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

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some washings and then they grow whiter Obs 6. That if while the Niter is deflegmatizing there chance to fall into it any small live Coal then it will all be in a flame till the Coal be consumed and to extinguish this flame there is no way but to take out the said Coal and to cover the pot Obs 7. That if after the melting of your Niter and the purifying of it by the different injections of Brimstone you do not take off your pot or take away some Coals and the two first rounds of Bricks of your Furnace that then your Niter will break the pot though it were of Iron and then the fire will inflame your Niter which inflamed will all exhale and vanish away The reason why the pot will be broken is because that then the Spirits of the Niter being strongly heated fly out of their body and so corrode and break the pot Obs 8. That the Niter does not take fire in the pot because that though a spoonful of Niter cast into a pot red-hot will presently be in a flame and vanish all away in smoak yet a great quantity of Niter even after its deflegmations cannot be set a-fire but by a red-hot Coal unless you use a fire of Suppression and so penetrate the pot as to make it fire the Niter And that cannot be done because in such an Operation an Earthen or Iron Pot or Crucible would break and a Glass one would melt down Obs 9. That the Niter being melted is not afterwards coagulated into a lump upon the fire as Vitriol and Alum use to do because they are gross terrestrious Salts which Niter is not Obs 10. That you must take well purified Niter that so there be less of fix'd Salt in it for the fix'd Salt is easily dissolved into Water and therefore your Niter being clear of it will make your Crystals whiter and drier if you use ordinary unrefin'd Niter your Crystals will be apt to dissolve into Water Obs 11. That the Brimstone takes fire in the melted Niter and yet inflames not the Niter because the oyly substance of the Brimstone is dryer than the Niter and because that the Niter can scarce ever be well deflegmated for its Spirits by reason of their great thinness are subject to evaporate and be gone with the flegm as also because no Vessel can long contain melted Niter without breaking or melting Obs 12. That the Brimstone purifies the Niter because that the grosser part of the Brimstone which has not been a-fire mingling its self with the melted Niter hurries along with it to the bottom all the Faeces of the Niter Obs 13. That Crystal Mineral is nothing but a well-purified Niter that is well devested 1. Of its Flegm 2. Of its fix'd Salt 3. Of its black Faeces which it had contracted in those Vessels in which Niter is grosly prepared at first and so you see unless you filtrate it and then crystallize it it is not sufficiently purified When once it has been crystallized then you may dissolve it again and reduce it into a white Crust which is called Lapis Prunellae Now the Crystal Mineral loses its flegm by the melting of the Niter it is devested of it s Smoot by the flagrations of the Brimstone and by the filtration and it loses its fix'd Salt by the crystallization The Vse and Virtues It cools very much resists Corruption and is Diuretick It may be taken inwards from half a scruple to a drachm and in a Clyster from two drachms to half an ounce The Niter sulphurated or the nitrous Salt of Sulphur TAke four ounces of Flowers of Brimstone and eight ounces of very fine purified Niter reduce them into a very fine Powder separately and then mingle them together Then pour into a great stone-Pan a pint of Spirit of Urine drawn from fresh Urine in a Glass-Alimbeck and Sand-fire in the middle of this Pan set a little stone-Pot upon which set also a little Cup of the same Earth Then begin to make the flagrations of the said Brimstone and Niter together and for this effect put a spoonful of these two powders mingled together into the little Cup then put into them a red-hot Iron your matter will be immediately in a flame therefore cover your Pan with a Glass-Bell whereby you may receive the red Vapours of the flaming matter These Vapours will dissolve into three different Substances viz. into Spirits of Niter and Spirits of Sulphur which fall together and are incorporated with the Spirit of Urine in the bottom of the Pan and into nitrous flowers of Brimstone which will be found sticking partly to the sides of the Bell and partly to the sides of the Pan and part of them will be spread in form of a Pellicula or little skin upon the superficies of the Spirit of Urine Take notice That in this first flagration your Cup breaks infallibly because it is not lined or fenced with any thing that can hinder the Niter from exrcising its activity upon it In a quarter of an hour or thereabouts the Vapours will be passed and dissolved into the three Substances I have spoken of which done break that little reddish skin upon the superficies of the Spirit of Urine to the end that in the following flagrations the Spirit of Urine may be impregnated with the acid Spirits of the Sulphur and Niter which could not be if that skin remained entire then take away your broken Cup in which you will find a whitish Crust left After the first flagration powder this and put it into a new stone Cup and it will keep it from breaking as the first did Then put another spoonful of water into this Cup fire it and in a word observe all the circumstances of the Operation already described continuing it till all your Sulphur and Niter be consumed This done take the calcined Faeces of Niter and Brimstone which remain in the bottom of your Cup and reduce them into a fine powder in an Iron Mortar then mingle them with all that is contained in your Earthen Pan taking care to scrape off from the sides into the Pan all those Flowers that stick either to the Bell or Pan Let this stand and infuse the space of twelve hours to the end that the acid of the Niter and Sulphur may entirely dissolve all the said Faeces and Flowers filtrate this Dissolution through a brown Paper over a glass Pan or Dish and there will remain in the Paper some grey Faeces of the Flowers of Sulphur which you may throw away Then begin your second Operation that is the deflegmation or evaporation of your Dissolution To this purpose put your Dissolution into a Matrass which must not be luted because towards the end of the Operation you are to see what passes in the Vessel Your Matrass must be short-necked to the end the evaporation may be quicker and it must not be above three quarters full lest the matter should
Salt in it and therefore yields more Spirits you may learn in the Chapter of Crystal-Mineral how Niter is purified and that in its purifying it is devested of its fixt Salt Obs 4. and 5. That the Retort must be of Glass and filled up to the neck for the reasons alledged in the precedent Operation Obs 6. That the Phlegm which comes first in the distillation is in a very small quantity and cannot be separated from the Spirit by rectification because this Spirit is so Volatil that it comes of a sudden conjointly with the Phlegm and so the rectification would be unnecessary the Phlegm being in so small a proportion to the Spirit as not to be able to make the last lose any thing of its activity and energy Its Vertues and use This Spirit is Corrosive not only applyed to Warts rotten Flesh and the Gangreen but it corrodes and dissolves Mercury and the other Metals it is often to be preferr'd to Aqua fortis for these two uses or it is not so burning in its action upon the flesh as Aqua fortis and it is much fitter for the dissolutions which are made by it of Mercury and other Metals and Minerals in order to the preparing of some remedy to be taken inwardly as well because pure Niter is an acid aperitive and pure Vitriol is an acid vometive as because Niter being a Sulphureous Salt drawn from temperate Animals and Vitriol a terrestrious Salt drawn from Minerals by their union in the composition of Aqua fortis is produced a malignous quality Nay it is fitter than Aqua fortis for the dissolution of Minerals in order to make Fucuses for the face because the Spirit of Niter applyed to the skin leaves but a little yellow spot which may be easily taken away whereas Aqua fortis leaves a deep orange-spot so sticking and adhering that it can never be taken out but with the loss of the skin from whence we may infer that a Fucus prepared with Aqua fortis should rather black than whiten the skin The marks to distinguish this Spirit are these 1. That it is of the same colour and transparency as the Spirit of Salt 2. That it is very vaporous and stinking coming near the stinking smell of Aqua fortis 3. It is too corrosive and biting to be tasted upon the Tongue but to try its goodness pour out some drops upon a Brass half-peny and if it be right it will presently boil and makes the half-peny stir it produces a blew colour in the said half-peny 4. It corrodes and makes its Linen-stopple look yellow as Aqua fortis uses to do sometimes the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur are sophisticated by putting a little Spirit of Niter or a little Aqua fortis into common Water till there result an acid taste which is not caustick but you shall perceive this cheat if having rubbed a Paper with the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur in one place and the Spirit of Niter and common Water in another place you present the said Paper to the fire for then the place rubb'd with the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur will grow black and break and the place rubb'd with Spirit of Niter in common Water will only grow yellow and not break The Spirit and black Oyl of Vitriol TAke an Earthen-pot unglazed of the Earth they make Crucibles of fill it up to the brim with good green Vitriol set this pot upon a Salt-seller in a great Circulatory fire in two hours time or there abouts your Vitriol having first dissolved into a Liquor will be dryed deflegmated and at last coagulated into a grayish lump then take out your pot let it cool and when cold put your matter into a Brass or Iron Mortar and powder it Take a Glass Retort well luted up to half the neck fill it with the said Vitriol and place it according to Art in a great Reverberatory fire fitting to it a great Receiver Give your fire by degrees coming as soon as you can to the last which continue till you perceive in the top and sides of your Receiver a kind of black Veins that trickle down to the bottom these are the black Oyl which begins to distil Then unlute your Receiver from its Retort and separate by inclination the acid Spirit of Vitriol which hitherto has been distilled and which is of a white and transparent colour like Water and which entered your Receiver in the form of a white Vapour By this time your Vitriol will be calcin'd into a red colour and brought to be a Colcothar which yet retains its black Oyl Which to extract you must again fit the Receiver to its Retort without lute for else the neck of the Retort being exceeding hot would presently break by the approach of the cold and moist Lute continue then your fire and give it in the highest degree for the space of six or eight hours till your Receiver be cold though the fire be vehement under the Retort by that you 'll perceive that the contain'd matter has yielded all its black and thick Oyl Let your fire go out then take out your Retort which by the long violence of the fire will seem somewhat sunk and straitned and in it will remain a Colcothar devested of its phlegm its Spirit and its black Oyl but yet containing the fixed Salt of Vitriol and therefore is not so sharp and acrimonious as the first Colcothar 'T is out of this second Colcothar that you may extract the Caput mortuum of Vitriol by making a Lexivium of the said Colcothar to extract it s fixed Salt Out of one pound of green Vitriol you 'll have nine or ten ounces of Spirit with its Phlegm and half an ounce of black Oyl The acid Spirit of Vitriol contains much Phlegm which came first with it therefore if you desire to have a purified Spirit you must evaporate the Phlegm by putting this Spirit Inflegmated into a Matrass not luted which set upon a Salt-seller in a small Circulatory fire till the whole substance be half diminished and begin to look a little yellowish if you continue this Evaporation any longer your Spirit will become blackish drawing near the colour and acidity of your Oyl of Colcothar If reciprocally with the said black Oyl of Colcothar you desire to make a white acid Spirit do but mingle in a Matrass one dragm of the said Oyl with an ounce of common water then you shall see that the said Oyl will presently go to the bottom and will so heat the neck of the Matrass that you will scarce be able to hold it in your hand Mingle them well by agitation till the water grow blackish then through Paper filtrate the said liquor and there will come a clear acid Spirit as yellow as Gold which will have the same force and virtue as the common Spirit of Vitriol the Paper retaining the black and thick faeces From whence we may conclude that this clear Liquor which we call
Tongs put the head of it into this Brimstone which is in the sand presently the Brimstone will be in a flame therefore have ready a Glass-Bell well proportioned to the bigness of your Pan and with it cover your Pan as soon as the Brimstone begins to take fire and that you may lose nothing of the Vapour stop with Linen the junction of the Bell and Pan from this inflamed Sulphur will rise an abundance of white Vapours which will be converted part of them into acid Spirits which being received in the Pan impregnate the Water and part of them into yellow Flowers of Sulphur which will be found sticking to the sides of the Bell and Pan and will form a little skin upon the superflicies of the Water After a quarter of an hour the Vapours being ceased and condensed into Spirits and Flowers break that skin that the Water may be at liberty to re-impregnate it self with new Spirits at a second flagration then put another spoonful of Sulphur inflame it cover it and in a word do as before continuing this till all your Brimstone be spent When you have done there remains a muddy acid Water into which put all those Flowers of Brimstone which you find sticking to the sides of your Pan or Bell as likewise those that swim upon the Water put them all together into a Matrass of an ordinary size not luted which set upon a Salt-seller in the little Circulatory fire the Phlegm will be evaporated the Flowers will dissolve into the Spirit and the Spirit will wax black then with a wet clout take out your Retort and pour out your Liquor thus hot into a white Earthen Bason The Spirit being cool you 'll find in the bottom the Flowers congealed into a bright yellow lump By this method in one day out of four pound of Sulphur you may draw half an ounce of black Oyl and if you put an ounce of Water upon one dram of this Oyl mingling them well in a Matrass and then filtring them through a course Paper you may have that which is called the Spirit or Acid of Brimstone of a yellow bright transparent colour like Gold Or by another way do but evaporate the two thirds of your pound of Water impregnated with the Spirit of Brimstone and there will remain four ounces of a yellow inflegmated Spirit Obs 1. That we put sand into the little Earthen Cup lest the Brimstone inflamed should break it which it would do were it empty Obs 2. That Water is put into the Pan that the Spirits may be the better gathered without which they would be apt to be consumed to no purpose in the superficies and substance of the said Earthen Pan. Obs 3. That the Matrass in which the Evaporation is performed must be short-neck'd that the phlegm may the easilier evaporate therefore let it be two inches high Obs 4. That we pour the said Spirit hot into a white Basin and not into a glazed one lest it should corrode the Lead of the Vernish and so be weakned and loaden with a blackness which no filtration would be able to take away and the reason why we pour out the Liquor hot is because if we did let it cool the Brimstone would congeal into such a lump as could never be come by without breaking the Matrass Obs 5. That if by this method there is but little Spirit drawn from such a quantity of Sulphur yet by all the other processes you meet with in Authors you shall draw less It s virtue and use It cools and purifies the Blood resists Corruption appeases the Burning Feavers 'T is a very good preservative against the Plague taking three or four drops of it in a glass of water ever morning It is most excellent to touch Venereal Ulcers and Warts it dissolves Pearls and Corral It fixes Mercury but cannot dissolve him no more than the other Metals The Marks by which it is distinguished are the same by which Spirit of Vitriol is known from other Spirits but all the difficulty is to distinguish Spirit of Vitriol from Spirit of Sulphur Spirit of Wine TAke as much good Aqua vitae as will fill your Vesica or Copper body half full set it in a naked Circulatory fire fit to it its cover or Moors-head bordered with its Refrigeratory having before hand put into the Vesica's long neck five or six sponges held up by two sticks set a-cross and kept from falling down or rising up Then to the Moors-head Nose fit the moveable Pipe which shall join it with the long Brass Pipe that goes through the two Hogs-heads of water then starch on long slices of Paper upon all the conjunctions of the Pipes and over the Paper put cloth-ones which bind fast with pack-thread fit your Receiver of glass to the lower end of the long Brass Pipe that goes through the Hogs-heads set your Coals on fire and add some wood to them to make at first a great fire which may raise and distil your Spirit quickly In a very little time it will come not by drops but in a small stream like a Fountain In all the course of this Operation there must be singular care taken that the distillation be equal and moderate so that as soon as you perceive white vapours in the Recipient diminish your fire either by throwing ashes on it or taking a good deal of it away For these white Vapours are the Spirits which come in such an abundance that they have not had time to condense neither in the Moors-head nor in the long Pipe and therefore will easily scape out of your Receiver and so the best of your Spirit will be lost to no purpose besides whensoever the Distillation is performed in too big a stream though there be no Vapours yet diminish your fire But if it should come drop by drop then augment the heat you may take notice that the first quart that comes though excellent and pure yet it is not clear but muddy having contracted a foulness from the sides of the Vessel therefore throw it in again with a Tunnel by the little Pipe which on purpose is in the top of the Vesica and presently stop the said Pipe close with its Woodden stopper the Spirit that shall from henceforth be distilled will be clear and transparent By this method out of thirty quarts of good Aqua vitae you may draw eighteen quarts of good Spirit of Wine in a day and in one only Vesica You must observe often all along your Operation whether your Spirit be well deflegmated which try thus Put as much Gunpowder as you can take up with your two fore-fingers and your thumb into a little spoon which fill with Spirit of Wine then fire it with a Match or lighted Paper for if this Spirit take fire and burn blew till it be consumed and then fire the Gunpowder and that at last there be no mark of any moistness left in the spoon you may be sure your
up to half its neck lest it should break towards the end of the Operation fill it up to the neck with Guaiacum cut either into pieces or shavings place it upon the hollow part of the cover of an Earthen Pot full of ashes which must be set upon the two Iron Barrs that are in a small Reverberatory Furnace lute and stop the gap of the Furnace which is above the neck of the Retort till you have made it even with the top of the Furnace then fit to the neck of your Retort a great Glass Receiver or an Earthen one if you will or a great Pitcher which is easilier made clean because you may put your hand into it even to the bottom lute the said Recipient to the Retort cover the Furnace with its top that is an Earthen Pan turned the inside downwards and with a hole in its middle big enough to pass an Egg through or else with two or three rounds of Bricks as has been described in the great Reverberatory Furnace then put some lighted Coals into your Furnace and give your fire by degrees adding to it after a little while three or four Faggot-sticks yet have a care you do not over-heat your Vessel lest your Receiver break by the violence of the vapours which also may lose themselves through the luted conjunction of both the Vessels the true mark of a fit heat will be if you can endure to lay your hand a pretty while upon the Receiver this distillation is to last eighteen or twenty hours without interruption the Spirit comes first alone and in a Glass Receiver appears in the form of white vapours then the Oyl with the rest of the Spirits comes forth in the same form also and does dissolve into a brown blackish liquor which goes to the bottom of the Receiver for all Spirits and all Oyls do distil in forms of white vapours except Spirit of Niter and Aqua-fortis made with Niter which therefore are called the flying Dragon as well because of their redness as of their malignity The mark that the distillation is ended will be if your Receiver be cold though there be an excessive heat in the Furnace for that is a sign that there comes nothing more into the Receiver When all is cool then unlute the Receiver by wetting the lute with a wet cloath and pour out your Oyl and Spirit of Guaiac together into a glass Tunnel and by one of these two ways separate the Spirit from the Oyl First take a glass Tunnel which hold with one hand and with a finger of the same hand stop its lower orifice then pour in your Liquor the Oyl will presently go to the bottom the Spirit will swim above and upon the surface of the Spirit will swim some black drops of Volatil Oyl of Guaiac Then set a glass Vial under the neck of your Tunnel and let go half your finger which stops the said orifice and so the Oyl will pass into your Viol and when you see that it is almost all passed then stop the orifice again with your finger and pour the flegm or Spirit into another Vial. Do thus by all the spirit and Oyl you have in your Receiver but by this way you will never separate the Oyl from the flegm so well but there will be some in it still Therefore use this second method which will do it entirely and infallibly Take a Coffin of brown Paper wet it with common water or with Spirit of Guaiacum if you have any place it upon a Glass Tunnel and pour into it the Oyl and the spirit together the Spirit being watrish will pass and filtrate through the said Coffin of Paper and the Oyl will remain which afterwards you may easily convey into another Vial by breaking the bottom of your Paper Coffin with a little stick if you do not wet throughly the said Coffin of Paper before you pour into it the Oyl and Spirit the Oyl will stick to the Paper and hinder the filtration of the flegm If your Oyl do not come kindly out of your Receiver because it may be it is cold and so condensed present your Receiver to the fire to dissolve your Oyl will be black and stinking as the Oyl of Jet and your spirit will be of a brown colour Out of one pound of Guaiacum you 'l draw about one ounce and a half of Oyl and ten ounces of Spirit and there will remain about four ounces of Coals in your Retort you may kindle this Coal and burn it to ashes and of these ashes make a Lixivium and out of this Lixivium draw the Salt of Guaiacum to the same uses and purposes as the Oyl and Extract If you desire to have a Spirit of Guaiacum purified from the greatest part of its flegm and corrected of its stench you must rectifie it in a stone Cucurbite or glazed one with a glass head in a Sand furnace the insipid flegm will come first that you may throw away then the Spirit will come very acid which keep for those uses which we shall speak of anon To make the Extract of Guaiacum put some Oyl of Guaiacum to evaporate and thicken into the form of an Extract into a Cup or a Sand-fire or else draw the tincture of the Oyl of Guaiacum with Spirit of Wine and so evaporate it to the consistence of an Extract Obs 1. That for this Distillation we use a stone Retort because it is not necessary to use a glass one which would be dearer and the Spirit is not corrosive enough to corrode this Stone-Metal as the Spirits of Niter Salt or Vitriol would do besides that the necks of your glass Retorts are so narrow that the chips of Guaiacum can hardly be got into them Obs 2. That if you use pieces of the heart of the Wood which are hardest and by consequent fuller of Oyl you will obtain more Oyl than from the shaving and there is no danger in filling the belly of your Retort with them because it is not a body apt to swell and run over Obs 3. That Guaiacum yields a good deal of Oyl and Spirit because it is full of Sulphur and Mercury the Wood yields better than the Bark and the Wood in little pieces yields more than in shavings or great cuts for by their thickness they retain more of Sulphur and Mercury This Oyl and Spirit are very Salt and therefore the Wood is heavie for the Salts give the heaviness to Mixtes The Oyl is black and foetid because it has been distilled in a naked Fire without any intermedium and it is heavie because of its Salt as also sharp for the same reason The Heart of the Wood yields more Oyl than that part which is near the Bark which you may perceive by the eye for the heart is blackish and the other is yellowish like Box which is the European Guaiacum It s Vse and Vertues The Spirit is somewhat drying and detersive it is excellent for Burnings and old
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-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
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
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
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
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
Spirit of Vitriol is nothing but a small portion of the true Spirit mingled with a great deal of Phlegm and that this black Liquor which we call Oyl is indeed a pure Spirit of Vitriol entirely dephlegmated but because of its Sulphureous blackness and thickness it is improperly called Oyl being somewhat unctuous to the feeling though it be not at all inflameable as all true Oyls are Obs 1. That you must dephlegmate the Vitriol and powder it well before you put it into your Retort else you would not draw off the Spirit but the Phlegm alone for the matter would coagulate in the bottom of the Vessel into a lump which sticking close to the sides of the Retort would so retain all the Spirits that a strong fire of forty hours lasting would scarce be able to reduce this mass to powder therefore it is better to dephlegmate and reduce to powder your Vitriol before it be put into the Retort Obs 2. That we give no Intermedium to Vitriol as we do to Salt and Niter because being a terrestrious Salt it cannot be melted and by consequent cannot fix and retain its Spirits within its self so that provided it be dephlegmated the Spirits are easily raised and distilled by the violence of the fire Obs 3. That you need not fill your Retort up to the neck with your matter because the Spirit of Vitriol having not so much tenuity as the Spirits of Salt and Niter is not in danger of re-impregnating and fixing its self in its own masse Obs 4. That the Retort must be of Glass for the reason alledged in the Spirit of Salt Obs 5. That you chuse good Vitriol not too dry for it will yield more Spirit and Oyl therefore that which comes from Germany and the Low Countries is better than the Roman Vitriol for this effect It s virtue and effects Both the white Spirit and the black Oyls are Acids which pleasantly and excellently do cool desopilate and resist all corruption and therefore they are frequently and with good success made use of for the Liver and Kidneys in burning and Pestilentious Feavers The dose is five or six drops of the Spirit two or three of the Oyl either in Water Broth or White Wine It serves for the dissolution of Metals and in Surgery it is used either pure or mingled with a little water or Mel rosatum to touch the ulcers of the mouth The first and second Colcothar are both an excellent Astringent given in violent Diarrhoea's Dysenteries and Hepatick Fluxes or mingled with some unguents it stops bleeding Wounds The Marks to distinguish the Oyl of Vitriol from other are these 1. It is very black 2. It is not only acid but caustick 3. It is very heavy 4. It seizes the nose with a strong Vapour when new made and in all these four conditions it is like the Oyl of Sulphur As for the Spirit it is known by its pleasant acidity by its yellowish colour and because being old it yields no smell no more than Spirit of Sulphur neither doth it corrode or make its stopple yellow the Spirits of Niter and Aqua fortis are distinguished from it by their smell and because they corrode and change the colour of their stopples Spirit of Salt is known from it because it has a brackish taste and smells strong when new being much more intolerable and unpleasant than Spirit of Vitriol Aqua Fortis TAke a Glass-Retort luted up to half its neck put in it equal parts of common Niter and green Vitriol not dephlegmated but they must be beaten to powder in an Iron Mortar before fill but two thirds of your Retort leaving a third empty for else the Vitriol being melted by the Niter would it may be rise and run in substance into the Recipient before the distillation of the Aqua fortis could be begun Set your Retort in a little Reverberatory or in a little Circulatory fire a great Reverberatory being not so necessary here because the Niter is of it self so volatil and having melted the Vitriol it makes it likewise capable of yielding its Spirits without a very violent degree of heat Give your fire by degrees continuing the first degree till the phlegm which will appear in a white vapour in the Recipient be distilled otherwise if at first you did give a great heat the Niter and Vitriol together would boil over your Vessel and in their own substance run into the Recipient When your Recipient begins to fill with red Vapours which is the sign of the Spirit 's coming forth augment your fire and cover your Retort with Coals if it be in a Circulatory fire continue this heat till your Recipient begin to lose something of the brightness of its red colour and till it become cold though the fire be vehement under the Retort then the matter has sent forth all its Spirits and you shall find these red Vapours dissolved all into a white clear Liquor as water Out of one pound of common Niter and as much of green Vitriol undephlegmated you may have sixteen ounces of Aqua fortis Obs 1. That though the Spirit of Vitriol cannot be drawn from Vitriol undephlegmated yet Aqua fortis may because being in company with the Niter it cannot after the distillation of its Phlegm coagulate in a lump which might fix and retain its Spirits the Niter by its opening Sulphur keeping the Vitriol porous and vaporous Obs 2. That Aqua fortis may be very well made with dephlegmated Vitriol and fine Niter and then it is so strong and corrosive that it is Aqua regalis and can dissolve Gold and Silver but because we do not ordinarily need in Chymistry so strong a dissolvent for the frequent dissolutions we make of Mercury of Tin of Bismuth and of Silver we are content with Aqua fortis prepared as has been taught It s virtue and use This is a very caustick burning water some do touch Warts and Corns with it but it is dangerous so to do and our Chymistry will afford us gentler and fitter remedies which I shall set down hereafter It serves to dissolve your Metals and Minerals the Dyers use it to give a strength and penetration to their Colours The Marks to distinguish it are 1. It is yellowish 2. Stinks very much 3. It yellows and corrodes its stopple and the bladder and pack-thread that are employed about the stopping of it 4. If you pour a drop or two of it upon a Brass-half-peny it makes it stir and look green The Spirit and black Oyl of Sulphur TAke a great Stone or unglazed Earthen Pan put it into a pound of common water in the middle of this Pan set a little Stone-pot and upon this Pot place a little flat Earthen Cup full of sand in the mean time reduce into powder four pound of Brimstone and of this put one spoonful into the middle of the sand then take a great Coach-wheel Nail and heat it red hot and with a pair of
luted to half the neck leaving a gap to look through at place it upon a Round in a small circulary Furnace keeping the neck of your Retort streight and not leaning on one side till your Mercury be dissolved in the Spirit of Niter which you will easily perceive through the gap you left when you luted your Glass When your Mercury is quite dissolved then to go the shorter way to work evaporate the Spirit of Niter your Retort being in the same posture still but if you mean to draw off the said Spirit of Niter then set your Retort in a distilling posture and fit to it a Recipient continuing your fire in the same degree as before When the exsiccation or drying of your Mercury shall be thus performed take off your Vessel and let it cool then pour into it an ounce of Oyl of Sulphur upon the white matter which remains in the bottom and then set it again upon the same fire till all the Oyl of Sulphur be likewise evaporated reiterate three or four times this cohobation or rectification with the same proportion of Oyl of Sulphur to the end that at last it may fire the Mercury This done break your vessel and in the bottom you will find a white lump which reduce to powder and upon this powder pour warm water which incontinent will become yellow reiterate this dulcoration or sweetning till at last your water come away as insipid as it was poured on then separate by inclination the water which will not be tinged as the other was and after dry your matter gently in a sand heat and there will remain at last a powder as yellow as Gold upon this pour some spponfuls of Spirit of Wine and set it on fire doing thus three or four times to sweeten your Mercury the more It will be as yellow and as bright as Gold and of no taste and so fix that being put into a Crucible and melted in a Wine Furnace it will still keep the consistence of a yellow powder without losing but very little of its weight which is a sign that it is well fixt Obs 1. That your Mercury for this Operation must be well purified because the intention is to fix it which could scarce be done if it were impure and mingled with Lead besides that being designed for a purgative in a very small Dose it would scarce answer your intention you will be able to judge if it be well purified or no by putting some of it into a Stone-cup for if when you put a finger into it it does not hang and make a long thred as a syrup would do but is short then it is good If it be impure you may purifie it by straining it through the Leather called Chamy for the Lead if there be any will remain in the leather or else distill your Mercury in a Glass Retort luted in a fire of suppression and the Mercury will remain in the bottom of the Retort Obs 2. That we use Spirit of Niter and not Aqua fortis to dissolve the Mercury because the said Spirit being less harmful and corrosive than Aqua fortis ought to be imployed in all preparations of Remedies that are to be taken inwardly besides that if we had employed Aqua fortis then the Mercury must necessarily after its dissolution have become red as it shall be taught in the Chapter of the Red Precipitate hereafter and no other Spirit would be corrosive enough to dissolve the Mercury but Spirit of Niter Obs 3. That we use a greater quantity of Spirit of Niter than of Mercury because experience teaches us that the dissolvant must be in greater quantity to dissolve such a dose of Mercury Obs 4. That the said dissolution requires no other than a small circulary fire for if the heat were greater the Spirit would evaporate and be gone in stead of doing its work and for the same reason we keep the Retort with its neck upwards that so if the Spirit be raised yet it may fall down again and dissolve the Mercury Obs 5. That if you draw off by distillation that said Spirit of Niter it may be useful to you in frictions for the Itch the Scab and such like diseases having lost its force which would have consum'd proud flesh excrescences c. Obs 6. That the Mercury being dissolved and calcin'd Philosophically by the Spirit of Niter after the exsiccation and evaporation of the said Spirit the Calx of the Mercury is white because the Niter being also white by nature cannot with a small fire colour any body that is dissolved in it but the Aqua fortis makes the bodies grow red because of the Vitriol which is in it Obs 7. That upon the Calx of Mercury we pour Spirit of Sulphur divers times that so we may intirely fix the said Mercury because the spirit of Sulphur is of it self fix and farr from evaporating when it is put in a Matrass upon the fire it fixes part of it into a very pricking sharp Salt and therefore this Spirit has power to fix all Metals The black Spirit of Vitriol is not proper to fix because it is of its nature volatil and would evaporate all away as for its salt at least and there would remain nothing but a Caput mortuum and observe by the by that Mercury passes here through two the noblest Operations of Chymistry for first it is dissolved by the Spirit of Niter and then coagulated by the Spirit of Sulphur Obs 8. That by pouring warm water upon this calx it presently grows yellow because the Oyl of Sulphur has communicated to it the Sulphureous yellow colour and the water being actually warm dissolves and extracts the Salts who were incorporated in the said Calx Obs 9. That by burning Spirit of Wine over the said Mercury you dulcifie and sweeten it and make its purgative vertue gentler because the burning Spirit of Wine penetrating the said Mercury carries away with it in the burning all the Venemous volatil Salt that could be left Obs 10. That Turbith Mineral is nothing but Mercury dissolved and calcin'd by the Spirit of Niter then fixt by the Spirit of Sulphur then devested of the salts of its dissolvants by reiterated lotions and freed from its malignous Sulphur by the flagrations of the Spirit of Wine It s Vse and Vertue It purges strongly and often provokes Vomit from three to six grains it cures the Pox without fluxing because being fixt it cannot rise to the mouth as all other preparations of Mercury that have not been fixt do It is nevertheless very violent because it is not so fixt but there yet remains a little un-fixt mercurial Salt and Sulphur who are sharpened by the Spirits of Niter and Brimstone and indeed if all of it were fixt then nothing of it could be dissolved in the stomach and so would produce no other effect than as much Gold in powder also being not altogether Volatil its Vertue is less harmful The White
enough it is always dry if it be kept well stopp'd in a glass Vial but if it be too dry it cannot dissolve upon the skin therefore while you prepare all things for its application put it to soak in a spoonful of water The Magistery or Precipitate of Bismuth SEt a Cucurbit Glass Bell or Head upon any thing within a Chimney that so the infectious vapours may not poyson the room and offend by their stench the Artist and Spectators put into your Vessel four ounces of Bismuth well powdered in a Brass Mortar pour upon it one or two spoonfuls of Spirit of Nitar which presently will produce an ebullition and a stinking infectious smoak when they are past pour on again a like quantity of Spirit of Niter which will cause the same effect continue this till you have spent eight ounces of Spirit of Niter if you pour on too much at a time your ebullition will be so violent that all your matter will run over your Vessel and be lost and the smoak will be so thick that by its stinking red vapours it will go near to do you some mischief When you have thus spent all your Spirit of Niter though after the last Projection all your Bismuth be not dissolved and devour'd by the said Spirit nevertheless separate by inclination your dissolution while it is warm from that part of the Bismuth which remains undissolv'd in the bottom of your Vessel and you must pour this Dissolution into a precipitatory Vessel of Glass or white-ware and there it will be congealed into a thousand little transparent white Cristals In the mean time pour by little and little and at divers times some new Spirit upon the Bismuth left in your vessel to the end you may dissolve all the pure and good Bismuth that is left in this lump for there will remain at last a few black Faeces which cannot be dissolved Separate by inclination this second Dissolution in another Glass or white-ware Vessel and there let it Crystallize as the former then take all your Crystals and mingle them together in a Glass Bell and there melt them with a gentle heat and when they are melted pour upon them a quart of Sea-water actually cold which will precipitate them into a white Curd which Curd will by little and little dissolve into a white powder then separate by inclination this first Water pour on more and so continue till your powder be entirely sweetned nay do it three or four times after that your water comes away insipid for if there did remain the least Acrimony in this powder it would wrinkle the Face which it ought to whiten filtrate this powder through a white Paper and let it dry upon the said Paper in the shade taking care to cover it lest the dust should come at it and do not dry it by the Fires side or in the Sun-beams for then it would return to brown-blackish colour When it is very dry put it into a glass Vial well stopped and you have the true Magistery or precipitate of of Bismuth Obs That Bismuth is a kind of Marcassite of Silver and that therefore it is almost as good as Silver to make by its calcination a good Fucus or Cosmetick for it is certain that the Precipitate of Silver made in the same way as this does much excel the Precipitate of Bismuth Obs 2. That to make the Dissolution of Bismuth in Spirit of Niter you must take a Vessel very broad towards the top and therefore a glass Bell is the fittest to the end that the venemous vapours that rise out of the matter may the sooner and the easilier be gone therefore in a Matrass these vapours being streightned would re-impregnate themselves and make your matter yellow instead of white Then your vessel must be Glass or White-ware for in an earthen glaz'd Vessel your powder would grow black because it would dissolve the Lead of the Vernish and a stone or unglazed one be less fit because the Spirit of Niter might lose and insinuate it self in the pores of the said Earth Obs 3. That though Aqua-fortis can dissolve Bismuth yet we use it not because by its Vitriol the Calx of the Bismuth would be so blacked as to be useless in the design of whitening the skin Obs 4. That your dissolution being poured into a glass or white ware vessel does there congeal into a thousand little white Chrystals transparent and saltish because that the Spirit of Niter being loaden with the quantity of a Metalick body Christallises as Metals use to do after their dissolution These Crystals are white because that the Bismuth is as white as Silver and they melt by a gentle fire because they were congealed by cold Obs 5. That Sea water does precipitate dissolved Bismuth in a white curd and white powder because that the Sea-salt which makes the Sea-water being contrary to the Salt which makes the Spirit of Niter attakes and fights with it and so the Niter being weakned because that in this conflict its sharpest part evaporates away le ts go the Bismuth which it had seized upon and immediately the said Bismuth falls into a white curd and powder 'T is true that the common water by moistening the Spirit of Niter does much weaken it but if in this water there had not been some Sea-salt the Calx of Bismuth would never have been well separated from its dissolvant neither would it have been precipitated to the bottom of the Vessel Obs 6. That you must dry this Magistery in the shade by little and little and not in haste or by the fire side or in the Sun-beams lest it recover its brown dark colour for the actual heat either of the Fire or the Sun would revive in it a black burned Sulphur which sticks to the surface of this remedy from whence Ladies that use it may learn that they must by a double reason keep it in the shade as well to conserve their own natural beauty as the artificial beauty which they borrow from this Magistery Obs 7. That the Precipitate or Magistery of Bismuth is nothing but a Calx of Bismuth calcin'd Philosophically by the Spirit of Niter and then precipitated by the contrariety of the Sea-water and sweetned by reiterated Lotions It s Vse and Vertues It is in Physick an excellent desicative for Ulcers as well as the Magistery of Saturn and it is likewise a most excellent Cosmetick or Fucus to make the face and hands white and fair either by rubbing them with the powder alone which insinuates its self into the pores of the skin or else by applying a Pomatum made of one dragm of the said precipitate and two dragms of Vnguentum Pomatum which you may prepare if you will with one ounce of white Virgin Wax and four ounces of Oyl of sweet Almonds or Acorns or of Beans or of the four cold seeds The Spirit Oyl and Extract of Guaiacum TAke a great Stone Retort lute it every where
Ulcers washing them with some Lint dipped in it besides if you put five or six drops of it in a bottle of Sudorifick Decoction it will work a greater effect than if there were a great quantity of Guaiacum in the said Decoction because this Spirit has the force of the Guaiacum and besides much more activity and penetration by the tenuity of its Spirituous substance The Oyl of Guaiacum is very drying detersive and cleansing it therefore cures rarely well old putrid hard Ulcers the Gangrene and the Caries or Rot of the Bones Besides you may give by the Mouth two or three drops of it in a spoonful of Cinamon Water for a windy or bilious Colick The Extract of Guaiacum is very drying and Sudorifick and it is given in form of Pils for Veneral Diseases The Spirit of Box. The Oyl of Ash c. THe Spirit and Oyl of the Wood of Box of the Wood and Bark of Ash as likewise of all other Woods and Aromatick Barks are drawn in the same way as the Spirit and Oyl of Guaiacum The Wood of Box yields more Spirits a great deal than the Wood of Guaiacum but it yields so inconsiderable a proportion of Oyl that out of four pound of Wood you will have but one ounce of Oyl though four pound of Spirit of Flegm because this Wood is fuller of Sulphur than Guaicum but is not so heavie nor so Salt It s Spirit has almost the same vertues as the Spirit of Guaiacum the Oyl likewise has the same vertues with the Oyl of Guaiacum but is most particularly excellent for all Contusions Ulcers pain and rottenness of the Teeth The Wood of Ash yields about as much Spirit and Oyl as Box its Bark yields but little Spirit and no Oyl at all It s Spirit is an excellent topical Remedy for deafness and tingling of the Ears because it does incide and resolve the humours and flatuosities which lie in the Meatus auditorius and in the first concavity of the Ear. It s Oyl is also most excellent for the Rot or Caries of the Bones and for the pain of the Teeth it appeases the pain of the Kidneys and Spleen if the said parts be anointed with it The stinking or foetide Oyl of Cloves TAke Cloves whose tincture has been already extracted by Spirit of Wine for it would be ill Husbandry to use others and so lose their Aromatick tincture particularly since when they have yielded their tincture they are never the worse for this Operation put what quantity you please of them into a glass Retort well luted place it upon a Round hollow earthen Pan in the Furnace of a great circulatory Fire fitting to it a great glass Receiver give at first a very strong violent Fire and continue it till there appear no more vapours in the Receiver these vapours are white and do turn into black caustick stinking Oyl Out of one pound of Cloves you may have about two ounces of Oyl and eight ounces of Flegm Obs 1. That we use here a glass Retort luted because that stone Retorts are too big for the small quantity of Cloves which is ordinarily us'd in this process Obs 2. That you need not care if you fill your Retort with Cloves because they do not swell no more than Woods or Barks you may also fill it half full Obs 3. That Cloves contain much Sulphur and sharp Salt from whence it comes that they yield much Oyl and that very sharp and caustick It s Vse and Vertues This Oyl being very sharp and biting is most excellent for Ulcers in the Pox and all other putrid and venemous ones as also it is good to exfoliate or open the superficies of rotten Bones and for the Gangrene It s Spirit is acid and very good in Tettars or Ring-worms The Oyl of Jet TAke some pieces of Jet put them into a glass Retort well luted filling it up to the neck place it upon a Round hollow earthen Pan in a circulatory Fire and fit to it a great Receiver which lute well to the neck of the Retort give at first a small circulary Fire then the great circulary Fire and then a Fire of Suppression there will appear in the Receiver an abundance of white vapours which will dissolve into Spirit and Oyl This Operation must last ten or twelve hours with a continual Fire and four pound of Jet in your Retort out of one pound you will have about two ounces of Oyl and ten of Spirit Separate by a glass Tunnel the Oyl that goes to the bottom from the Spirit which will swim above and keep them apart in two glass Vials upon the Spirit you will perceive swimming divers thick drops of Volatil Oyl of Jet which you may leave with the said Spirit Obs 1. That we use here a Glass Retort luted for the same reason alledged in the Chapter of the Oyl of Cloves Obs 2. That we fill the Retort without any intermedium because Jet is a dry substance which does not swell no more than other Woods and Roots Obs 3. That Jet is a Rocky Stone which is drawn in great quantities out of some Quarrys near Tholous in France and this Stone is very bituminous having much Sulphur a good deal of Salt and very little flegm from whence it proceeds that it yields a good deal of Oyl moderately sharp and heavy It s Vse and Vertues The Oyl is most excellent for the suffocations of the Matrix because of its extraordinary ill smell being much more stinking than the Oyl of Guaiac or Karabe it serves also to dissolve all bruises and contusions of the feet proceeding from walking too much the flegm has the same but less vertue than the Oyl The Oyl of Mirrha and other Gums TAke a glass Retort well luted fill it half full of Mirrha broken into lumps place it in the Furnace of a circulatory fire Fit to it a great Receiver of Glass and give the fire by degrees there will rise an abundance of white vapours which in the Receiver will dissolve into a flegm and an Oyl this Operation will last five or six hours Out of one pound of Mirrha you will have seven or eight ounces of Oyl and five or six of flegm separate by a Glass Tunnel the Oyl from the flegm Obs 1. That we use here a Glass Retort well luted for the reasons alledged in the distillation of the stinking Oyl of Cloves Obs 2. That we fill the Retort but half full because that the Myrrha does swell a little being heated and so if the Retort were full might run over in substance yet because it is a rosinous dry Gum it is not necessary to give it any intermedium Obs 3. That Mirrha is a Gumme Rosin having much Salt Sulphur and flegm and therefore yields a good deal of Oyl which is very bitter and heavy as also a great deal of flegm It s Vse and Vertues This Oyl is very detersive because of its great bitterness and
and Vertues It is a most excellent Balsamum dr●wn from Volatils it is anodyne astringent agglutinative and mundificative and therefore most excellent for all burnings and fresh wounds as also for the cleavings of womens breasts and likewise for the descent of the bowels by anointing the part then applying a bandage or truss There is another way of making this Oyl viz to heat your yolkes in the Pan till they begin to grow red and to burn then put them into a coorse linnen cloth Oyl'd with Oyl of Almonds and so put this cloth under a press and press out the Oyl but this Oyl has not the force of the other drawn by the method we have already set down The Oyl of Karabe and the Ambred Spirit of Wine REduce into a gross powder some yellow Amber you may make use of the pieces which the workmen that work in Amber pare off and you shall have it cheaper than at the Droguists put four ounces of it in a glass Retort well luted and pour upon it eight ounces of Spirit of wine so as your Retort be not above half full set your Retort on a Round hollow earthen Pan in the circulary Furnace and fit to it a good ample glass receiver which you must not lute to the Retort lest the vapours of the spirit of wine which cannot be contained in the Receiver should break it but be careful in luting the gap of the furnace about the neck of the Retort lest the flame should reach the Receiver and there set on fire the vapours of the Spirit of Wine and from thence the flame would get into the Retort If such a thing should happen the remedy would be to stop presently the mouth of the Retort with some Lute to choak the flame Encrease your Fire by degrees and when you perceive that the Receiver is not very warm then encrease your Fire more and give a Fire of Suppression to the end you may drive out the Oyl of Amber together with the Spirit of Wine continue your Fire till you perceive no more clouds in your Receiver for that is a sign that all the Oyl is extracted and distilled from the Amber you will find two ounces of black Oyl of Carabe or Amber and eight ounces of Spirit of Wine impregnated with the red Tincture of the said Karabe separate by a glass Tunnel the Oyl from the Spirit Obs 1. That we distil Amber with Spirit of Wine to the end we may have the vertue of the Amber in a higher degree for penetration and less stinking It may be distilled all alone and without intermedium because that though it be a bituminous Body nevertheless it is so dry that it does not swell in the Retort but when it is distilled alone its Oyl is as black as Jet and much of a worse smell and cannot become yellow but by reiterated rectifications Obs 2. That if upon the said Oyl of Amber you put Spirit of Wine it will presently be tinged with it and will have the same vertue as the Spirit of Wine that has been distilled with Amber Obs 3. That Amber is a bitumen so oylous that it is almost all Oyl and contains but very few faeces since out of one pound of Amber you may draw fourteen ounces of a black Oyl insomuch that it is nothing but a bituminous Oyl congealed by a little terrestrial substance It s Vse and Vertues The Oyl of Amber is very bitter and stinking and therefore excellent in the suffocations of the Matrix either taken inwardly in the quantity of three of four drops in some appropriated water or else smelt to or anointed upon the Temples it is most excellent in old Wounds and particularly of the nervous parts because of its detersive balsamick vertue The Spirit of Wine ambred or tinged by yellow Amber is likewise a most excellent Remedy taken in the same way for the suffocations of the Mother and for the falling Sickness It is besides a most excellent exteriour Remedy for the Palsie the Sciatica the Cold Gout all cold Fluxions and all bruises of the Nerves And this because of the great tenuity and penetration of its substance and its resolutive and balsamick vertue but when you do rub any affected part with this Remedy before the Fire have a care you come not too near lest the Fire should catch hold of and burn the party The Oyl of Camphire PUt two ounces of Camphire slightly powdered into a Matrass of an ordinary size and pour upon it four ounces of spirit of Niter shake your Vessel gently for half a quarter of an hour to the end that this agitation may whet the Spirit and make it operate the sooner upon the said Camphire then let them stand together far from the Fire within two hours the Spirit will dissolve the Camphire without any sensible ebullition or smoak and there will swim upon the Spirit a clear transparent Oyl Separate by the glass Tunnel the said Spirit which will be at the bottom and will have lost a good part of its caustick Acrimony keep your Oyl in a glass Vial well stopped Obs 1. That this Oyl of Camphire is nothing but Camphire dissolv'd by Spirit of Niter for if you throw a little Water upon this Oyl the Camphire will presently be coagulated into its first white consistence and smell because that the water by weakning the Spirit of Niter which kept the Camphire in dissolution makes it lose its hold and so the Camphire precipitates to the bottom Obs 2. That of all the Gums and Rosins none but Camphire does melt into Oyl in its dissolution by Spirit of Niter which may extract the tincture of the other Gums but cannot dissolve them It s Vse and Vertues are to exfoliate the Rot of the Bones by the strong penetration and dryness of both the Spirit of Niter and the Camphire therefore is it most excellent wherewith to touch the Nerves that are bare and naked in wounds for it consumes gently the sharp humour which falls upon them and makes the said wounds most grievous and by its own ●nodyne and mollifying vertue of the Camphire it takes away a great deal of the pain of the said Nerves The Spirit of Wine Campherised PUt as much Camphire as you please into a Matrass pour upon it Spirit of VVine till it be four fingers above your matter fit to this Matrass another little one and so make a double vessel lute them well together with slices of Paper place your Vessel in a Sand-Furnace and there let it stand till the Camphire be entirely dissolved in the Spirit of VVine the Spirit will then be clear and transparent as before and the Camphire will have a pleasant smell There is nothing to be said about the dissolution of Camphire by Spirit of VVine since Camphire is a kind of Gum-Rosin and that Spirit of VVine has the vertue of dissolving all Gums by the homogeneity of its substance and the tenuity of its parts It
humours in Ulcers resists corruption drys them and cicatrises them It serves also for mealy Ring-worms for the Itch Scales and Erisypelases for Inflammations but you must have a care to make it more or less sharp according to the nature of the distemper and the sensibility of the part you intend to apply it to which to do you need only put more or less common water according as you will have it more or less acrimonious for the force of this water is in its Salt which you cannot sweeten but by encreasing the dose of common water and diminishing that of the Salt Therefore it is but trifling to make two or three Lime waters one after another upon the same Lime To make the Phagedenick water put two pound of the said Quick-lime Water into a Glass Bell or an Earthen white Ware Pan and put to it from half a dragm to a dragm of Corrosive Sublimate well powdered in an Earthen white Ware Dish with an Earthen Pestle This Water and the Sublimate after the first stirring of them together will become presently of an Orange colour the Sublimate will go to the bottom and is called the Orange-Sublimate If you have a desire to make your Phagedenick Water weaker pour upon it two pounds more of Lime Water then the water and the Sublimate will change their Orange colour into a Lemmon keep this water together with its Sublimate in a Glass Vial well stopped for your use Obs 2. That the Sublimate from white becomes yellow or orange colour when mixt with the Lime water because that those Sulphureous Salts of which the Corrosive Sublimate is not devested being to engage with the Salt of the Lime are quickened and so revive their colour in the conflict so much as to communicate their tincture to the VVater and Sublimate It s Vse and Vertues In this VVater we dip Linnen and apply it to old rotten Ulcers full of frothy flesh to consume the ill flesh correct the putrefaction cleanse and produce better flesh and at last dry them and bring them to cicatrize The Magistery of Coral The Salt of Coral TAke as much as you please of red Coral that which is in little branches is the best beat it to a fine powder in a Brass Mortar and put it into a Glass Stone or VVhite-ware Vessel pour upon it Spirit of Sulphur two or three fingers high above your Matter let them stand together far from the fire and there the Coral will dissolve while it dissolves there will be an ebullition with a little noise which ceasing marks to you that the Spirit is loaden with as much of the Coral as it is able to dissolve and it has lost its great acidity and sharpness Pour off by inclination this dissolution and put it into a Vessel apart then pour new Spirit upon the Faeces and continue so doing till you have dissolved all the Coral This done put all your dissolutions together into a Glass Bell and pour upon them cold water in such quantity and so often till at last your water come away without any taste filterate that which remains through a Coffin of white Paper upon which let it dry or make Trochisks of it as has been taught in the Chapter of the Diaphoretick Antimony Obs 1. That to make your dissolutions you must not take an earthen glazed Pan lest your Spirit of Sulphur should spend its force upon the glazing and black and spoyl your Magistery nor you must not take a Vessel of potters earth unglazed because that this earth being porous would imbibe and consume the Spirit in its porosities now your Stone Vessels are of a thick compact Matter and your White-ware is a kind of glass Obs 2. That instead of Spirit of Sulphur you may use Spirit of Vitriol but because Vitriol naturally blacks all it comes near your Magistery will not be so white you may also make use of distilled Vinegar or juyce of four Lemmons but we do not because we should need too great a a quantity and so it would prove dearer and your Operation would only be longer but not better Obs 3. That the Magisteries of Crabs eyes Pearls Bezoard mother of Pearl are all made the same way as the Magistery of Coral yet we shall give a description of some of them by another method Obs 4. That both the Magistery and the Salt of Coral are nothing but a Calx of Coral or a Philosophick calcination of it by the corrosion of the Spirit of Sulphur all the difference that is between the Magistery and the Sulphur is that the Magistery is a Calx slackened washed and sweetened by common water and so freed from the acrimony of the Salt of Sulphur whereas the Salt of Coral is a Calx yet impregnated with some rest of Spirit of Sulphur incorporated in it by crystallization or not driven away by the fire in the drying from whénce it proceeds that the Magistery is infipid but the Salt of Coral is acid and biting upon the Tongue and from thence it has the name of Salt though in effect it be no salt for it is not to be dissolved in water and is properly a Stone salted by the impregnation with the Spirit of Sulphur for if you go about to dissolve it there will be in the water nothing but some Spirit of Sulphur so that if you continue sweetning this Salt you will at last make the Magistery of Coral of it It s Vse and Vertues The Magistery and Salt of Coral have the same vertues with pure Coral but they are exalted because the body of Coral being opened is more penetrating and so fitter to carry its astringent corroborative faculty to the remotest parts of the body yet it is certain that there where the design is only to take away the Acrimony of those humours which do corrode the Stomach and Intestines there I say ordinary Coral well powdered is better than its Magistery because that the Chymical Operation will be performed in the body with more benefit by those corrosive sharp humours which meeting with the Coral fall to dissolving of it and so dull their own Acrimony which is the most malignous thing in the body We see nevertheless by experience too that if upon the Magistery of Coral you pour new Spirit of Sulphur or of some other Acid there will be a more sudden and stronger ebullition though it last not so long as in the first dissolution of Coral and therefore the serous sharp Humours of the body may produce the same effect upon the Magistery But the Dissolvant meeting not with so much resistance in Coral already opened and calcin'd as in natural Coral does not work with so much force and therefore dulls not its activity nor loses so much of its Acrimony after the dissolution The Balsam of Saint John 's Wort compounded drawn by the Spirit of Wine Put into a Matrass five or six ounces of Spirit of Wine put to it Myrrhe Aloes and Sanguis
with the Essence of Juniper it may augment and encrease the quantity of the said Essence and yet not change its qualities but if you should put more than three or four ounces of this Spirit on a peck of Berries the smell of the Turpentine would predominate and so spoil your Essence thus the Provensals prepare and multiply their Essences and by affording them cheap make them become common But I could wish that they would leave off sophisticating them and sell them as dear as they stand them in and are really worth particularly those Essences that are to be taken inwardly but the covetousness of those that sell and the sparing way of the buyers will never give way to this Observe That when you have put to your Berries the Spirit of Turpentine well rectified the first liquor that comes is the said Spirit impregnated with the oyly Essence of your Juniper Berries Obs 2. That there are two ways to separate the oyly Essence from its flegm The first is by a glass Tunnel or a Coffin of brown Paper wet before hand with common water or with the Spirit of your Berries as it has been said before only observe that most of the Essences do swim upon their flegm and therefore that in separating them by the glass Tunnel the first thing that runs out must be the flegm and by the Coffin 't is also the flegm that goes through the Oyl remains which you draw out by making a hole in your Paper Coffin towards the bottom and holding a glass Vial under to receive your Oyl The second way is to put into a glass Matrass with a short neck all the flegm with which the Oyl is distilled and then make a rowl of Cotton like the Wick of a Candle of which put one end into your Matrass to make it touch the said Essence and let the other end hang into a glass Vial tied with a pack-thred to the neck of the Matrass your Essence will by little and little imbibe the Cotton and at last run quite through it till it come out at the other end and fall by drops into your Vial. Obs 3. That the Balsamick and Aromatick Essence or Oyl of Juniper as of all other Balsamicks and Aromaticks is nothing but the subtlest part of its Sulphur and Volatil Salt because of its Sulphur it retains the smell of the Berries and the yellow colour of their Tincture and because of its volatil Salt it retains the taste and Acrimony of the said Berries in these two the Salt and Sulphur consists the excellence of this simple but because the Oyl of Juniper has but little Salt therefore it swims upon its flegm and having been drawn by common water it has preserved the natural smell savour and tincture of the Berries and thus it happens to all drogues of this nature for if you distil them in a naked fire without water there will come from them a stinking caustick Oyl as we have taught in the Chapter of the distillation of the stinking Oyl of Cloves But before this stinking Oyl we do ordinarily draw from Aromatick drogues by the intermedium of water all their Essence and Balsamick Oyl which is a kind of Virgin Oyl being the purest part of them After its extraction there remains yet in the Faeces a thick gross terrestrial saltish Oyl which we draw without intermedium by distillation ad latus in a glass Retort luted in a naked fire and because this Oyl is drawn without intermedium in a naked fire and by the combustion and flagration of the said Drugs therefore it is black and stinking and of an ill taste and much more caustick than the Aromatick Oyl which contains less of the Volatil Salt the flegm having shared a good part of the said Salt with the Oyl but in the foetid Oyl the Volatil Salt is as it were shut in and not carried away by its flegm whereof it has very little If you rectifie your Essence of Juniper in a little glass Retort in a Sand-fire there will come off a Spirit which is the Spirit of Turpentine which you had added to it and there will remain in the Retort a pure Essence of Juniper as yellow as Gold and as thick as true Balsam It s Vse and Vertues The Essence of Juniper Berries helps the Tooth-ach Deafness the Rot of the Bones the Colick and the Gravel It s flegm or Spirit serves to prepare the extract of Juniper as we shall teach hereafter The Aromatick Essence of Cloves Cinnamon Pepper Aniseed Fennel seed Rosmary-leaves Thyme Marjorum Savin Jesmin-Flowers Orange-Flowers Orange and Lemmon Peels and generally of all Roots Barks Rinds Woods Berries Seeds Leaves and Aromatick Flowers whose oyly Tincture may be easily extracted in water are drawn the same way as that of Juniper Berries but those Woods Roots and Barks that are of a thicker and more compact substance and which will not easily yield their oyly Tincture in water must be used without water in a Retort and naked fire to extract their Oyl which by consequent must be black stinking and caustick as the Oyl of the Wood and Bark of Guiac c. The stinking and black Oyl of Juniper FIll a Stone or Glass Retort luted with the Berries of Juniper that have already yielded their Aromatick Oyl Place it upon an earthen Bowl full of ashes in a small Reverberatory Furnace there will come abundance of white Vapours which in the Receiver will dissolve some into an acid Spirit and some into a Black Oyl stinking and caustick Out of a pound of Berries you will have about two ounces of this Oyl and twelve of acid Spirit and if you use fresh Berries that have not served you will have the double of stinking Oyl separate by a glass Tunnel the Oyl from the Spirit It s Vse and Vertues The Oyl is good for Ring-worms for the Tooth-ach the Rot of the Bones and all old Ulcers The Extract of Juniper PUt into the Brass Vesica or double glass ●●●sel a peck of Juniper Berries fresh gather● and pour upon them distilled water of Junip●● three or four fingers high above them if yo● have not enough of the said Water you may suply your want with common Water Place yo●● Vesica in a circulary fire or in any of the Reve●beratory Furnaces with a small fire or if you 〈◊〉 a double glass Vessel set it in a sand Furnace wi●● a good fire there let it stand twenty four hour● till the tincture be extracted which pour o● gently into a Brass Basin or into an Earthe● Pan place it upon a little Furnace over a nake● fire and make it boil as soon as you can whe● it boils throw into it five or six whites of Eggs with the Egg-shells and so continue to make it boil till your whites of Eggs be hard and loaden with the Faeces of the Tincture then pour off this clarified Tincture from its dregs and strain it through a Linnen or Flannel-strainer
and pour to it Spirit of Sulphur or distilled Vinegar or juice of Lemmons four or five fingers high above the matter there will presently be caused a little simpring or boiling which ended stir your matter with a stick then suffering it to settle a little pour off your Dissolvant which will be loaded with some part of the said powder of Pearls and will be as white as Milk Pour more Dissolvant upon the matter left and do as at first continuing this Operation till all your powder be dissolved then gather together all your Dissolutions in the same precipitatory Vessel or in another if you will and pour upon them great quantity of common Water divers times to sweeten and wash the said Dissolution and continue this till the Water have carried away all the Acrimony of the Dissolvant After you have poured out the last Water your matter will remain like Pap which put into a paper Coffin and there let it dry in the shade upon a Sieve you will have the Magistery of Pearls as white as Snow in little mis-shapen pieces which you may keep as they are or else powder them or if you please you may at first before your matter be dry form them into Trochisks as has been taught Obs 1. That we reduce the Pearls to a fine powder that they may be easilier dissolved by a less quantity of Dissolvant in the powdering of them the Mortar is covered because that Pearls being small and round and hard would in beating be apt to leap out of the Mortar and be lost if it were not covered Obs 2. That we rather use here Spirit of Sulphur than distill'd Vinegar or juice of Lemmon because it dissolves them easilier than either of the other insomuch that one pound of Spirit of Sulphur will sooner dissolve an ounce of Pearls than twelve pound of distill'd Vinegar or juice of Lemmons besides that the Spirit of Sulphur is more cordial and pectoral than either of them Obs 3. That the Spirits of Salt Niter and Vitriol are not proper for this Operation because of their too great corrosive faculties which would go near to rest in the Magistery and then we should be obliged to sweeten it so long till at last the Water of the Lotion would carry away with it a good part of the Magistery We may say as much of the Oyl of Tartar made per deliquium in a wet place or by the dissolution of the Salt of Tartar in common Water besides the Spirit of Vitriol would black the whiteness of the Magistery and the Oyl of Tartar would make it rough to the feeling Obs 4. That common Water is sufficient to precipitate the said Magistery and weaken the Spirit of Sulphur so as to make it lose its hold because that the dissolution of Pearls by the said Spirit having been performed without the help of an external heat and without any great penetration there is no need of any strong fight between the Dissolvant and the Precipitant Obs 5. That the Water of the first sweetning has a little smell of Ambergreece if the dissolution be with the Spirit of Sulphur for Pearls opened by this Spirit have such a smell It s Vse and Vertues This Magistery is a great Cordial against all venomous Feavers the Small Pox in Children the pains of the Spleen it is likewise good for Consumptive persons and against Loathings and desires to vomit caused by sharp serosities The Dose is from a scruple to a dragm It is also a Fucus being mingled with some proper Pomatum Some brag with ostentation of a Water of Pearls but it can be nothing else but this Magistery mingled with some Cordial Water which if stirred becomes as white as Milk for as for the true Milk of Pearls which is the Dissolution of Pearls in the Spirit of Brimstone it cannot properly be called Water of Pearls because that by reason of its sharpness it is not potable The Water of the first Lotion of your Magistery is excellent to scour and whiten the hands The Calx of Oyster-shells TAke of the uppermost part of Oyster-shells what quantity you please wash them and cleanse them in warm Water and let them dry upon a Lettice in the Sun Then take six or eight Tiles made in the form of a half-Circle of such a proportion as that two of them join'd together may fill the inward Round of the Laboratory of a Reverberatory Furnace leaving the space of an inch empty between the sides of the Furnace and the said Tiles to give the fire play round about and betwixt the said Tiles for there must be also in two or three places of their Circumference a Brim of an inch deep to let the flame in to calcine those matters that shall be set upon them Place two of these Tiles upon the Iron Bars of the Laboratory and upon them place three or four other rows of Tiles loaden with Oyster-shells one upon another so as there be half a foot left empty of the top of the Laboratory then cover your Laboratory with an earthen Pan turn'd upside down in whose bottom is a hole give a great Fire at first with Wood and Coals and when it is come to the last degree continue that twelve hours the flame passing upon your Oyster-shells will calcine them and reduce them into Calx as white as Snow and so brittle as to fall into powder if you touch it Obs 1. That we take only the upper part of the Oyster-shells because that part is whiter and thinner and easier to calcine than the lower part Obs 2. That we wash them in warm Water before we calcine them that we may scour them and cleanse them from a certain mucilaginous ordure which in the calcining would leave a blackness and spoil the beauty of your Calx If you desire to scour your Oyster-shells a better way after you have washed them in warm Water put them into a stone Pan and pour upon them distilled Vinegar one finger high over the matter and so let them soak one day then take them out and dry them in the Sun before you calcine them Obs 3. That the Calx of Oyster-shells is very Salt so that by the same method that we draw the Salt of Vegetables and Animals we may likewise draw this Salt in good quantity that is by dissolution in common Water filtration and evaporation of your Lixivium till it be dry This Calx is composed of two substances viz. of a good deal of white Virginal Earth and of a good deal of Salt both fix and volatil by means of which the said Oyster-shells are naturally heavy It s Vse and Vertues This Calx is most excellent for the Gravel because of its Salt it is very opening and dries up by means of the two substances it is composed of all superfluous humidities of the Body The Dose is from twenty to thirty Grains in some Conserve Preserve or Syrup The Magistery and Calx of Egg-shells TAke a good
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-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-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-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 f●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