either be distilled into a Spirit or sublimed into a Salt as you please But we say that you need not proceed so high for when all the Principles are so united as readily to dissolve under an highly Alkalizated Spirit then by Distillation you will have the flavours brought over very rich and fragrant and a sweet Balsam remain behind the which you must deflegm very carefully and by Digestion unite with the Volatile Spirit and then you have not only an Oleosum and Powers but also the Essence of that Concreat whose Virtues are so noble that they really will perform as much as can in Reason therefrom be expected as you shall see more at large in the following Preparation c. Potestates Abscinthii or the Powers of Worm-wood Take Worm-wood gathered in its proper signature rich and full of Seeds what quantity you please let it be somewhat gently dried chop'd small and then put into a Tub with water and Salt as directed in other Powers then distil therefrom the Essential Oyl remove and separate by a Separatory and the Oyl carefully preserve N. B. the Water will serve to macerate fresh Worm-wood to which being put into the Still you may add the former Oyl and distil again by which means you will not only get the larger quantity of oyl but the same will also be purer and richer of the Essential Virtues of the Herb Now the remaining herbs may be dryed in the Sun and then burnt to Ashes in a Chimney or for brevity sake let dry Worm-wood which hath not been distilled be burned the which will yield the greatest quantity of Salt which calcined Ashes put into a large Hypocrates sleeve and hang the same over a large Funnel wherein is placed a double Cap-paper and gently pour on the Ashes distilled Rain-water about blood-warm and so the saline water will pass through the bagg and be received by the Funnel from thence filtre into the under Receiver and become very pure you must observe to cast on fresh Liquor as long as any saltness comes out of the Ashes and when they will give no more place your Receiver in a Sand Furnace give fire and continue the same until the whole is evaporated off to a dryness then remove and put into a Calcining pot in a Wind-furnace and with a small Iron rod keep stirring until it is throughly glowing hot then remove and when cold put them on a Marble or Glass made for that purpose set it in a cold Cellar and let run per del the which again filtre and Christallize and so is the true Salt of Wormwood Prepared which is excellent for the destroying Acidities in the Body and stopping Vomitings of any kind But to exalt it the Essential oyl must therewith be spagyrically united as we have before said which in plain terms is performed by adding in our Dispositio media or Reconciler of Extreams what this is we have briefly intimated in our Spagyrick Phylosophy Asserted together with its Preparation but more fully and amply in our Spagyrick Philosophy's Triumph Trifertes Soladini and Ignis Astralis Adeptorum the which God willing shall see the Light they being preparing for the Press Now take of this Salt one pound of the Essential oyl two or three pound and of our Red Wine Q. S. E. to elixerate and then by a secret fermentative Coction like the heat of the Sun in Aries the Compound will be changed into a third Nature neither saline nor sulphureous but white and creamy of a saponary consistence which nevertheless is no common Sapo but Philosophical for we say that it is not sufficient to unite the salts and oyls by a bare association of parts but by a radical union they entring into each others profundity Now when the Circulation is so far performed as that the Alkaly hath drank in three times its weight of oyl and none swim on the top then pour thereon the pure Alkalizated Spirit of Worm-wood and draw off and you shall have a volatile burning Spirit very fiery with the oyl which is more noble Powers than any hitherto extant altho it hath not yet a third part of the Exaltation of its virtues for after the Spirit is over you have an insipid Flegm as also a noble tinged Balsam the which you must by Circulation unite with the former and so by another Rotation you have the true Powers of Worm-wood Whose Virtues are so many as that we shall not here insert them but refer you to the Famous Radolphus Glauber the Worthy Starkey and Renowned Helmont and that mighty Chymical Monarch Paracelsus and so proceed on to show the way of making the Essential Salt that being most advantagious to the curious Artificers in Liquors Whose Preparation Helmont expresly says may be Performed in three Months by his hidden Circulation without Water And we say that as the aforesaid Elixeration is performed being again dissolved in its own Menstruum by a gentle decoction the whole will be converted into a Christalline Salt a small part of the oyl only excepted which will be turned into a Rosinary Gum distinct from what is Salified which said Salt contains the Vita media and whole Crasis of the Vegetable for by this way of Union they contract from each other a wonderful Virtue for from the Salt proceeds the Abstersive and from the Oyl the Balsamick and Vital Nature both Contributing for the performing real Cures this is that Salt of Worm-wood which Helmont says is a true Specifick for the curing all kind of Feavers Now what we further observe in this Salt is that it hath a communicative Ferment to all Herbs for their macerated Tinctures being taken out as we have shown in our Chymicus Rationalis and Digested therewith in a Chicken heat 't will all in about twelve or fifteen days be converted into a Christalline Salt thus the Tincture of Worm-wood exalts its own Salt and so the like of other Vegetables Nay moreover by this way you may have a Salt of such herbs as will not by Distillation yield their Essential Oyls as Hellebore Jallop Briony Elecampane and many others nay even from Safron and many things of a more gummous nature Let this of the Essential Salt of Worm-wood suffice seing therein are laid down rules sufficient for the making as many more as you please it being rather a common place than single Receipt for as Starkey and Helmont say in the learning of one you learn to make all Now the way to know the goodness and true Preparation of this Salt is thus in the first place 't is very sweet and fragrant smelling strong of the Essential Oyl whence made without having the least urinous scent Secondly 't will readily dissolve in water without making the same muddy and boyl up again without the least loss of Virtue Thirdly 't is totally Volatile as is evident in this that being cast upon a Red-hot plate of Iron it will fume all away without leaving the least grain of
M Vander Gucht scul The Art of Distillation here behold More perfect than before taught by tenfold Introitus Apertus ad Artem Distillationis OR THE Whole ART OF DISTILLATION Practically Stated And Adorned with all the New Modes of WORKING now in Use In which is Contained The Way of making Spirits Aquavitae Artificial Brandy and their Application to Simple and Compound Waters in the exact Pondus of the Greater and Lesser Composition as also many Curious and Profitable Truths for the exalting of Liquors being the Epitomy and Marrow of the whole Art supplying all that is omitted in the London Distiller French and Baker c. Experience being the true Polisher hereof To which is Added The True and Genuin Way of preparing Powers by three noble Menstruums sc A Purified Sal Armoniack the Volatile Salt of Tartar and Sal Panaristos through which they are exalted to an higher degree of Perfection than any hitherto Extant together with their Virtues and Dose Illustrated with Copper Sculptures By W. Y-worth Medicinae Professor in Doctrinis Spagyricis per Ignem Philosophus London Printed for Joh. Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCII THE Epistle to the READER Courteous Reader THE End and Intention of our Writing and Compiling these Sheets is to bring the Art of Distillation into one compleat and entire Volume containing all the necessaries thereunto belonging For hitherto this hath been but short and defectively performed for it hath had the mishap as many other Excellent Arts have had sc To be Treated of by such as have not practically known the same or else by those who have on purpose concealed that which in reality ought to have been discovered so that the Authors hitherto extant are either filled wiih needless Prescription confused Workings long and tedious Prolixity of Words and Circumlocutions as we may say going about the Wood or else have concealed the Ariadnean thread which should lead directly to the Practick and so are only useful to those who have served seven Years Apprentiship to the imploy then knowing what to choose and what to refuse and being able to pick the Rose from among Thorns without pricking themselves for what a chargable and confused piece of work should we have were we to provide our selves with all those Vessels and Instruments described by Baker for the making Waters Aqua vitae and Burning Spirits and to separate them from their Flegm which when done would neither answer the end nor countervail the charge for 't is well known to all ingenious men how difficult a thing it was to prepare a Spirit which would fire Gun-powder or be so purely Aetherial as to vanish in the Sun 'till the use of Salt was known by whose help we are able to perform it in large quantities even in our common Stills with their Refrigeratory And the most exact way that we ever saw is to work with Salts in a large Copper body with its Alembick and Refrigeratory in Baln For with a lent heat you will have your Spirit perfectly deflegm'd which for curiosity sake you may repeat a second time and then will it far excell any of those made by the difficult Inventions before mentioned and therefore why should we go to so much charge and trouble when it may be performed with so much facility and ease And again he is filled with abundance of Chymical Preparations which have not the least adherence to the making of Spirits and so the mind of the Reader is diverted from that which only should be of Service to him nay this is so apt to fill their heads with fancies that they rest unsatisfied 'till brought to Tryals which either considerably exhaust their Substance or else take them from their business nay sometimes wholy incapacitates them for the same therefore shall we pass by him and come to consider that of French Dr. French indeed was a man of Ingenuity as his Works plainly show seing many curious things are therein contained yet can we not wholly clear him from some of these defects And as for the London Distiller tho his Prescriptions there laid down are proper yet is he defective both in the exact Modus of working the ordering of the Wash and Backs for a quick Fermentation and upon a defect in their Working to bring them kindly forward again as also in the great business of Rectification concerning which there is so great a noise about the Town and indeed not without good reason seing too too many are deficient in so advantageous a Secret as this is yet is both he and French so scarce that one of them is hardly to be gotten and then again on the other hand what we have formerly written in order to have supplied these defects was in such general Terms and so short as that of it self it was not sufficient to mâ—ke any one prompt-perficient in the Art Therefore we being desired by several Ingenious Persons to communicate our Experience to the World and so to supply the defects before mentioned as much as in us lay have upon a mature Consideration thereunto condiscended with this Resolution that we would do it so as to capacitate any one tho of a mean Genius and never brought up to the Art in a little time by Study and Practice to be a compleat Master in the same without having recourse to any other Author for which end we have comprised it into a Pocket-Volume that so it might be the more portable and by consequence ready for their Perusal Now that you may the better conceive what is therein contained we shall in brief proceed as follows In the First place we have described the manner of Working in general with all the necessary Vtensils thereunto belonging and then in a more particular way have showed various and profitable ways of making Low-wines from any of the six Materials some by Decoction and others without giving you our Opinion which we best Approve of we have indeed here laid down such Rules in the ways of Brewing and Ordering the Wash as also in the bringing it into Low-wines as that there is â—o Material in Nature that will yield a Vinor Spirit but what may be wrought by some or other of them and being thus far brought the time of their lying for their bettering is signified together with the way of bringing them into Proof-goods And then In the Second we have shown the exact way of Rectification by and through such Mediums as that they are brought into most excellent Stuff and if the use of Tartar Sulphur whether common or that of Mars and Venus joyned with the sweet Salt were known certainly sweet and pleasant Spirits might be brought forth but more especially by the help of our Sal Panaristos might English goods be so ordered as that in Tast and Smell they might be little Inferior to those of Gallia and equal in Vertue to the English Constitutions because of their Climatary Affinity Concerning which
we have not only given you our own Experience but also the Authority of the famous Radolphus Glauber which being so prepared we have likewise shown their various uses in making Cordial-Waters and Spirits In the Third we have shown all the Necessary and Vseful Compositions in the Art according to the greater and lesser Pondus to which we have added many rare ones of our own together with an Usque-bagh-Royal never Published before and also the way of Dulcifying and Perfuming these Wares or Liquors so that they may be the most Commodious for Sail. And in the Fourth we have moreover shown the True and Genuine way of making Powers by three noble Menstruums sc a Purified Sal Armoniack the Volatile Salt of Tartar and Sal Panaristos together with their Vertues Vse and Dose for the Benefit of such as languish under the burthen of Refractory Diseases and can find no Relief from the common Prescriptions for we have through much Expence and Labor by the Providence of God thereunto attained and by more than Ten Years Experience knowing their admirable Vertues to be such as to relieve when past the hopes of other means we thought we could no better befriend the World especially the Ingenious Lovers of Art than freely to communicate their Composition that so they might the better Judge of their Nature and Property and altho we have not attributed so many Vertues thereunto as others have done to more Inferiour Powers yet this hath been on purpose omitted for two Reasons The First because we hate fruitless repetitions or to speak more of the Vertue and Vse of things than we know they will really perform for we would rather that a Medicine should Cure Ten Diseases when we speak but of Five than to speak of Forty when 't will very rarely Cure One and especially in these seing their Administration is general and safe without the least difficulty The other is because we have looked upon it as a grand Error too often Committed by our New Compiler to attribute that to one sleight or common Preparation which can but in due right be ascribed to the highest Specifick or Arcanum nay even to the Universal it self therefore tho we know that ours are farr superior yet were we resolved therein to be very cautious least others should suppose us guilty of the like default Now what we have further to say is that we have great reasâ—n to bless the Lord our God who of his infinite mercy hath given us Wisdom and Knowledg of the things of Nature not only in their Original Form and Texture but also in their true Preparation and Virtue whereby we are inabled to demonstrate that which we doubt not will uphold our Writings in a greater splendor than now set forth to the dishonor of such as are ambitious of that which really does belong to others but seing ours is no Foster-child but a true birth brought forth by difficult Travel we are bound to defend it from the Karps of such Momus's and the more especially seeing we have daily Confirmations from most parts of the Kingdom of its kind acceptance by and among the Ingenious Laborious and Honest-hearted which lays a further Obligation on us to be yet as serviceable to such as in us lies in the resolution of which we subscribe our selves their sincere Friend in all things agreable to the entire Law of Innocency From the Academia Spagyrica nova in St. Paul's Shadwel Lond. W. Y-worth Geboor tigh tot Shipham Burger van Rotterdam The CONTENTS or Chief Heads of the Matters Contain'd in this Book THE Original of Distillation its Use P. 1 Of a Fit Work-house Conveniencies and proper Utensils belonging to the Art P. 2 Of the Basis and Grounds of Distillation and under how many Heads they may properly be Comprehended P. 8 The various Ways of Brewing and of those most profitable for Distillation P. 9 How to order Corn so that it shall not burn in the Still P. 13 The Way to Order a Back of Molasses and upon Defect of Fermentation how to restore it into a generous one P. 14 Of Honey how Ordered P. 17 Cyder tho never so generous ought to be opened again in order to yield the greater quantity of Spirit P. 18 The Office of Calx-vive and Argall in promoting Raisons and other Fruits into Fermentation P. 19 Of what Wines Brandy is generally made P. 20 The Dutch way of exalting Small Wines Ibid. How the Lees of Wine are to be Ordered for Distillation P. 21 The way of Ordering and Fermenting Herbs in order to make them give the greater quantity of Spirit in Distillation ibid. Important Considerations concerning the Doctrine of Fermentation and Distillation in general P. 22 The Way of Charging the Still with liquid things P. 24 How to Lute and of what the Past must be made together with the way of bringing the Still to Work ibid. How those things wherein the Corporality must be Distilled are to be Ordered P. 25 The Author 's new Invention to Distill all manner of Corporal Things so that the Still shall not be burnt nor the Low-Wines receive an ill Tangue ibid. How long 't is convenient for Low-Wines to lye to Enrich and better themselves P. 26 The Author 's new Invention of a Balneum within the great Still wonderfully advantageous to sweeten the Spirits in the second and third Extraction P. 27 The true way of proceeding in the second Extraction ib. A new Invention to take the Oyliness out of Spirits P. 28 What Quantity of Low-Wines and Proof-Spirits may be Extracted from every Quarter of Malt. ib. The Dutch way of Receiving Low-Wines and Proof-Spirits P. 29. Of Rectification in General P. 30 The Nature and Difference of Corn in the making of Spirits from whence their goodness or badness proceeds as also of the possibility of bettering the same ibid. The Office of purified Tartar in exalting of Corn-Spirits P. 31 The variety of Tasts proceeding from the several Specificated Sulphurs or Ideal Forms which being truly prepared carry with them a Medicinal yet no evil Savours P. 32 Adustion and evil Savours proceed from the violence of the Fire ibid. How to take off the Adustion from Spirits even from Rum and Rack P. 33 That one But of Wines will yield different Spirits ib. The practical Way of exalting Malt Spirits and how to indue them with flavours measurably like those of Wine P. 34 The excellent efficacy of sulphurated Salts in sweetening of Spirits P. 35 From whence the curious flavors proceed to Brandies P. 37 The possibility of the alteration and melioration of Spirits stated from that of the Transmutation of Form P. 38 Philosophical Considerations in the Art of Rectification P. 41 The way of preparing such Waters as are simply indued with the virtue of one herb only P. 44 Aqua Anisi simplex simple Aniseed Water ibid. Aqua Cardamomi simplex simple Gardamum Water P. 45 Aqua Nasturtii simplex simple Garden-cress Water
writing but from a sluggish neglect of their heedful observation and of putting them into use for have we not named besides the Lees of Wine and what proceeds from that root with the Viner Heiggs c. and others which you count Spagyrical things of such a degree as any one may conceive as Bay Salt Bay Leaves Orrice c. And to those already named we will add Cherries without the Stones Arsmart Pepperwort the Herb Scarleae the Blackberry first made into Wine as directed as also Wheat Corn for from thence proceed most excellent flavours as we know by large Experience therefore accept of our plain and kind Communication and by a few tryals you may hit the profitable truth especially if you over Dose not the Spirit with the Herb for do we not see how a few drops of the Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Mace being dropt into Sugar and cast into Wines alter their taste especially if some Essence of Ambergreese is added as may be hereafter more largely shown in the next Impression of our Britannean Magazine of Liquors we also see that the Elder-flower cast into well decocted Mead makes it just like Wine made of the Apian or Muskadine Grape All which presidents make clear the Art of Rectification so that enough and more than enough is said of this Nature seeing the diligent hand must by trials obtain that which may greatly redound to the satisfaction of the searcher for doth not Solomon say the diligent hand makes rich which may be understood in Knowledge as well as Substance since that he preferrs Wisdom and Understanding before all the Riches and Glory of this World saying that Kings and Princes must come and throw down their Crowns and Scepters before it And how can any man be said to excel another if he have not some gifts above him and a Practical knowledge in that of which the other understands nothing but into this part must every man enter by his own self-labour and uncessant seeking and knocking until Divine Providence through his perseverance opens it unto him For we can neither lay nor yet think of any Limitations in this Case but as to what we have written we think it sufficient for any rational Genius to make enlargements on and the more especially seeing we have shown the Preparation of Powers and Essential Salts in the second Head in the fourth Chapter sc of noble specificated Powers as also in the third Head touched at the Office of our Sal Panaristos which will perform on Wines and Spirits all that the Artist can desire nay even to the Superlative degree and yet the radical Product of England therefore did we in our first Part Metaphorically describe the Actions of the Planets in order to set forth this thing and to show that the Universal Spirit may have its pure Effluviums so concentrated as to be brought into a Corporeal or Bodily Form this is that when so prepared which hath power to transmute one Nature into another and as Vulgar Venus will Cloath Pale-Faced Sol with a deeper and more beautiful Garment so will our Chaos of Mars and Venus mentioned in the Preface of our Chymicus Rationalis or rather our Vitriol of Venus and Mars Philosophical be a Medium for the exalting of Spirits into a purer Nature and how can it be otherwise seeing the Vine is under the Signature of Venus and the Juice thereof hath only from thence its sweet Salt but this hath the Virtue of all the Planets Concatinated into a pure sweet and Chrystaline Salt the very Key to the Golden and Lunar Magnet and other such perfect ones which by their internal purities will magnetically attract and separate Impurities from other beings and so doth this the Flegm and gross Sulphur in Spirits which being stirred up by the Fire cause their Nauseous smell and taste and sometimes faetid especially if burnt and so brings them to a more perfect state but this cannot be so properly called a Transmutation of form for that is a changing out of one kind into another as an Alteration or Melioration from a more inferiour to a more superior degree but seeing the Original of this Salt together with its Office is shown in the fourth Chapter sc that of Powers we shall thither referr you for it and come to show what remains as pertinent to be treated of in this following part of the Chapter sc The true way of preparing Simple Waters and Spirits such we mean as have no more than the Spirit and one single entire Herb in them because in many cases 't is convenient to have their single Virtues perse especially where they are expected to operate according to their Simple Virtue all laid down in the lesser or least Composition sc three Gallons or one Of Waters Aqua Anisi Simplex or Simple Aniseed Water Composition the least TAKE of Artificial Brandy one Gallon Aniseeds bruised twelve ounces put them into the like Alimbeâ—k desâ—ried in Fig. 3 and in Balmeo Distill off the fine Spirit S. A. then take two quarts of the Water cleansed by Calx vive Aniseeds bruised four ounces and in a cold Still Distill off something more than a quart in which Water gently dissolve on the Embers twelve ounces of fine white Sugar and when cold therewith allay and dulcifie the Spirits already refined and so is the Water prepared This Water is an excellent Carminative expelling Wind in the Bowels and all parts of the Body in brief it answers all that can be attributed to the Spirit Tincture Infusion or Decoction of the Seeds The Dose from one Spoonful to three Aqua Cardamomi Simplex or Simple Cardamom Water Composition the least Take of Brandified Spirits one Gallon Cardamom seeds one pound Operate in all things as in the former likewise prepare a Syrup as there directed with which dulcifie and allay This Water is very prevalent in warming and strengthning the Stomach comforting the Vital Spirits and expelling Wind carrying with it all the Virtues that may be attributed to any other preparation of the Seed The Dose is the same as the former After this way may be prepared the Water from most Seeds as Caraways Daucus Sweet-Foenil seeds c. The which we shall not repeat seeing their preparation is one with this and their Virtues to be understood after the same manner Therefore I shall proceed no further therein but come to Herbs Aqua Cardami simplex or simple Garden Cress-water Composition the least Take of Brandified Spirit one Gallon Garden Cresses fresh gathered half a peck macerate them in your Alimbeck three days and then Distiâ—… into fine goods S. A. Also from the Herb per sâ— in the cold Still Distill the cold Water to every three pound of which you must add one pounâ— of fine Sugar the which dissolve therein and then therewith allay and dulcifie the Spirit let it refine and so is it prepared This Water helps to expectorate and raise tough Flegm destroys Worms
which Salt remove and carefully preserve for t is of an inestimable value Then take Oyster-shells wash them very clean dry them and Calcine them to an exceeding white Calx the which power very finely and sift through a fine sieve then take of this and the highly purifyed Sal-Armoniack of each a like quantity mix them well together and put them into a Retort and pour thereon twice their weight of the Alkalizated Spirit of that Concrete whence you intend to make your Powers and by degrees of fire distil to dryness the spirit that comes over you may rectifie from a proportionable Quantity of dryed herbs spices or seeds from whence you make your Powers or Oleosum and then unite three pound thereof with half a pound of Essential Oyl by two or three Cohobations or if your oyl is prepared as before directed you may only shake them together and they shall be united or in defect of this you may do it by digestion by adding in three or four ounces of our Common Reconciler or vegetable-preserving-Vegetable-preserving-Salt and so have you an Oleusum or Powers superiour to any as yet by others exposed to sale being not only indued with the middle nature of the Concreate but also an Abstersive Vertue as will be seen more at large hereafter for what is here said in general is sufficient to signifie unto you the preparation and nature of those Powers and Oleosums prepared by the Hermaphroditical Sal-Armoniack we shall therefore proceed to the Particulars and first of Potestates Cinamomi or the Powers of Cinamon Take of the aforesaid prepared Sal-Armoniack one pound of the highly Alkalizated Spirit of Wine four pound Distil and Unite as before directed then Rectifie from Cinamon one pound moistned with a little Oyle of common salt run per del in a strong B. M. and Cohobate two or three times upon the Cinamon by which means its Vertue will be obtained put this upon a pound of fresh Cinamon and Cohobate as before repeat this a third time and your Spirit will become very rich of the Cinamon now on the Cinamon that remains pour good Spirit of Wine and extract the Tincture as long as any will come add these Tinctures together and put them into a Retort and call off 8 4 gently dry the Extract the Cinamon that remains after Distillation must be gently dryed and Calcined into Ashes the which while so warm as to be handled must be put into a Cucurbit pouring thereon the before mentioned Spirit call'd over by making the Extract put on a blind head and digest three days decant the clear and if after that you think any Spirit remains in the Ashes you may call it off by Distillation and then with Distil'd Rain-water extract the Salt from the Ashes in the Cucurbit the which exactly filtre evaporate and Christallize Now add your two Spirits together and then take the Salt and extract and grind them together with six ounces of the Oyle of Cinamon put them into a large Retort and pour your Spirits on them Distil off and Cohobate three or four times and lastly return your spirit back adding in of our Common Reconciler four ounces digest four days decant the clear and so are the Powers prepared Their Vertues They are prevalent in Vertigoes Palsies Apoplexies deprivation of Sense Frensies Madness inveterate pains of the Head Megrims sudden Coughs Colds and difficulty of Breathing they not onely comfort the Head and Brain and refresh the Sences but also cheer the Heart resist Poyson and revive the Spirits being a powerful Medicine in Palpitations Faintings Swoonings and Sickness at the Heart and Stomack good against a stinking Breath Indigestion and want of Appetite and other the like Defects They are good for vomiting and spitting of Blood and excellent for weak and consumptive People They are also prevalent in the Cholick Griping of the Guts Wind Pain of the Stomack and Spleen Iliack Passion sharp and corroding humours in the Bowels and all other pains whatsoever they cure a Diarrhea Dysentery and Lientery the flux of the Liver over-flowing of the Terms and Whites in Women Their use and manner of being Taken For Fits or any Diseases that suddenly approach take thirty or forty drops in a glass of spring-water sweetned with a little Sugar anointing the fore-head and temples therewith and forcing the savours up the nostrels but for weakness and fluxes let forty drops be drank in a glass of Tent two or three times a day observe by the same rules are made the Powers of Sassafras and all such woods as will yield an Essential Oyle by Distillation all of which are more noble in vertue than any of their common Prescriptions hitherto Dispenced The price ten shillings an ounce Potestates Menthoe or the Powers of Mint Take of Mint gathered in the right signature in a clear day what quantity you please let them be chop'd very small or rather pounded in a great stone Mortar and put them into a large Tunn or Oyle-fatt as is ordered for Distillation and pour thereon new Wort or rather Mead sufficient to cover them at least an hands breadth either of which must be blood-warm head them well with yeast and let them work as we have ordered in our first part of Distillation and after five days distil with a large Refrigeratory into Low-wines the which pour again upon a fresh quantity of Mint gently dryed the herbs are best to be hang'd in a bag as described figure the second for so they will get no ill tangue and distil into proof goods then add fresh herbs as before and distil a third time which is called Rectification but in this we advise you to put in a Can or two of water to keep the body of your Still from burning as is usual in Reâ—â—ification then rectifie from Christallized Salt of Tartar and unite it with purified Sal Armoniack and again rectify from the herbs in a large Cucurbit with its glass Helm and so the Spirit becomes rich pure vital strong and fragrant of the Herb take of this three pound of the oyl of Mint six ounces and unite as directed in the generals Observe that if Essential oyls are rectified from mortified bay-Bay-Salt they may be brought to unite in equal pondus with the Spirit VIRTUES These Powers are superior to any of this nature hitherto extant and wonderfully fortify the Spirits exhilerate the mind strengthen the stomack and provoke Appeâ—ite stays the Hiccough and Vomiting and stops the fury of cholerick Passions their like prevalency is also seen in stopping the Flowers and Whites externally the Temples being bathed with them eases the Head-ach and cures Watry-eyes strengthening weak sinnews and being internally taken and externally applyed are a Counter-poyson against the venom of Serpents The Dose is from twenty to forty Drops in Mead Wine or rather some cordial Julep made from it's distil'd water or Syrrup The Price is Twelve pence an ounce Potestates Melissoe or the Powers of Bawm Let
your Bawm be gathered in its right signature and ordered in all things as was said of Mints only t is best to add in the Fermentation a little fixed Niter because the oleous part is not so easily manifested as in some other herbs and you may make use of Sugar instead of Honey in your fermenting as we have directed in that of the fermentation of flowers herbs and seeds by Sugar but you must observe that after t is brought into Proof-goods you must rectify at least four or five times before you Alkalizate it or unite it with the purified Sal Armoniack and then you may proceed in all things as in that of Mint for the making of Vegetable Powers is rather a common place than bare receipt VIRTUES These are a great Comforter of the Heart good against cold and moist stomacks and thence help Concoction they imbibe evil Fume and so not only open the Brain but also strengthen and refresh the same they ease the Tooth-ach powerfully purifying the Blood in the King's-evil Scurvey Dropsy Gout Jaundice and Worms they expel Poyson and the Plague and cure the biting of Mad-dogs they so wonderfully fortify the vital and natural Spirits that a certain Author says they are endued with renovating virtue even to restore Old Age to a withful strength but whether so or not we can't say but this we know by Experience that they revive the most melancholy person into a wonderful cheerfulness and are also excellent being externally used for hard swellings and the Gout and to bath grieved parts The Dose is from fifteen to thirty Drops sometimes forty according to age and strength in a glass of Ale Mead or any fragrant wine you may give them thrice a day the price is fourteen pence an ounce Potestates Sambuci Succinatoe or the Powerful United Spirit of Elder Essentificated with Amber Take the Berries when ripe and pick out the stalks and green ones and with a large press as for Apples press out their Juice cask it up with a little bay-salt and sweets or stumme and in a warm place cause them well to ferment you may let them have some age and then refine down with Izing-glass and rack of so you will have a noble Wine as you were show'd in the first part then on the cheese or berries that remain you may pour rain or spring-water and press a second time and boyl the Liquor half an hour and then putting it into the receivers let it stand till about blood-warm and to every gallon add a pound of Sugar stir them well together and with Ale-yest set it as you do a Back and after five days distil with a Refrigeratory into Low-wines Proof-goods and Rectified Spirits by the third extraction then take fresh berries and fill an Earthen-pan therewith and after the bread is drawn set them in the Oven and then press forth their Juice to every pound of which add a pound of six-penny-sugar and boyling it into a Syrrup clarify it with Whites of Eggs then to every gallon of the said Wines add a pound of the said Spirit and two pounds of the Syrrup or Sweets and let them ferment but observe to row them well together as you put them in and so will you have a Noble Wine Royal of Sambucus endued with noble Virtues as we have said in our first part now this must be again distil'd into Low-wines and proof Spirits and then rectifyed from the flowers seasonably gathered until it is a Sulphur wholy inflamable it will be yet the purer if you rectify it from its own salt drawn from the Ashes of the Wood burnt now that Salt volatilized and an Oyl drawn from the dry wood and these three united was formerly our Powers but to succinate it proceed thus Take of the best Amber three pound and distil in a Glass retort by the degrees of Fire separate the Spirit from the Oyl and rectify the Oyl from spirit of Salt or A. R. as we have shown in the Chapter of Oyls in our Chym. Rational and then from the dryed wood of Elder macerated with Bay-salt in a large Refrigeratory and so you have a noble transparent Oyl the which reserve 'till hereafter now the Spirit and Salt of Amber you must mix with equal parts of purifyed Sal Armoniack and by means of the aforesaid Oyster-shells force them into a Spirit which being rectifyed is in it self a most noble Medicine and being united with common Tartarisated Spirit of Wine will perform more than that which is made from the flowers of Sal-Armoniack sublimed from common Salt both in its Philosophical use in drawing Tinctures as also in its Medicinal virtues now take of the aforesaid Spirit of Elder seven pound of the succinated Spirit of purifyed Armoniack even now taught one pound and of the aforesaid Oyl of Amber twelve ounces and of our Common Reconciler six ounces shake them well together and they shall be united and digesting four days decant the clear and thus are the Noble Succinated Powers of Elder Prepared Observe I thought it convenient to give this at large for two Reasons the first is that if the shell of the Berry is fermented instead of relieving the Animal Faculties it will toxicate the brain like Man-drake or Hen-bane the second is the Oyl being hard to prepare without our Sal Panaristos therefore have we added the Oyl of Amber which Magnetically attracts it out of the wood we have seen the Effect of the former by such who have made the Spirits by fermentation without expressing the Juice therefore have we given this caution VIRTUES This is a most excellent and praise-worthy Medicine far beyond that set forth in onr Britanean Magazine of Liquors both sor internal and external uses 't is prevalent for most Diseases incident to the Body especially for agues and feavers surfeits pains in the head or back vomiting gripes and looseness 't is a safe and powerful Medicine in the jaundice scurvey and dropsy gout and stone and several other diseases as will be seen by its Vse and Dose In all Acute Diseases you may take from forty to fifty drops every three hours in a glass of Sack mull'd with Cinamon and sweating plentifully in Bed thereon wonderful Relief will be found for the offending Matter will be carryed off by sweat and urine In Pestilential diseases such wherein the mass of blood is Corrupted as small-pox swine-pox measles c. you must take it five or six times a day in a glass of sack posset-drink wherein safron is braid and so the Venom will be carried from the heart and the vital spirits be strengthened and as the disease begins to abate purge two or three times with the Golden-spirit to carry off the Reliques of the same For Gripes and tormenting pains of the Wind Cholick Strangury and want of Rest make a Brandy Caudle and as it is fit to drink put in at least sixty drops sweat well in Bed and admirable Relief will be
Air may come in give it for the first day a ferment in the still and the second distil but as it begins to work you must damp your fire very close for it must come but softly so let it run as long as any goodness comes you must repeat this Operation a second and third time with fresh Grass and if you add in a little Volatile Salt of Tartar or Sal Anotasier Lybianus and have a Peuterhead you may distil and receive a part as long as it runs all fire the after running you may save for afresh beginning Observe when you think that you have too much flegm in the Still you may add a quantity of decripitated Bay-salt and so will it be deflegm'd the way to make the Spirit purging is shown in our Chymicus Rationalis but for the Powers proceed thus take Scurvy-grass and smeer it over with new Mustard and lay a lay of that and another of Scurvey-grass-seed so continue str sup str and smeer up the uppermost also with Mustard ferment with Water and Salt and distil into Essential Oyl the way is shown in our Chymicus Rat. then being separated unite one pound of this with six pound of the Spirit according to the way directed in other Powers and so are they Prepared Their Virtues These Powers are abundantly surpassing in virtue any other preparation of Scurvy grass whatsoever and as I formerly told you they were originally prepared by me in Holland and presented to both Vniversities which for goodness strength and pleasantness of Tast were allowed to stand parallel with nay some were of Opinion that they clearly out striped those of the greatest Pretenders in Europe the Modus Operandi of which I never so plainly before communicated but I have now done it on purpose to be serviceable to the Ingenious and to destroy the use of that sophisticated Spirit sold which is made in six or eight hours time with a little Malt Spirit and Scurvey grass made burning and sharp in Tast with Horse-radish but this Spirit is not to be valued for t is impossible to take out the specifick virtue of the Grass without an higher exaltation and the reason why the sick are often disappointed in their Expectation is this the slight preparation that many Pretenders make for the Grass will not so easily give forth its central Virtue for this when truly obtained hath an excellent effect in relieving from many Diseases and principally the Scurvey because the herb hath a signature against the Disease it helps the Liver Spleen and other Viscera in their Defects it fortifies the vital Spirits and gives Circulation to the Blood it s internal texture being made up of a Volatile Armoniack and Vinor Essence united with a vital medicinal Crasis and as the Learned Physicicians allow as well Modern as Ancient which that worthy Mrs. Experience daily confirms there is no herb in the Vegetable Kingdom of a more Specifick Virtue in curing the Scurvey than the aforesaid Scurvey-grass for t is a great Abstersive and so dissolves and dissipates congealed humours for by its Alkalisated nature it opens and mundifies and by it's Vinor are the Venoms imbibed and destroyed so by its carrying off all the Saline trude humours which are the Original Cause of the Scurvey whether proceeding from living in crude moist and foggy Airs where the Sea-damps are or from raw sowr fruits or exceeding Salt Fish or Flesh as is plainly demonstrated by the incident of the Diseaseupon Seafaring-persons especially such as use long Voiages it sweetens the blood this Spirit doth not only cure this Disease in all its Symptoms but also prevents it from approaching in such as take it for prevention sake therefore in brief what we have to say is that it is indued with virtue to give Sanity to the principal Faculties and is a certain specifick both at Sea and Land where this popular Disease Reigns as also in Camps and Armies against the Chill-bane and Rot which are usually there by which men dye as Chore-sheep Their Vse and Dose For the Scurvey Jaundice Dropsy Consumption Phâ—hisick or shortness of Breath these Powers may be used at all times the oftner the better The Dose is ten twenty thirty or forty drops according to the Age Strength and Constitution of the Patient in a glass of Wine Beer Tea or Coffee as best liked The Price is one Shilling an Ounce Now according to these Rules you may make any Vegetable Powers therefore we shall omit instancing such as depend on common places and come to give a description of such as are Compound Potestates Emundantes or our General Cleansing Powers Take of Venice-Turpentine four pound Tartarizated Spirit of Wine the like quantity and put them into a large Retort distil and there will ascend a Spirit and fragrant Oyl as we have shown in making the Essential Oyl of Turpentine in our Chymicus Rationalis the Oyl must be made Aireal by Rectifying several times from Bay-salt as is also there shown the Spirit you must pour on Frankincense and Mastick of each two ounces Aloeshepatic Date-stones Laudanum Castor the Roots of Bettony and Elecampane of each one ounce and an half Cardamums Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Galingal Cubebs Calamus Aromaticus Lignum Aloes Yellow-Saunders Zedoary Pepper Spicknard Lawrel-berries Smallage-seeds Mug-wortseeds Sweet-fennel-seeds Ani-seed Sorrel-seeds of each two ounces and an half the Flowers of Brasil red and white Roses of each three ounces Germander Tormentil Juniper-berries Agrimony Centory Fumitory Pimpernel Dandelion Eye-bright Feverfew of each two ounces Rhubarb three ounces dryed Figs Raisons Sweet Almonds of each four ounces Virgins Hony six pound Mevis Sugar ten pound to these add of our Fermentative Salt three ounces and being close luted digest in the heat of Horse-dung twenty daies in the Vessel described fig. 4. Then take out and clapping on an head with its Receiver lute all fast and distil in B. 'till all is over that will ascend which first will come in a white Spirit secondly more deep and thirdly a yellowish-red with some floating Oyl which fragrant Spirit and Oyl preserve and unite with the aforesaid Etherial Oyl of Turpentine Observe you may remove your Vessel out of the B. into a Sand or Reverberatory Furnace and by degrees of fire force over all that will come which will be a stinking Flegm with some fetid Oyl the which may be rectifyed from Spirit of Salt as we have taught in our Chymicus Rationalis and so it will become fragrant and fit to be united with the Medicine then take of Musk and Ambergreece three ounces Safron four ounces Camphire three ounces and Cohobate in B. two or three times till united and lastly force all over till dry in the Bottom the subtil Spirit carefully preserve out of the faeces that remains in the bottom you must extract the Tincture with highly Rectified Spirit of Cinamon as long as it tinges the Spirit all which said Tinctures put together and Filtre and putting it
Faeces and give a Comfortable refreshment to the Brain prevalent in Epilepsies and Convulsions c. awakening the Brain and relieving from many stubborn Diseasie Ideas and refreshes the Animal Spirits superior to the best Aromatick used in fumigation nay it may be brought over by Distillation and then is it not only an Antidote it self but also hath Power to correct all Vegetable Poysons and at the same time to advance their Medicinal Virtues For by the means of this you may command a Salt from Opium which is a wonderful Arcanum for Feavers Agues and tormenting Pains the like from Hellebore for Melancholy Madness and lingring Feavers for thus by knowing these Salts you have a true Key whereby you may command Nature's choicest Specifick Medicines which are shut up in the most Virulent and Poisonous Vegetables These are those Salts instanced in our Brit. Mag. where we said that fixed Salts burning Spirits and Essential Oyls must be United Distilled and Cohobated until brought over in a Balsamick Spirit which being imbodied into an Essential Salt plainly manifests its Calidum innatum or drying enriching Sulphur which gives Life and Sulphurous Fatness durable lasting and substantial Virtues to Wine exalting both its Tast and Smell thus the Salt or Essence of Worm-wood will make rich Wormwood-wine the like will that of Mint Bawm and Angelica c. It also gives Fermentation thereunto and makes pure Wine indeed like that refined from its Lees giving it such qualities as deserve the highest Commendations as we could by undeniable Reasons in Philosophy prove nay more than this it exalts Spirits giving them the tast and flavour of the herb and makes Powers without any more difficulty The manner of its being used is thus Take an ounce thereof and in a gentle heat dissolve it in a Pint of the Wine which you intend to enrich and then with two or three ounces of Sugar cast it into what quantity of Wine you please as you will have it smaller or richer in Tast Smell and Vertue but for Spirits take these Salts and pour upon them of the said Spirit and then digesting in a gentle heat the Spirit by refusion or pouring off as often as it is tinged will extract the whole Tincture of the Vegetables leaving the Salt behind robbed of the same from whence it may be gathered that the Salt and Tincture are centrally distinct tho they have centrally wrought each on the other this Tincture you may add into your Spirits and so will they thereby be truly enriched Thus from Clary you may obtain the most noble Preparation that hath hitherto been used among the Exalters of Wine and so of others For which Communication you ought to be thankful unto the great Creator who hath given me a tenderness of mind you-ward and not despise the Instrument who is yet inclined to your further Service by proceeding to the third Head sc Potestates verae Arcanae per Salem Nostrum Panaristos or The true Essential and Genuin Powers of Bodies The Sal Panaristos being Prepared as we have laid down in our Spagyrical Pharmacopaea as also in our Ignis Astralis Adeptorum and exalted by its Volatile Spirit it becomes a Menstruum as it is distilled over with the Magical Gold so powerful that it dissolves and opens the Texture of Bodies either in the Vegetable Animal or Mineral Kingdom and brings them over the Helm in their distinct Principles and altho they are by it reduced to their first matter yet it scorns to contract Unity with any body but its own tho never so highly purified hence as that worthy George Starkey saith its Transmutation is as impossible as the washing the Blackamore white wherefore by all the Adepts 't is called Homogeneous and Immortal Now this being distilled off from a Vegetable as before said until it is totally Volatile and the Liquor again separated there-from and the Principles of the Vegetable reunited by digestion in a gentle heat equal to that of the Sun in Aries and so brought to a Salin-Sulphureous and Balsamick Quality endued with the full power force and virtue of the Concreate whence prepared one Grain thereof contains more Virtues than a whole Ounce if Administred inits Crude Nature tho but simply indued with the Concreat's virtue without any addition whatsoever and therefore not improperly called the true Essential and Genuin or purely Natural and Proper Powers yet in virtue abundantly superior to any other preparation whatsoever being that wherein Glauber Starkey and Helmont so much Gloried the last highly commending the first Ens of Cedar thereby prepared thereunto attributing virtues sufficient to preserve long Life and his Elixer Proprietatis as a Balm to defend against Corruptions and Death and altho we cannot boast that we have in all things prepared Helmont's Alkahest yet in this we are very confident that we know the Matter whence it was prepared and have seen and made a Salt therefrom which stands parallel with what Glauber attributes to his Sal Mirabilis having made some experiments by it especially in taking off the ill tangue of Malt Spirits which have answered so far above our expectation as that we could do no less than give it the name of Sal Panaristos for being so much superior to others we thought it not unworthy of the Superlative Degree And you may observe that this Salt carries with it an Universal Tendency having obtained its Virtue from superior and inferior Beings for as we formerly said the three first Principles are Christallized in the three last by means of that fire which as Sandivogius saith burns up three and leaves one which is the Diamond-like powder the true fixed Nitre of the Wise and doubtless Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and Glauber's Sal Mirabilis this performing all that can in reason be to them attributed the manner of whose preparation we could freely communicate in words at length were we but satisfied that the fulness of time was come for the revealing such Secrets but however from hence proceeds the Key for the true Preparation of all Arcana and principally Powers Tinctures Essences Quintessences and Elixers particular and universal Medicines according to the exaltation of the Specifick Sulphur in the one and the degrees of Purity and Universality in the other even to a Magoreum for it carries with it Universal Principles even such as exalt bodies nay it contains those Airy and Nitrous ones by which they are caused to vegetate and multiply and therefore have we not improperly called it the Mercurial Life which conveys the Solar Virtues into the Lunar Matrix he therefore that knows this Airy Life the nourisher of Beings and how to concatinate its pure Effluvia so as to make them corporeal may boldly depend that he knows the Nature of that by which Transmutation of Form is made especially if he is acquainted with the Vinum rubrum Philosophicum and its Spirit for as Hermes saith in Chao generali cap. 19. fol. 268.
every Peck one Pound of Honey and a little Bay Salt and let them Ferment two or three days in a cold Cellar for in a warm place much of their Crasis will be lost which consists in a Volatile Salt then cram these into your Still as close as ever you can and pour upon them of th e best Aethereal Spirit of Wine enough only to moisten them clap on your Still and Distil all with a very slow fire it can't be too gentle therefore in this be very careful and what comes over first will be the true Spirit of Scurvey-Grass you may proceed by a second Repetition and then to every Gallon of this Spirit add a pound of its own Seeds or Flowers and Distill again And be sure in these Operations you observe to take no more than the high Spirit Now for the remaining Spirit in the Still you must put to it a quantity of decripitated Bay-Salt and Distill as long as it comes Proof with which you may begin your next Distillation with fresh Scurvey-Grass proceeding as before This is the true and best way to prepare the right Spirit of Scurvey-Grass To make it Golden and Purging we referr you to our Clymicus Rationalis Its Virties 'T is proper in the Scurvey Dropsie or Jaundice c. which we shall not here repeat seeing we have spoken thereof in its proper and genuine Preparation so that of Powers The Dose is from thirty to Fifty Drops according to the Age and strength of the Patient Spiritus Lavandulae or Spirit of Lavander Take of Brandified Spirit three Gallons of Lavander Flowers twelve pound Oyl of Salt per deliquium two pound macerate in a gentle warmth ten or twelve days then Distill in Bal. as long as goodness comes in which macerate one pound of the Oyl of Salt per del and eight pound of fresh Flowers and Distill as before Lastly Rectifie from six pound of Flowers per se and so it is prepared Its Virtues 'T is excellent for all Diseases of the Head as Megrims Epilepsies Convulsions and Calentures as also for violent and inveterated Head-Achs here it is a Specifick it is prevalent in fortifying the Animal Spirits and good in the Cholick Strangury and Dysentery the over much Flowing of Womens Terms and all other Fluxes of Blood The Dose and manner of Administration is as the former Observe after this way is prepared the Spirit of Rosemary but seeing we have at large showed its right and genuine Preparation in Chapter the fourth together with its virtues and use we shall omit it here Spiritus Angelicae or Spirit of Angelica Take of Angelica in its right signature as much as you please pound it in a large Stone Mortar with a Wooden Pestil and putting it into your Still cover it over a Fingers breadth with pure Brandified Spirit and with a piece of Leaven let it macerate three or four days then Distill as long as goodness will come repeat this a second time with fresh Herbs then to every Gallon of Spirit add of Spanish Angelica Roots sliced thin two pound and rectifie therefrom the fine Spirit you must reserve for use and the other may serve for a new beginning Its Virtues 'T is very prevalent against all Poison and Infectious corrupted Airs the Pestilential Fever or Plague it carries off the Venom by Sweat and Urine and insensible Transpiration it comforts the Heart and Vital Spirits and therefore excellent to be used by such as are bitten with any Venomous or Mad Beast whatsoever 't is powerful in opening the Obstructions of the Liver or Spleen bringing down the Terms and expelling the Secundine The Dose is from one Scruple to three in a Glass of Spanish or Rhenish Wine Spiritus Croci or Spirit of Saffron Take of the best English Saffron one pound of Malaga Sack a Quart Honey half a pound Chrystals of Tartar four ounces let the Chrystals of Tartar be beat very well with the Saffron in a Mortar then put it into a Glass and add in your Honey and Wine lute all fast and in a gentle heat let them Ferment and macerate ten twelve or fourteen days the longer the better then take off the blind head and add in three Quarts of the Sulphurated Spirit of Wine put on its Helm with a proper recipient being truly adapted lute all fast and Distill in Balneo the two first Quarts will be the true Spirit Observe from what remains with fresh Spirit of Wine you may draw the Extract which though small in quantity yet virtuous The Spirits Virtues 'T is an excellent Cordial Fortifying the Vital Natural and Animal Spirits 't is a great Preservative in time of Plague 't is beyond all the cooling Cordials in England for Measles and Small Pox for it strengthens the Heart it opens Obstructions and heals the Phthisick it brings breath when almost gone and 't is said to prolong Life if you wash the Face with it mixt with Rose Water in the time of Small Pox and Measles it preserves the Face and Eyes from being hurt thereby The Dose is from ten to twenty and from twenty to sixty Drops in some Cordial Julep or Wine as the Patient best likes Spiritus Dauci or Spirit of Daucus Take of Wild Carrotseed twelve pound beat them small put them into your Still and add thereunto of the Sulphurated Spirit of Wine three Gallons of Mevis Sugar three pound macerate them for ten or twelve days and then Distill off one half the which preserve for Spirit the other half may be run off for fresh beginnings You may if you please put it all together on fresh Seeds and make another Reiteration Its Virtues It is a Carminative breaking and consuming Windiness good in the Gripes and Cholick Fits of the Mother provoking the Terms in fine 't is good in the Strangury Dysury Gravel and Stone and provokes Urine The Dose is from thirty to sixty Drops proper at all times for such as are subject to the forementioned Diseases but principally when mostly therewith assaulted Thus Reader have we laid you down examples sufficient for the making of simple Waters and Spirits so that if you have but an ordinary Genius you may arrive to what you desire therein and if you can't attain to the Art of Distillation by these plain rules and precepts contained in this Book then do we highly doubt whether you 'll ever be able to attain it but by Ocular Demonstration therefore our advice is that you should apply your self to some honest Distiller for you may learn more of him in six Weeks time than in years by your own Study and chargeable operations and therefore count it a considerable favour if such an one will be thy Friend yet have we done here to our utmost to serve you and according to our twenty years experience have left nothing deficient not so much as a tittle If you proceed therein Secundum Artem Distillationis which is impossible to be delivered in writing
or Lunar Salt doth not only measurably supply this defect but also enrich and meliorate Spirits for having prepared your Magnet we shall give you the use of it in sweetning of Spirits Take of any sort of ill smelling Spirit or Brandy made from Corn one part of pure spring water two parts mix them together that so the stinking and ingrateful Savours may diffuse themselves into the added water having so done you must again free this Brandy thus tempered with the water by putting your Magnet thereinto and so will you draw therefrom all the stinkingness and 't is then just as if you had washed that Wine and rinsed off all it's filth without any charge or difficulty for the Magnet or exalted Salt desires not to contract friendship with any Impurity N. B. It remaining the same as before being freed from its flegm so that this Work is neither chargable nor difficult therefore the principal business is to be Master of such a Salt the virtues whereof are known by Experience because some years ago we have prepared it and are now again preparing of it altho at present the quantity that we have by us is very inconsiderable as having lost above two pound three ounces of it by the misfortunate breaking of a glass in a considerable Tryal for which great loss we often lament our unhappy mischance seing we might have been more wary in making smaller Tryals but this we shall pass by hoping that Providence may in due time multiply our Stores if not we must learn to be content submitting our will to the Divine Pleasure who distributes of his Riches and Gifts in his own time and there is no obtaining of it by force 't is his own free Gift so that if it is not again bestowed on us we may say with Helmont God Almighty knows for why he hath given the Goat so short a Tail peradventure we use not the Tallent bestowed upon us aright for we are convinced in our conscience that had we applyed it the genuin way it might have been helpful to hundreds that languish c. We having run through what is necessary to be treated off as to this Part shall Conclude the same only we think it Convenient to add this following and general Head Containing as it were a Summary of our Labours being an Answer to the Request of a Person of Worth which is as follows Worthy Friend IN Answer to your earnest Desire I have given you the Heads of my Books Printed and those ready for the Press First you have our Britannean Magazine or Assays to Artificial Wines which God willing we intend suddenly to Correct and Enlarge with Experimental Additions Secondly Cerevisiarii Comes or the Art of Brewing Containing the Grounds thereof proved and demonstrated by sound Philosophy Thirdly Chymicus Rationalis or the Chymical Art rationally stated and demonstrated by a short but effectual Course containing the Heads of the chief Medicines so highly valu'd Fourthly this said Treatise which is the Art of Distillation Compleat to which is added the Doctrine of the Nature and Preparation of Vegetable Powers Fifthly Spagyrick Philosophy Asserted or the true Physical Principles demonstrated by way of Answer to that Learned Dr. Boylwharf in which the Foundation and Preparation of true Specificks are so delivered as easily distinguishable from those pretended to be such by the Pseudo-Chymists a Work highly necessary and as much desired and therefore God willing as soon as may be shall see the Light Sixthly Speculum Morborum in which you may see various Opinions concerning the Original of Diseases and also discern the true Nature thereof Seventhly Medicina Rationalis or the whole body of Physick rationally stated upon a new Hypothesis containing not only the Original and Definition of Diseases but also their Cure Eighthly Historia nova de Thesauro Britannioe interno Celato or a new History containing the yet undiscovered Mysteries of Englands Gloay and unspeakable Riches which may be obtained by the true advancing of its Vegetables and Minerals by a multiplying and concentrating the Universal Spirit Ninthly The Magicians Magazine or the Wise-man's Store-house containing the chief and profitable Heads of all the Voluminous Writings of the Ancient Philosophers Tenthly Our Ideas of Divine and Natural Things being a Philosophical Discourse of the Macro and Microcosmical World all which shall be hastned with what possible speed can be so that I hope in the mean while you will accept of what is done for that our Resolutions are to improve our Talent according to the Abilities given and that for the Benefit of such as prefer realities as they are delivered For we can truly say in what we have done we have cleared our Conscience towards the Sons of Art as for my rewards I expect it at the Final End if I persevere in Christian Duties only to be the Sentence of Well done thou good and faithful Servant Hence forth is prepared for thee a Crown of Bliss Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for and Sold by John Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard In Folio THE Travels of Monsieur Thevenot into the Levant in three Parts viz. into Persia Turkey and the East-Indies Rushworth's Historical Collections Dr. Goad's Aphorisms of the Weather Tarsis and Leile a new Romance Book of Homilies for Churches Smith's Christians Religions Appeal In Quarto Mr. Love's Compleat Surveyor or the Art of Measuring Land made easy in a more exact Method than hitherto Extant Curious Enquiries in six Discourses viz. of the Longitude the Tricks of Astrological Quacks of the Depth of the Sea of Tobacco of Europe's being too full of People the various Opinions concerning the Time of keeping the Sabboth Mr. Strode's new and easy method of the Art of Dyalling Several Letters written by French Protestants refug'd in Germany concerning the Unity of the Church Foxes and Fire-brands or the Harmony of Popery and Separation Arch-Bishop Cranmer's Judgment concerning the Holy Scripaures Published by Edmund Gee with a Preface The present French King drawn to the Life Angliae Decus Tutamen or the Glory and Safety of this Nation under our present King and Queen The Church of Englands Doctrine of Non-resistance Justified and Vindicated as truly rational and Christian by Lewis Sharp Rector of Morton-Hamstead-Deoon In Octavo Mr. Boyl's Free Enquiry into Nature in English and Latine His Disquisition about the final Causes of natural things with a Tract of Vitiated sight His Martyrdom of Theodora and Dydimus His Christian Virtuoso Experimenta Observationes Physicae Wherein are briefly treated of several Subjects relating to Natural Philosophy with a Collection of strange reports Quintilian's Declamations in English with the Approbation of several eminent School-Masters of Lond. Lord Vicount Shanon's Moral Essays on several Subjects relating to the present times Reasons why a Protestant should not turn Papist Le Grand's Historia Sacra Situation of Paradice found out Dr. Owen's Meditation of the Glory of Christ Osborn's Works Divine Moral Historical and Political Dr. Newton's Compleat Arithmetician A double Grammar for Germans to learn English and for English to learn the German Tongue In Twelves The Modern Courtier Dr. Salmon's New Method of Cuting the French Pox wherein is the Practise of an eminent French Author with the Method of Monsieur Blauchard as also Dr. Sydenham's Judgment on the same Rider's Practical Surgery in Observat Cases and Cures both for Sea and Land Galliae notitia Or the Present state of France containing a general Description of that Kingdom Mr. Gouge's Young man's Guide and Word to Saints and Sinners Minelius on Virgil. Dyer's Works History of the Wars of York and Lancaster Mr. Evelin's French Gardener Bishop Hall of Contentment An Exposition of the Church Catechism History of Lysander and Sabina A Novel Observations on the Mineral Watch in France Books newly Published Dr. Salmon's Medicina Practica or Practical Physick shewing the Method of Curing the most usual Diseases happening to human Bodies to which are added the Philosophick Works of Hermes Trismegist Kalid Persicus Geber Arabs Artefius Langoevus Nicholas Flammel Roger Scriptures and George Ripley Compleat in three Books Cervisiarii Comes or the newest and truest Art of Brewing Illustrated by various Examples in making Beer Ale and other Liquors so that they may be most durable and fragrant with the true method of making Salt Water Fresh and the Art of manuring Lands by W. Y-worth M. P. Miracles Performed by Money A Poem Just Published The true Interest of Familys or Directions how Parents may be happy in their Children the Children in their Parents to which is Added a Discourse about the right way of improving our time by a Divine of the Church of England with a Preface by Ant. Horneck D. D. A Sermon at the Funeral of the Hon. Rob. Boyle at St. Martin's in the Fields by the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum Mr. Boy 's Seraphick Love c. General Heads for the Natural History of a Country Great or Small drawn out for the use of Travellers and Navigators Imparted by the late Honorable Rob. Boyle Fellow of the Royal Society Ordered to be Published in his Life time at the Request of some Curious Persons to which is Added other Directions for Navigators c. with particular Observations of the most noted Countries in the World by another hand Finis