Coals re-calcin'd you may make a Lixivium and extract the Salt This Oyl is good for old Ulcers for the Gangrene and Rot and two or three drops in Cinnamon-water is good for the Colick the Spirit is good for Burnings Ulcers and for the Pox in a Decoction of Guaiacum Crystal Mineral THrow fine Niter powdered into a Pot set in a Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression and let it be quite full at first being melted throw into it four or five times at each time a spoonful of powder'd Brimstone then pour out by little and little your melted Niter into a Brass Kettle shaking the Kettle and dipping it into cold Water dissolve your Niter thus prepar'd in warm Water filter it through a brown Paper and evaporate it to a Pellicule then setting it cool you will have fair Crystals which are the true Crystal Mineral or Sal Prunellae It cools opens and resists Corruption taken inwardly from a scruple to a dragm and in a Clyster from a dragm to half an ounce The Spirit and Oyl of Box ARe made as the Spirit and Oyl of Guaiacum only this Wood yields much Spirit but little Oyl the Oyl is good for the putrefaction and pain of the Teeth for Contusions and Ulcers Of the Regulus of Mars POwder and mingle two pounds of Male Antimony with one pound of Tartar and one of common Niter six ounces of filings of Steel and two ounces of powder'd Charcoal It is made as the Regulus of Antimony and there results of it a Regulus containing seven ounces of Antimony with the six ounces of filings It purges by stool and vomit in powder or in vessel with Wine and serves to make an excellent Diaphoretick which never provokes vomit The Spirit of Salt TAke one part of common Salt and five of Potters Earth dried and powdered fill with it a glass Retort well luted place it in a Furnace of a great Reverberatory Fire give the fire by degrees and continue the last degree for twenty hours It s vertue is Diuretick it drives away Gravel and breaks little britle Stones whitens the Teeth and preserves from the Plague and all Corruption Of the Red Precipitate of Mercury PUt four ounces of Mercury and six ounces of Aqua fortis in a Matrass of glass luted up to half its Body place it in a Furnace of a moderate Circulary Fire till the Aqua fortis be evaporated then give a Fire of Suppression till there rise a yellow vapour upon the brim of the Matrass then take it off and when cold break your Vessel and you will find in the bottom a Red Precipitate of an Orange colour Of Spirit of Niter PUt one part of fine Niter to four parts of dried Potters-Earth fill a glass Retort well luted then distil it in a great Reverberatory Fire and have a care of its vapours in distilling it It s Vse and Vertues Are to dissolve Mercury Camphire and Metals and is better for interior Remedies than Aqua fortis Of Turbith Mineral PUt two ounces of Mercury and three ounces of Spirit of Niter into a glass Retort luted up to half its neck place it in a Furnace of a Circulary fire giving a gentle fire till the Mercury be dissolved and dried then take off your vessel and let it cool then pour upon it one ounce of Oyl or Spirit of Sulphur and evaporate it by the same fire reiterating this three or four times then burn upon it Spirit of Wine break your Vessel and you will have a white lump which powder and wash in warm Water till the Water come away insipid Dry this matter in a Sand-fire and burn upon it Spirit of Wine three or four times it will make your Mercury as yellow as Gold then give it a melting fire which it will endure very well without losing any thing because of the fixedness it has acquired by the Spirit of Sulphur Of the white Precipitate PUt eight ounces of Mercury and one pound of Aqua fortis into an ample glass Retort with a long neck shake your vessel and heat it a little upon warm Ashes till your Mercury be dissolved then pour your Dissolution into a glass Bell and pour upon it a quart of Sea-water to precipitate your Mercury separate your Sea-water and sweeten your Precipitate with common Water then dry it in a coffin of white Paper It is used with Pomatum to rub Ring-worms withall It s internal Use is To purge in the Pox from three to eight grains Of the golden Diaphoretick Sulphur BOyl in common Water in a Kettle the Faeces of Regule of Antimony or Regule of Mars filter their Lixivium through a brown Paper pour two or three spoonfuls of Vinegar or of some acid Spirit upon all this Lixivium it will curdle grow yellow and stink then pouring Water upon it precipitate your Tincture thus curdled into a powder of the colour of Saffron which you must edulcorate or sweeten to take away the ill smell then dry it in a coffin of Paper It s Vse is to provoke the Monthly Courses from eight to twelve
grains by whetting its vertue with twice or thrice as much of Sena Saffron and Savin or by receiving the vapour of the Lixivium in sitting over a Close-stool Of the Oyl of Eggs. PUt twenty or thirty Eggs into a Kettle of cold Water boyl it till your Eggs be hard take out the hard Yolks and put them into a Frying-pan over a flaming fire bruise them and turn them often with an iron Ladle till they be almost all turn'd into Oyl which separate from its Faeces while it is warm you may rectifie it if you please in a glass Retort in a Circulary Fire or rather in a Sand-fire which will make it yellow and incapable of congealing It s Vse is That it is a very good Balsam for green Wounds Burnings Ruptures or falling of the Guts into the Scrotum and for Wounds in the Nerves Ligaments and Membranes which are uncovered Of the Oyl and Spirit of Ash-wood THey are drawn as the Spirit and Oyl of Box and this wood yields but very little Oyl It s Vertue is For pains in the Kidneys Spleen Teeth and for the rotting of Bones applied outwardly Of distilled Vinegar TAke a glass stone or glaz'd earthen Cucurbite fill it half full with good Vinegar place it in a Sand-heat fitting to it its Head and Receiver give at first a great fire stop the Registers and Doors of your Ash-hole and Fire-room continuing your fire till you have drawn off within half a pint all the Vinegar you put in you may rectifie it upon its Faeces and separate the Flegm which will come first from the acid Spirit which will come last half in half or thereabouts It s Vse is To dissolve Pearls Corals Fish-shels to make of them Magisteries and to extract the Salt of Metals Oyl of Camphire PUt into a Matrass or Vial two ounces of Camphire and four ounces of Spirit of Niter shake them together and let them stand till the Camphire be dissolved separate by a glass Tunnel the Oyl which will swim upon the Spirit It s Vse is To moderate the pains of the Nerves that are naked and uncovered in a Wound and to exfoliate rotten Bones Of Spirit of Wine campherized PUt as much Camphire as you please into a Matrass and pour to it as much Spirit of Wine as shall be three or four fingers above it fit to it another Matrass and make a double Vessel place it in a Sand-heat till your Camphire be dissolved The Vse is For the Tooth-ach and for Deafness applied to the Tooth in a little Cotton and put into the hollow of the Ear with a little Wool cut off from the Stones of a black Ram. Of the Aromatick Tincture of Cloves PUt into a Matrass as many Cloves as you please and pour upon them Spirit of Wine to the height of three or four fingers above the matter place it in a Sand-heat till the Spirit be died of a blackish red separate your Tincture and make of it either an Extract or a Syrup The Vse of the Tincture Is to fortifie the Stomach and Heart ease the pains of the Colick kill VVorms taken inwardly and applied outwardly inform of an Epithema The calcination of Lead TAke Lead beaten into thin plates and Brimstone powder'd of each equal parts make Stratum superstratum in a glaz'd earthen Pot place it in a Circulary Fire and of Suppression till your inflamed and burning Sulphur be consumed take it off from the fire and stir it with an Iron Rod then powder it and searce it It s Vse is To dry up old Ulcers and Scabs being incorporated with Grease or Diapompholix and also from it is drawn the Sugar of Saturn The stinking Oyl of Cloves PUt of Cloves what quantity you will into a glass Retort luted place it in a Circulary Fire there will come into the glass Receiver white fumes which will congeal into a black Oyl stinking and caustick It serves to exfoliate rotten Bones it cures the Gangrene and pocky Ulcers Of the Oyl and Butter of Antimony of which is made the Mercury of Life or Emetick Powder or of Algarot Of the Cinnaber of Antimony Of Mercury and Antimony revived PUt Corrosive Sublimate and Mineral Antimony in Powder of each four ounces into a glass Retort luted leaving a gap to look in at place it in a small Circulary Fire till all the Oyl be distilled into a glass Receiver and that you see in the bottom of your Retort a bright melted lump then give a fire of Suppression till your Retort begin to grow soft and be half melted break it there will come out of the neck Mercury half quick and revived and half in a blackish powder In the entry of the neck you will find a greyish Crust and in the bottom a lump of Antimony reviv'd and made crude again Then put your Oyl of Antimony which being congealed is called Butter of Antimony into a little Retort to be rectified once only in a small Circulary Fire throw it into some Water which being impregnated with the Mercurial Salts is called the Philosophical Vinegar pour off this acid Water and sweeten your white powder with other water till it come away insipid This powder is called Mercury of Life The use of the Emetick powder is To cause vomiting and to purge gently in intermittent Feavers and Dropsies the Philosophick Water is good for the Itch Scabs Ring-worms and Lice the Cinnaber of Antimony is a Sudorifick for the Pox. Of the Oyl and Tincture of Karabe FIll a glass Retort luted up to the neck with Karabe powdered pour upon it Spirit of Wine up to the neck too place it in a Circulary Fire and fit to it a large glass Receiver give your fire by degrees till you come to a fire of Suppression and that there appears no more vapours in the Receiver separate the Oyl that goes to the bottom from the Spirit that swims on the top The Use of the Tincture of Karabe is For the Palsie the Sciatica the cold Gout all cold Fluxions and bruises of the Nerves The Oyl is good against the suffocations of the Mother and old Wounds Of the Oyl of Jet FIll a Retort of glass well luted with Jet in pieces up to the neck place it in a Circulary Fire and fit to it a glass Receiver giving the fire by degrees as in the Oyl of Karabe and separate the Oyl from the Spirit that will swim on the top The Use of the Oyl is for the Suffocation or Fits of the Mother for all Contusions and Bruises Of the Butter Cream or Nutritum of Saturn PUt into an earthen glaz'd Pan Minium or Lytharge or Ceruse or calcin'd Lead as much as you please pour upon it boyled distill'd Vinegar five or six fingers above the matter stir it with a wooden Spatula an hour after melt an ounce of white Wax in an earthen glaz'd Pan and add to it four ounces of Oyl pour this mixtion into a Mortar and upon it a glass
fourth 4. When you have augmented the fire by degrees and are come to the last which you maintain the space of some hours as it is done in the distillation of the black Oyl of Vitriol or Colcothar The Spirit of Salt TAke a quantity of Potters-Earth cut it into slices of the length breadth and thickness of a finger and set them in order upon a Grid-iron which you shall set upon red Coals in a hot Oven after the bread is drawn when they are dry on one side turn them on the other then take them out and powder them in a Mortar and keep this Earth thus dried and powdered as well for this Operation as for divers others Mingle five parts of this Earth thus prepared with one part of common Salt beaten to powder but not decrepitated with this matter fill a Glass-Retort of an ordinary size which must be luted up to half the neck set it in a close Reverberatory and fit it to a large and capacious Glass-Receiver Give your fire by degrees coming as soon as you can to the last degree which continue twenty four hours or till your Recipient seem cold though the Retort be violently hot from whence you may infer that your matter hath sent out all its Spirits out of one pound of Salt by this method you 'll draw nine or ten ounces of Spirits Observe 1. This Earth is given to the Salt as an intermedium to hinder its fusion for Salt melts in a great fire and being once melted becomes so fix as there is no raising of its Spirits to distil them Observe 2. That we rather make use of a Glass than of an Earthen Retort because the Spirits of Salt being very acid and something corrosive might so penetrate the Earth of the Retort as to lose something of their virtue and dull their activity therefore you must also keep your Spirit of Salt in Glass not in Earthen Vessels Observe 3. That the Salt must not be decrepitated that is separated from its Phlegm nor the Clay absolutely dried or heat red in the fire for it is necessary that there should remain some watrish humidity in both to the end that this phlegm coming first in distillation may help the acid Spirits and be as a Vehicle to them otherwise were your fire never so violent if there were no Phlegm you would never obtain any acid Spirits Observe 4. That your Retort must be filled up to the neck because the Spirits in their first rising and separating themselves from their grosser parts would if there were any Vacuum presently re-impregnate themselves and be so fix'd as that no power of fire would be able to raise them again and make them Volatil whereas the Vapours raised meeting with no empty room in the Retort are not able to condense there but by the fire are forced into the Recipient into which they enter in form of a white Vapour which by little and little cools and condenses and at last dissolves into a Liquor white and clear as water Observe 5. That that Phlegm which first comes is little in quantity and if you will have your Spirit strong and pure you may deflegmate and rectifie it in a sand-heat It s vertue and use is It resists all corruption taken interiourly and outwardly applied and for this reason in venomous and malign Feavers we mingle three or four drops of it with a Cordial Julip and for a preservation against the Plague we put a spoonful of it into a quart of Oxycrate and so rub the body all over before a good fire It whitens the Teeth admirably being mingled with a little Water or some syrup it 's a powerful diuretick against suppressions of Urine caused by the oppilation of the conducts thorow which it should pass it drives the Gravel out of the Kidneys and Bladder and so is specifick to break the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder that if you put a Stone cut out of a humane Bladder into a quantity of Spirit of Salt it will dissolve immediately without fire or any addition of any thing though it were never so hard it is used to dissolve Gold and make it Potable if you do whet its Vertue by putting to it a little Salt decrepitated before you put your Gold in it alone it dissolves Pearls and Coral The marks whereby you may know and distinguish this Spirit from others are these 1. That it is clear and white drawing to a citrine transparent colour 2. Being newly made it is Vaporous and seizes the nose presently but without stink and being old it has no odour at all 3. That upon your tongue it is of an acid biting faltish taste 4. It neither corrodes nor tinges of any colour its cork-stopple Spirit of Niter MIngle one part of fine and well purified Niter with four or five parts of Potters Earth prepared as in the Chapter of Spirit of Salt fill with this a Glass-Retort well luted up to its neck place it in a close Reverberatory Furnace fitting to it a large and capacious Recipient give your fire by degrees till you come to the highest which continue twenty four hours The Phlegm will come first and in small quantity and also with a little Spirit which will appear in the Recipient in form of a White Vapour a little after the pure Spirit will come appearing in form of red Vapours which will make your Recipient bright and red as a Ruby Out of one pound of Niter thus distilled you may have four ounces of Spirit Obs 1. That you must be very exact in luting your Retort close with your Recipient lest many of your Vapours should exhale and however the Artist must have a care of coming too near at that time lest the Sulphureous and Malign Vapours of the Niter which our Authors call the flying Dragon should offend his Brain and Nerves and make him Paralytick by the fusion and resolution of the humours of the Brain which at that time borrowing from the subtle Nitrous Vapours an extraordinary thinness and penetration would easily insinuate themselves into the nerves and by their abundance cause a total Obstruction Obs 2. That we give the Potters Earth to Niter as we do to Salt to hinder its fusion now Niter is very easily melted because it is the Body which helps other Bodies to be so too by reason of its great thinness the abundance of its Sulphureous substance and its penetration but when once it has been melted it becomes so fix that having lost all its Sulphur it can neither evaporate nor be inflamed though you put it into the fire Then therefore it is called Salt of Niter being fix as Salts whereas before its fusion it was so strangely Volatil that when you did but put a Coal into it it presently was in such a flame that it was almost quite consumed Obs 3. That for this Operation we make use of very fine purified Niter because the purer it is the less it hath of fixed
one to corrode and consume all superfluous fleshly Excrescences and it is necessary that it should be in greater quantity than the Mercury to dissolve it entirely Moreover calcin'd Mercury does not retain its natural whiteness because the Vitriol of the Aqua fortis communicates this tincture and because that the Fire here is much more violent than that which is us'd in the preparation of the Remedy call'd Turbith Mineral The dissolvant being also much more over-heated and penetrating by the help of the Fire communicates a sulphureous colour Obs 4. That the Precipitate is found to be equal in weight to the Mercury that was dissolved because though in this Operation it have lost something of its volatil part yet it hath impregnated it self with some of the Salts of the Aqua fortis as much as to make up the weight and these Salts it will keep till it be reviv'd and made Cuicksilver again Obs 5. That the Red Precipitate of Mercury is a Mercury dissolv'd and calcin'd by Aqua fortis and then charg'd with the sharpest part of the Salts of the said Aqua fortis It s Vse and Vertue It is lightly caustick and escarotick or consumptive and therefore eats away all proud flesh and excrescences and to mollifie it a little it is mingled with some Unguent as the Basilicum c. It is good to cleanse Ulcers it is useful likewise in the preparation of the Arcanum Corallinum Arcanum Corallinum PUt as much Red Precipitate as you please into a glass Bell pour upon it a good quantity of warm Water not too hot for fear of breaking your Vessel and do this often till at last your Water come away sweet and insipid then having poured off your last Water put your Precipitate into a little glass Cucurbite and twice as much Spirit of Salt in weight as there is Precipitate set your Cucurbite in a Sand-fire with its Head and glass Receiver fitted to it to draw off by distillation the flegm of the Spirit of Salt in the mean time the volatil Salt of the common Salt which composes the Spirit of Salt will remain in the bottom and be incorporated with the Precipitate of Mercury and so fix it as to make it able to endure a reverberatory Fire without evaporation on the top of this Mercury there is a white Crust which is the grossest part of the Spirit of Salt that is corporified Pour upon all this some cold Water as soon as your vessel is cool to the end you may dissolve this grosser Salt and draw it off from the Mercury reiterating thus your Lotions till your Water come off insipid then put your Mercury which is of a dark yellow into a Crucible and reverberate it in a small reverberatory Furnace till it become as red as Corral and in this reverberation the Salts of the common Salt which were incorporated in the Mercury do evaporate and leave the Mercury in the same weight it had before its first Lotion and nevertheless the Mercury is fix'd by that little of these Salts which it enjoys This done put the said Mercury into a Dish of Earth glazed and pour upon it good Spirit of Wine two or three Fingers deep which set on fire till it be consumed and so reiterate once more the said Flagration to the end that the purgative and vomitive Vertues of the Mercury be milder by the evaporation of the volatil and venomous part of the said Mercury and its Salts Obs 1. That we wash the Red Precipitate with luke-warm Water to the end that all the sharp Salts that are in the said Precipitate be dissolv'd the better and by these reiterated Lotions it becomes at last as sweet as if it had been prepar'd with Spirit of Niter in stead of Aqua fortis Obs 2. That the Spirit of Salt as well as the Spirit of Sulphur has the vertue of fixing Mercury because the Mercury it self too is naturally fix'd being therefore opened and intimately penetrated by the Spirit of Salt the said Spirit communicates to it its fixative vertue and is it self fixed in the Mercury And observe that the Spirit of Salt has un-dyed the Red Precipitate and made it of a dark yellow because the common Salt being by its nature all white and coming to mingle with the Orange-colour must needs clear it and give it this yellow Obs 3. That the Arcanum Corallinum is nothing but Mercury calcin'd and dissolv'd Philosophically by Aqua fortis then fix'd by Spirit of Salt and devested by washings from the most malignous part of its Salts and of the volatilest part of its substance by reiterated flagrations of Spirit of Wine It s Vse and Vertue It purges and sometimes procures a Vomit gently opening and unstopping at the same time the passages and dissolving all the hardnesses of the schirrous parts alone it cures the Pox without fluxing because it is fix'd The Dose is from three to six grains The Crocus Metallorum or Liver of Antimony TAke of Female Antimony one pound and half a pound of common impure Niter powder them and mingle them together in the mean time heat red-hot upon two Bricks in a great Fire of Suppression a large and capacious Crucible or Camion throw into this with a great Iron Ladle a quantity of your matter and cover presently your Crucible keeping it covered till all the smoak cease continue this Projection and Flagration till all your matter be consumed This done encrease the Fire and stir with a stick your matter continually till it be all melted then take it off from the Fire and pour it into a Brass or Iron Mortar hindring as much as you can the Faeces which swim upon the top from going into the Mortar this liquor will congeal into a lump which when it is cold you may break into many pieces as glistring and shining as Steel or as burn'd Liver then if you powder them they will change into a Saffron-colour'd powder not unlike a diseas'd bilious Liver and thence it is call'd the Saffron of Metals As for the Faeces remaining in the Crucible you must throw them away as useless Obs 1. That you must take Female Antimony as being the worst and you may know it by its long bright white Needles as also because it is much more brittle than either the Male or Mineral Antimony The Male is better than the Female and is known by its little blue yellow green Needles diversified in colours like a Rainbow The Mineral Antimony is worst of all because not having been melted it has not lost any of its volatil substance in which consists all its malignity It is distinguished easily for it is full of the Rock out of which it is drawn When you melt Mineral Antimony the Male goes to the bottom In this Operation of the Crocus Metallorum Female Antimony is good enough because the Remedy resulting from it is none of the best of Chymistry you may use the Male if you will but have a
care you do not use the Mineral because being loaded with Earth and Rock it would not melt with so small a quantity of Niter Obs 2. That you must take common Niter not purified but such as comes from the first washing because it is good enough to put the Antimony in fusion and because its Faeces being to be mingled with the Faeces of the said Antimony in the melting it would have been superfluous to have purified the Niter before-hand yet if you will be at the charge purified Niter will do no harm it will rather be better Obs 3. That you must powder your Antimony and Niter and mingle them well together that so they may the easilier take fire Obs 4. That you must not use a glaz'd Pot or Crucible lest the enflamed matter should corrode and melt the Lead of the Pot. Obs 5. That you must not throw your matter into your Crucible till it be red-hot else your Niter would not take fire and so would not be able to put your Antimony in fusion Obs 6. That you must not throw all your matter at a time into the Crucible for then the fusion of your Antimony would not be well performed because the Niter by so great a flagration would exhale and be gone before it had melted the Antimony Obs 7. That after every Projection you must cover your Crucible very close to the end you may keep in the enflamed vapours of the Niter who by their circulations do the better contribute to the melting of the Antimony Obs 8. That after all your matter is consumed yet you must encrease the fire because the Antimony is but half melted by the said flagrations but being already opened by the Niter it soon melts if the fire be encreased and in the mean time you stir it well that so the Antimonial Liquor may go to the bottom and be free from its Faeces and therefore we use a stick and not any thing of Iron because the said Liquor would corrode the Iron as we may perceive in the Regulus of Mars where the Antimony dissolves and eats the filings of Iron that are added to it Besides you may freely put the said stick to the bottom of your Crucible because you do not mean to hinder the Faeces of the Antimony from going to the bottom and therefore both melting together descend likewise together and only the Faeces of the Niter swim on the top of the melted Antimony Obs 9. That the Liver of Antimony or Crocus Metallorum is nothing but Antimony opened and melted by Niter and not devested of its terrestreity but full of its malignant purgative and vomitive Sulphur therefore we have used but half the quantity of Niter to a double proportion of Antimony and we have let it stand no longer upon the Fire than was necessary to melt it with the fixt Salt of the Niter remaining in the Crucible It s Vse and Vertues We seldom or never use the Liver of Antimony till we have made it Crocus metallorum by pulverisation It is a Moderate vomitive betwixt violent and gentle and purges too at the same time This powder serves ordinarily to make the Vinum emeticum or emetick Wine by putting one ounce of it to infuse in a quart of white Wine Sack Beer Cider c. the Dosis of this drink will be from one to two ounces to take at the mouth and from four to six ounces in an emollient decoction in a Clyster without dissolving in it any thing else The Regule of Antimony TAke three pound of male Antimony one pound and a half of common Niter one pound and a half of Tartar and four ounces of Wood Coals in the mean time heat red hot a great Crucible in a great circulary fire of suppression then throw in your matter by parcels with an Iron or wooden-ladle and cover your Pot or Crucible at every time till the smoak be past then when your Crucible is almost full encrease your fire and with a stick stir your matter from time to time that so the purest part of the Antimony may go to the bottom but do not put your stick to the bottom of the pot lest the Regule which is in the bottom should be mingled with its Faeces that swim on the top continue doing thus till all your matter be melted which will be in half an hour or thereabouts Then if you have any of your first matter left for which there was not room in the Crucible you may make an end of it and put it to this observing the same circumstances when all is melted give a violent fire for a quarter of an hour to the end that the most harmful part of the Antimony may exhale After this take off your Crucible set it upon a hot brick for a cold one would go near to break it because of its humidity your Crucible being cold break it with a hammer and in the bottom you will find your Regulus congealed in a lump of the proportion of the bottom of the pot as white as silver very smooth underneath and sometimes starred above in its superficies on the top of this Silvery lump are the grayish Faeces dry and spongious and in good quantity and marked also with the Star but when the Star fails the Regulus is as good as if it had not fail'd for the Star is produced but by a long fusion which straightning it does also diminish something of its purgative and emetick vertues by the too great evaporation of the flowers and volatil Salt of the said Antimony Obs 1. That you must preserve the Faeces of your Regulus for out of it you must draw the Golden Diaphoretick Sulphur as shall be said hereafter Obs 2. That we use here the Male Antimony as best because here we aim at a more excellent remedy than the Crocus Metallorum Obs 3. That we use here common Niter unpurified for the reason alleadged in the Chapter of the Liver of Antimony Obs 4. That we here make use of Niter to open and set in fusion the body of Antimony though we do also imploy the Tartar to hinder a too great ebullition of the said Antimony because the Niter being somewhat busie in calcining the Tartar cannot employ all its force upon the Antimony besides the Tartar being not inflameable by its nature hinders the Niter from causing this ebullition and being withall a gentle Salt it purifies cleanses and whitens the Antimony Then we use Wood-Coals in powder for the same end and because also the Coals being spongious are apt to draw to themselves and retain the Faeces of the Antimony Now it is very necessary in this Operation to prevent the ebullition lest the Antimony should run over the pot and be lost we use also but one proportion of Niter to two of Antimony for fear the flagration should be too quick and we keep all the matter longer upon the fire than we do the Crocus metallorum to give the
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-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
Sun for the reverberation of its beams would alter the white colour which is the beauty of these Remedies all Magisteries may be trochiskated in the same way and then must be kept in a glass Vial well stop'd Obs 1. That in this Composition we make use of Male Antimony rather than of the Female because being heavier it is better and for the same reason we use the Regulus of Antimony and rather the Regulus of Mars because it is already more purified of the venomous part of its volatil substance Now in this Remedy we do pretend that all that part of the Antimony which has been opened by the Niter is absolutely devested of its purgative and emetick substance that is of all its volatil Salt and Sulphur therefore we ought not to use the Female Antimony which has more of this volatil substance than the Male. But the Regulus of Antimony is better because as it is devested as well of a considerable part of its volatil substance as of its terrestreity it is fitter to be purified and entirely refin'd from all its malignous qualities and yet the Regulus of Mars is best of all because in it the emetick Vertue is already fixed by Mars incorporated with the Antimony You must also take notice That they that seek the Philosophers Stone in Antimony prefer Mineral Antimony before all others thinking that because it has not been melted it is impregnated with all its vertue and therefore ought to be used also in this Operation but without diving any further in this Well of Democritus I will only say That for the use of Physick Mineral Antimony is the most malignant of all and it is devested of these ill qualities only by long and reiterated fusions and evaporations Obs 2. That we use here very fine Niter because we are not only to open and melt the Antimony for common Niter would do that but also so to penetrate the Antimony as to cause an evaporation of all its volatil purgative and emetick substance Now common Niter cannot do this because having a terrestrious substance and a fix'd Salt in it self it would not be fit to maintain a long and penetrating fusion Obs 3. That for the same reason we put three times as much Niter upon the said Dosis of Antimony and for the same reason we keep the Antimony and the Niter upon the Fire half an hour after their Flagration and Projection till all the smoak be vanished and with it the emetick and purgative qualities which the Niter had opened and set loose in the Antimony but if after that you continue your Fire it will produce the same effect in the Antimony that the Niter did that is it will discover and bring forth a new emetick and purgative vertue as we see it is done in the Vitrum Antimonii or glass of Antimony and yet not be able to make it evaporate for that belongs to Niter to do and by this you will perceive that one must be a good Artist that prepares this Remedy well Obs 4. That you must with all the care imaginable wash and edulcorate your Magisterie of Antimony else in stead of being simply Diaphoretick and opening it would prove vomitive because that though the volatil part of your Niter has carried away with it all the volatil substance of the Antimony that it had un-chain'd and set at liberty yet the fix'd Salt of the said Niter remaining in the Antimony retains some part of the emetick substance therefore it is necessary by frequent Lotions to dissolve the said fix'd Salt and so extract it And here again you see the great pains and care that an Artist is at in preparing of this Remedy so excellent and so much used Obs 5. That the Diaphoretick Antimony is nothing but an Antimony most intimately penetrated and opened by Niter and all its emetick and purgative vertues evaporated and carried away with the said Niter by a long and great Fire and then afterwards edulcorated by washing and Lotions It s Vse and Vertues 'T is a powerful Diaphoretick and an excellent Diuretick apperitive and desopilative it is used with good success against all Venereal Diseases as old Gonorrhaea's being mingled with some Venice Turpentine that has been brought to the consistence of Colophone as we shall teach in the Chapter of the Diuretick Pills It is very good against the Small Pox in the weight of a Five Shillings piece of Gold in Water or Syrup of Cinamon taking it three days together to make the small pox come out and dry against all opilations and tumours of the Spleen the Pancreas and the Mesentery incorporating it with the Salt of Tamaris the Mercurius dulcis the Crocus martis apperitivus and scummed Honey as it is here frequently practised with good success The Black and Acid Oyl of Antimony TAke of Antimony fine Niter Brimstone of each one pound powder them and mingle them well together then fire this mixtion in the same way and manner and in the same Vessels that we taught to make the Spirit of Sulphur in There will rise a vapour as red as blood and there will stick to the sides of the Bell and of the Pan and upon the surface of the water a little skin of the same colour all your Matter being consumed take your red flowers and mingle them with your water which is already impregnated with the acid Spirit of these three Minerals Put all this into a glass Matrass unluted and let it be but three quarters full Pose your Matrass on a Round in a small circulatory Furnace continuing a gentle fire till your flowers melt and go to the bottom and that there appears no Sulphur swimming upon the Liquor which will look thick and of a red dark blackish colour but take care that the ebullition be not such as to run over or break your Matrass 'T is in this case that one must be a good Artist and acquire by attention reason and experience a way of Operating surely and easily This done take off your Matrass and pour out your liquor very hot into a white earthen Pot. When it is cool separate by inclination the black and acid Oyl and you will find in the bottom of your Pot a congealed lump of yellow reddish Sulphur keep the said Oyl in a Glass well stop'd and keep your Sulphur to serve you in the making of the Salt of Brimstone Obs 1. That Niter is here used to open the body of Antimony the Brimstone is employed to fix its emetick quality and the Brimstone if it were not joyned with Niter would not be able to inflame the Antimony for the Brimstone being stifled in these vessels would presently go out but the Niter once a-fire though afterwards stifled yet sets the other combustible bodies that are with it a-fire also till they be consumed Obs 2. That the smoak and flowers of this Matter are red because of the Sulphur of the Antimony which is redder than ordinary Sulphur and so
therefore serves to ripen and Suppurate wounds being mingled with the ordinary digestive it hinders the Gangrene being mingled with the Aegyptiac or other like unguent it stinks extremely and therefore being smelt to helps the suffocations of the Matrix The Oyls of Mastick Oblibanum Storax Benjamin and all other Gumms except Camphire are made in the same way and method and without intermedium as the Oyl of Myrrha The Oyl of Bricks or of the Philosophers PUt five pound of powder'd Brick into a Glass Retort well luted then pour into it one pound of Oyl of Olives either with a Tunnel or a Paper Coffin in case the neck of your Retort be so straight that you cannot pour into it otherwise without spilling Do not fill above two parts of your Retort left the oyl in boyling should run out in its proper substance and carry the Brick along with it before it distill Place your Retort upon a Round hollow Earthen Pan in a circulary fire and fit to it a Receiver Give the Fire by little and little and have a care you do not put your Coals near the Retort before the flegm be entirely distilled off which you will know when you shall hear that your matter makes no more noise in the Retort then encrease the fire and lay your kindled Coals near the Retort and at last give a fire of suppression by covering your Retort with kindled live Coals There will come two Oyls one red and the other black and stinking the distillation ought to be performed drop by drop and besides these drops there come fumes that is a sign that the fire is too strong therefore lessen it This distillation will last four or five hours out of one pound of Oyl of Olives and five pound of Bricks you will have about four ounces of Oyl and half an ounce of flegm separate by a glass Tunnel the flegm that will go to the bottom from the Oyl which swims upon the top if you rectifie this Oyl in a little glass Retort in a sand-sand-fire it will become yellowish and less stinking Obs 1. That we use a glass and not a stone Retort because the Oyl would penetrate the last and cannot penetrate the first Obs 2. That we give an intermedium to the Oyl of Olives because it can never be distilled alone and would sooner break the Retort than distill and this intermedium is rather powderd Brick then any thing else because it being a spongious porous substance it is sooner imbib'd and then having little flegm because it has been baked it is fitter for this Operation where much flegm would be prejudicial and would go near to break the Retort by its combat with Oyl Some quench pieces of Bricks red hot in Oyl then powder and distill them but they have a very small quantity of Oyl and yet they must use a great Retort and a great Reverberatory fire Obs 3. That the Oyl of Bricks is nothing buâ— Oyl of Olives distilled having acquired by distillation a Tenuity and Thinness of substance which makes it very penetrative and warming and also very stinking the Brick communicates no vertue to it and is only an intermedium It s Vse and Vertues This Oyl is very penetrating inciding and resolving and therefore is most Soveraign for the pains and swellings that come from cold humours as in the Sciatica and also for contusions and blows The Oyl of yellow Wax TAke five parts of Clay or powder'd Bricks put them into an Earthen glazed Pan and pour upon them one part of yellow Wax melted incorporate them well together and make little Balls and Cylinders to put easily into a glass Retort well luted fill it up to the neck place it upon a round hollow Earthen Pan in a circulary Fire fit and lute to it a Receiver give the fire by degrees as in the Oyl of Bricks your matter being once hot the flegm begins to boyl and make a noise and comes out first in form of a white Vapour then the Oyl also in the same form of white vapours which are condensed into a very red stinking Oyl which when cold congeals into butter as yellow as Gold This Operation will last four or five hours For a pound of Wax out of which you will have fourteen ounces of Oyl or Butter and half an ounce of flegm If you rectifie this Oyl divers times in a little glass Retort by a sand fire it will become as white and as clear as whites of Eggs and will not stink so much Observe That there are no other observations to be made upon this process than what has been already observed in the making of the Oyl of Bricks It s Use and Vertues are likewise the same but besides it is most excellent for the clefts of the Breasts in women The Oyl of Yolks of Eggs. PUt twenty or thirty Eggs into a Kettle of cold water set your Kettle upon the fire and boyl your Eggs till they be hard then scale them and take out the Yolks put all these Yolks together into a frying-Pan which set upon a Trevet and make a good flaming fire under the Pan then crumble all your yolks with an Iron Spoon and so turn them now and then continue thus doing till almost all your yolks be reduced to a black Oyl and that there remains but a few burnt black Faeces pour this Oyl into a little Earthen Pot keeping with your spoon the Faeces from going in with it this Oyl does not congeal because it has been drawn with a great Fire and you may use it without any other preparation but if you desire to have it clearer and more penetrating then rectifie it in a glass Retort in a sand-fire it will become as yellow as Gold and will congeal like Butter If you rectifie it in a naked fire it will not be so yellow but it will congeal a little for by both of these rectifications by a gentle heat the stinking Sulphur remains in the Retort and if was this Sulphur that made it stink and kept it from congealing which is proved by this following experience which is another way of clarifying the said Oyl viz. Put the said Oyl into a double Matrass for a month over a gentle fire or in a Lamp Furnace or ashes or in Horse-dung the Oyl will clarifie its self most perfectly because it s Faeces will go to the bottom and then you may easily separate the clarified Oyl from its Faeces Obs 1. That if you put your Eggs into the water when it boyles that they will scarce be hard enough and therefore will not be fit to yield their Oyl beeause they retain while they are not hard somthing of a superfluous humidity and in the Pan they would crackle and sparkle and hardly afford any Oyl Obs 2. That this Oyl though when it comes from the Pan be blackish has not nevertheless any ill taste nor smell but when it is rectified it becomes sharp and stinking It s Vse
Vse and Vertues It is a most excellent Anodinum and Ripener for the wounds of the nervous parts and is very good for pains in the ears by putting some drops of it into them The Essence of Musk and Ambergreece drawn by Spirit of Wine PUt into a small Matrass one dragm of Ambergreece and half a dragm of Musk well powder'd before hand pour upon them five ounces of Spirit of Wine seal up your Matrass hermetically and put it into a little earthen Pan full of Sand up to half the belly set it in the Sun for forty days in the hottest time of the year from eight of the clock in the morning till seven at night keeping behind your Matrass a Tin Leaf to receive the Sun-beams and reverberate them upon the glass The Musk and Ambergreece will be almost quite dissolved in the Spirit of Wine and will dye it of a red colour like a Ruby break the neck of your Glass and pour out your Essence into a glass Vial well stopp'd and waxed and above the stopple put a piece of an oyled bladder Obs 1. That Ambergreece being a kind of Bitumen and Musk being of an oyly nature they may easily be dissolved in Spirit of Wine and communicate to it their Tincture It s Vse and Vertues One drop of this Essence perfumes for ever whatsoever it touches that can imbibe it and is much more pleasant with a double quantity of Ambergreece than with equal parts of Musk and Ambergreece because the odour of the Ambergreece is sweeter and that of the Must stronger The Tincture of Tartar or Spirit of Wine clarified TAke as much as you please of Tartar calcin'd to whiteness properly called Salt of Tartar or of Ashes made of burnt Lees of Wine call'd Gravell'd Ashes put either of them into a Crucible or unglaz'd stone Pot place it in a Wind-Furnace till your matter be blew like Vitriol of Cyprus which may be done in an hours time take off your Pot and with a brass Spoon take out your matter and powder it while it is hot in a brass Mortar and then put it into a Matrass which you must stir and shake in your hand to the end the heat of the matter may extend its self equally to all the parts of the Glass and not break one by over-heating it Let your Matrass have two parts empty pour into your matter Spirit of Wine till your Glass be half full place this Vessel in a Sand-Furnace giving an ordinary Fire according to Art let it stand till the Spirit of Wine become as red as a Ruby then pour off by inclination this Tincture pour on more Spirit upon the Faeces and reiterate this as long as the Faeces will yield any Tincture there will remain a good quantity of the said Faeces which you may re-calcine and use as other Salt of Tartar keep your Tincture Observe That Tartar being a sulphureous and inflameable Salt may take the colour of blew and communicate a red Tincture to the Spirit of Wine It s Vse and Vertues It is the most powerful and penetrating Desopilative that is it produces its effect strongly and gently so that for the obstructions of the Spleen the Pancreas the Mesentery and the Mesaraick Veins there is not the like remedy amongst Chymists nor Galenists for by the Spirit of Wine it dissolves all the most tenacious Viscosities in the little Veins and pores of the Belly and by the Salt of Tartar it carries away all the impurities of the said parts so that no Soap can cleanse more than this Tincture It s use is to be dissolved from ten to thirty drops in some Broth or appropriated Water to take every morning fasting for some days The Spirit and foetid Oyl of Tartar TAke a glass Retort luted up to half its neck if you do make but a little of this Remedy or if you make a great deal take a Stone one fill it up to the neck with good Tartar of Montpellier either red or white beaten to a fine powder place your Retort upon a Pot-cover full of Ashes in the small reverberatory Furnace if you use but two or three pounds or in an Earthen Bowl in a great circulatory Fire if you use but half a pound fit a Receiver and give your Fire by degrees there will soon come forth a white dark vapour which will continue all the time of the Operation the Flegm comes first then the Tartar takes fire in the Retort and is in a flame and from the smoak of this flame come the Spirit and Oyl Continue your fire till there come no more out of the Retort and till your Receiver be clear and cold though the Fire be violent under the Retort out of one pound of Tartar you will draw about ten ounces of Spirit with its Flegm and two ounces of Oyl in the Retort will remain four ounces of a black Salt which you must dissolve in Water then filtrate and coagulate to use as the true Salt of Tartar being entirely devested of its Flegm Spirit and Oyl and so being a pure Salt for the Tartar contains but very little Faeces or Earth Observe That in this Operation we perceive that Tartar is a very sulphureous Salt since it takes fire in the Retort and there comes from it a blackish Oyl stinking and inflameable and that the Faeces do remain black and burnt in the Retort It s Vse and Vertues This Oyl is indifferently stinking and caustick it serves for Ring-worms and exfoliation of Bones or for Farsey in Horses the Spirit is acid when rectified and is good against the Stone and Gravel The Spirit and Aromatick Oyl of Juniper Berries Put fresh Juniper Berries into a Brass Vesica till it be half full fill one third more of the Vesica with common cold water let them infuse twenty four hours in the Vesica with a gentle fire to extract afterwards the better the oyly Essence of your Berries having all this while stopt the mouth of your Vesica with a Linnen-cloth take out this cloth and fit to your Brass body its Mores-head border'd with a refrigeratory and a moveable Pipe and do as has been taught in the distillation of the waters of Plants that which will first come will be the Aromatick Balsamick Essence or Oyl of Juniper Bays together with a little flegm or inflegmated Spirit and then the rest of the flegm will follow Out of a peck of Berries you will not have above two ounces of Essence or Oyl all the rest will be flegm or Spirit inflegmatized Obs 1. That because we can draw but a very small quantity of Oyl or Essence not only out of Juniper Berries but also out of all Balsamick and Aromatick Leaves Flowers Rinds Barks Roots Woods Berries and Seeds therefore we have found the way of using Spirit of Turpentine separated by three or four Rectifications from its red Oyl putting three or four ounces upon every peck of Berries to the end that being incorporated
should melt by the violent heat of the Fire and mingle with the Mars Obs 3. That we powder the said Mars while it is warm that we may powder it easilier and make a finer powder of it Obs 4. That we searce it through a Silk Sieve that so we may make it so impalpable as that in passing through the Stomach it leaves no hard gravelous substance that might offend the Coats of the Stomach or Intestines Obs 5. That the Astringent Saffron of Mars is nothing but Mars calcin'd Philosophically by Fire and Brimstone devested of its Salt by its dissolution in common Water then reverberated powdered and searsed to be reduced to an impalpable powder It s Vse and Vertues It is a powerful Astringent inwardly taken and exteriourly applied it stops the Bloody Flux the Hepatick Flux and all Diarrhaea's Its Dose is from half a dragm to two in some Conserve or Preserve or Bolus It stops likewise bleeding of the Nose by powdering some Cotton with this powder and filling the Nostrils with the Cotton thus powdered A Little TREATISE OF CHYMISTRY OR An Abridgement of the precedent TREATISE Of the Hermetick Lute TAke of Potters Earth Sand and Horse-dung equal quantity of each and knead them together with a little Water or Whites of Eggs to a soft lump this serves to make Bricks in a Mould to cement your Bricks in the structure of your Furnaces to lute your Vessels and to fill up the holes chinks and cracks of your Furnaces and Vessels Of Hermetick Furnaces AFurnace to distil with the Vesica covered with its Refrigeratory Waters Aromatick Essences and Spirit of Wine it has an Ash-hole a Fire-room and a Laboratory the Laboratory must be as high as the Vesica and half a finger in its circumference wider than the Vesica you must put Wood and Coals into the Fire-room A Furnace for a violent Reverberatory Fire serving to draw the Spirits and Oyls of Minerals and Metals in a glass or stone Retort luted or in an iron one it is like the precedent only the Laboratory must be of the height of the Retort and that there must be a gap to put the neck of the Retort out at and must have an inch in circumference more than the Retort then in the Operation you must add to it three Layes or Rounds of Bricks lesser still towards the top and fill the holes with pieces of Brick or Iron Wood and Coals are the materials of your Fire A Furnace for a Circulatory Fire and of Suppression serving to distil the Flegm Spirit and Oyl of Seeds Berries Woods Barks Roots c. in a stone or glass Retort luted it is built like the precedent only the Ash-hole and Fire-room are not separated from one another and that you must cover the top of your Furnace with an earthen Pan that has a hole in its middle Wood and Coals are your fuel A furnace for a Wheel Fire serving to sublime the Salts of Minerals and Metals in a Matrass of Glass luted it is made of two Rounds of Bricks without Cement or Lute leaving a little space between the Bricks You must put an earthen Bowl in the middle to set your Matrass on and kindled Coals round about it A Furnace for a Circulatory Fire and of Suppression serving to calcine and melt Minerals and Metals and to calcine Vegetables and Animals in Crucibles or great Pots of the same Earth It is made of two Rounds of unluted Bricks set at a little distance one from the other that the air may come in it is enough to make it two fingers above the Crucible when set in its earthen Bowl you must lay round about as high as the Vessel kindled Coals A Furnace for a Circulary Fire and of Suppression serving to distil Oyls acid Spirits and Flegms of Gums Rosins VVax in a glass Retort luted It is built as the precedent only there must be a place for the neck of the Retort to come out at The same Materials of VVood and Coals for your Fire A Furnace to distil in a Balneum Maris or Mariae or vaporous Bath all sorts of Liquors to evaporate the Extract of Salts and for all other Operations It is made of divers Layes of Bricks luted together there is in it an Ash-hole a Fire-room and a Laboratory and in the top of the Laboratory three little gaps to give a passage to the Flame You must put your Coals in the Fire-room and a Kettle with a brim in your Laboratory A Furnace for the Fire of Ashes or Sand wet or dry serving to distil and rectifie all sorts of Liquors and for Infusion Digestion Tinctures Evaporation c. It is made of an Oval Lay of Tiles and three other Oval Layes of crooked Bricks cemented with our Lute Plaster of Paris and Water so that the Oval Rounds grow wider as they rise higher and that there be in one end of the Oval a double door for the Ash-hole and Fire-room then building a square about the said Oval with broken Tiles and Mortar add one perfect Round of Bricks leaving a little gap over against the Fire-room-door then apply your iron plate and add two or three Rounds of Bricks more to make the Laboratory at last put upon the said iron Plate Ashes or Sand an inch thick A Wind-Furnace for violent Fusions is made by building a Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression upon the bottom of a Hogshead in which bottom there is a hole as big as ones head which is covered with a Grate well cemented with Lute and Plaster The Hogshead must be knocked out at the lower end and elevated from the ground about half a foot Of Spirit of Wine TAke as much Brandy as you please put it into the Copper Vesica placed in its proper Furnace fit to it its cover or Moors-head bordered with its Refrigeratory then fit to the nose or pipe of the said cover and to the pipe of Copper that passes through two Hogsheads full of Water a little moveable pipe to joyn them together Light the Fire in the Furnace that serves to distil Aromatick Essences the Spirit will come in a stream This Spirit of Wine is not good to be taken inwardly if it be not rectified in a glass Cucurbite and Alembick the first is excellent for burnings the second is proper to dissolve Gums and Rofins to take inwardly and to draw their Tinctures and Extracts Of Salt of Tartar TAke of Tartar and Niter powdered equal parts mingle them and having put them into a glaz'd earthen Pan set fire to them with a red hot Iron stirring them continually till the Niter be consumed and the Tartar calcined It is aperitive and diuretick The Dose is from one to two dragms The Regulus of Antimony MIngle three pound of Male Antimony with one pound and an half of common Niter as much of Tartar four ounces and an half of powdered Charcoal put this mixtion by spoonfuls into a pot heated red-hot in a
it till your water come away insipid then filter your Magistery and dry it in the shade The Use of it is That it is a powerful Diuretick and Diaphoretick against Venereal Diseases the Small Pox and all long Distempers The Dose is from ten to twenty grains and more Boyl four ounces of Venice Turpentine into the consistence of Colophone in a kettle full of Water and mingle with it while it is warm an ounce of Diaphoretick Antimony half an ounce of Niter sulphurated and as much Cream of Tartar form of it Pills which will be excellent for old Gonorrhaea's Of the binding Saffron of Mars PUt two parts of filings of Steel and one part of powder'd Brimstone all at once into a Crucible heated red-hot in a fire of Suppression till the Brimstone be consumed and an hour after take off your Crucible and powder presently your matter spread this powder that is now of the colour of Violets upon Tiles and it will become brown It is good in bloody and Hepatick Fluxes in the weight of a dragm It augments the binding vertue of Plasters The opening Saffron of Mars SPrinkle the binding Saffron of Mars in a stone pan with Spirit of Vitriol or Brimstone two fingers above the matter which in two or three days will be a kind of paste with which fill a large Crucible and set it in a Reverberatory Fire for eight hours then powder it while warm and searce it The Vse This Saffron is good against the Yellow Jaundice it provokes the Monthly Courses and opens the Spleen from half a dragm to two Of the Spirit of Sulphur PLace a stone Cup half full of Sand upon a little Pot placed in the middle of a great earthen Pan a quarter full of Water put into it a spoonful of powder'd Brimstone and with a red Cart-nail set it on fire put presently a glass Bell over the Pan the Brimstone will burn the Spirit will impregnate the Water and the Flowers will produce a little skin reiterate all that till you have thus consumed four pound of Brimstone then mingle your Flowers and your impregnated Water in a Matrass with a short neck and evaporate in a Circulary Fire the Flegm till your Brimstone be dissolved and that your Spirit grows black pour it all into a stone or White-ware Vessel while it is warm the Brimstone will be congealed in the bottom and you shall have half an ounce of black Oyl or Spirit of Brimstone It cools purifies the Blood preserves from the Plague fixes Mercury dissolves Pearls and Coral and cures Cancers and Warts Of the Spirit of Vitriol and Oyl of Colcothar FIll a glass Retort throughly luted with green Vitriol calcin'd to a grey colour in a great Crucible in a Circulary Fire and of Suppression place it in a Furnace of great Reverberation till there appear black spots upon the Receiver then pour off your Spirit of Vitriol which is as clear as Water encrease your fire you shall have a black Oyl very acid and there will remain a Colcothar in the Retort The Use of both is To cool and resist Corruption against all Distempers of the Liver Kidneys against burning and pestilential Feavers it serves also to dissolve Pearls Coral Crabs Eyes Egg-shells c. but it is not strong enough to dissolve Metals Of the Oyl of Myrrha FIll with Myrrha in pieces a glass Retort luted place it in a Circulary Fire fitting to it a great Receiver there will come out a Flegm and an Oyl both together separate them one from another with a glass Tunnel The Use of the Oyl is Against Fits of the Mother by smelling to it it cleanses and ripens Wounds being mingled with the Digestivum and hinders the Gangrene being mingled with the Egyptiacum Of Cauteries SLack half a pound of Quick-lime in a stone Pan by pouring Water upon it by little and little till it become like pap in the mean time heat in a Crucible in a Fire of Suppression two pounds of gravell'd Ashes and throw them hot into the said pap then pour upon it sufficient quantity of Water to dissolve your Salts after twelve hours infusing pour your Lixivium into a brass Basin and evaporate it till it be dry and thus as it is you may use it as people do other Cauteries If you melt this matter you may mould Cauteries upon a Marble The Use is To cauterize when they are moulded they are dryer and must be well wet before their application Of the Red acid oyl of Antimony POwder and mingle fine Niter Brimstone and Antimony of each a pound set fire to your matters by little and little in an earthen pan under a glass Bell as you do the Spirit of Brimstone then evaporate it in a Matrass of a short neck till your Brimstone be melted and your Niter exhaled and that your Oyl appears red and thick taking care that your matter in boyling do not run over pour all your matter into a little stone pot or of White-ware and when it is cold it will congeal into a fair reddish Sulphur The Use of the Oyl is To cure by touching the Ulcers and Cancres of the Pox it purges without provoking vomit from eight to eighteen drops Of Besoard Mineral MElt some butter of Antimony and pour it into a glass Bell and add to it drop by drop and at divers times Spirit of Niter in equal quantity for fear of too great an ebullition when the smoak and boyling cease pour to it a pint of Sea-water filtred and cold there will be produced a white Precipitate after twelve hours pour off this Water sweeten your Precipitate with common Water then filter the remainder through a coffin of Paper and keep your powder well stop'd It s Use is To be an excellent Sudorifick for malignant Feavers and the Pox. The Precipitate of Bismuth PUt four ounces of powder'd Bismuth into a glass Bell and pour upon it by little and little eight ounces of Spirit of Niter having a care of too great an ebullition and of the venomous vapours of the said Spirit The ebullition being ceas'd and the dissolution perform'd and cold it will crystallize Pour upon it Sea-water to precipitate the Magistery pour off your Sea-water and pour on common Water to sweeten it filter the remainder through a Paper coffin and let it dry in the shade The Use is To dry Ulcers and to be a Fucus being mingled with Pomatum The spirit and oyl of Turpentine FIll a glass Retort luted with the waterish Spirit of Turpentine with its Oyl distil it in a Circulary Fire till three parts of four come away which will be the Spirit and there will remain in the Retort a thick red Oyl rectifie your Spirit so often till there remain no Oyl in it The Oyl is a good Anodynum for wounds of the nervous parts the Spirit is a good Diuretick dissolves Gums extracts Tinctures of Aromatick Plants and serves to make the Balsam of Sulphur Of the sulphurated Niter call'd Sal Antifebrile or the salt against Feavers TAke four ounces of Brimstone or its Flowers and mingle them with eight ounces of fine Niter fire this mixtion by degrees in an earthen Cup set in a stone Pan in which is a quart of Spirit of Urine covering the pot with a Bell then take the Faeces of the calcin'd Brimstone and powder them and mingle them with the Spirit of Urine impregnated with the Spirits of Niter and Sulphur let them infuse twelve hours in this stone Pot till they be dissolved filter the Dissolution and evaporate it in a short necked Matrass in a Circulary Fire till it come to a white scum then diminish the Fire and evaporate it till it cease boyling and have a care that the too much boyling do not break your Vessel pour this matter while warm into a White-ware Dish and it will congeal like Crystal Mineral To mould it you must melt it and then pour it into a Vial or melt in the Vial and then break your Vial by cold Water and take away all the Glass with the point of a Knife The Use 'T is a powerful Diuretick and cooler it resists Corruption it drives Gravel cures Feavers softens Metals The Dose is from twenty to thirty Grains FINIS