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A39317	The curious distillatory, or, The art of distilling coloured liquors, spirits, oyls, &c. from vegitables, animals, minerals and metals ... containing many experiments ... relating to the production of colours, consistence and heat ... : together with several experiments upon the blood (and its serum) of diseased persons, with divers other collateral experiments / written originally in Latin by Jo. Sigis. Elsholt ; put into English by T.S. ...; Destillatoria curiosa. English	Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund, 1623-1688.; Sherley, Thomas, 1638-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing E638; ESTC R16178	39,136	125

And if these as it were Atomes shall by length of time be united they will be carried to the top of the Liquor and there will shew themselves small Oyly drops of a Golden colour leaving the Water clear although that Oyl if it be somewhat more plentiful doth usually at last fall to the bottom Nor ought this so to be interpreted as if this milky Colour were only proper to Cinamon water for it appeareth also in the Water of Cloves Nutmegs and the rest of waters drawn from Spices But I thought fit to name Cinamon above the rest because as we said a little before it doth excel other Waters And also because it is more frequently used every where CHAP. XV. Of Corrals THere are three kinds of Corrals Red Black and White The White may also conveniently be distinguished into branched starred joynted and that which is warty or knobby There is also a sort of Corral which is Red without and Black within But that which is prised above the rest in Medicine is the Red called the Male Corral of which Pedac Dioscorides lib. 5. cap. 139. Thus Sea Corral is a Shrub which drawn to the top of the Water growth hard presently and swims and as it is incompassed with aire it concretes or hardens Much of it is found in a Promontory by Syracuse The name of which is Pachyno The most commended is the Red sort of the Colour of a Daffidil stalk or of the deep coloured Sardix or Orient bright Purple Being of a long and round figure easy to break and of a like hardness in every part of it again it is of the scent of Oreweed or Sea-grass It is very full of small branches and is like in form to the Shrub Cinamon The like description to this Pliny hath lib. 32. Histo. Natur. but that he erroneously alledgeth that these Berries or litle Balls which are worn for ornament about womans Necks do grow of their own accord on this small Sea tree for it is sufficiently known at this day that they are made by Turning and that also might as well have been known heretofore Of the same reddish Beads is to be understood the most antient of Poets Orpheus in his peculiar verses of Corral in which he elegently prosecutes the vertues of it and the Fables of it also Concerning this bright sparkling Corral whether or no the true tincture of its genuine Colour can be extracted hath been already examined The Solutions made with Iuice of Lemmons or of Barberries although they delight us with a false shew yet they will not answer the thing designed Neither also will those Liquors which after abstraction remain of a Red Colour in the bottom of the Vessel Of this sort may be seen many Processes or Methods in Anselm Boetius lib. 11. Histor. Gemm Lapid cap. 154. But many more in Io. Lodov. Gansius Histor. Corral caput 7. Also amongst other late Authors The business consists in this point that a reason may be shewed how without the addition of any suspected thing there may be drawn either by Alimbeck or Retort a Red Liquor from Corrals that is a Genuine and true Tincture Expirement 1. The forecited Io. Lodov. Gansius sect 8. doth testifie that it was sometime observed by the famous Physitian of his time Iac. Zuingerus That a Tincture might be drawn by distillation in an Alimbeck if the Corral being made into a very fine Calx or Powder and being well digested with Spirit of Wine it be distilled nine times first with a gentle distillation afterwards forced over with a vehement heat so that the Water will come forth first Yellow and at last Red which is believed to be the Tincture Experiment 2. The same Gansius in the same chap. sect 16. hath this following Let the Powder of Corral be calcined with Spirit of Salt then wash the Calx with distilled water that the saltishness may be taken away After which extract it by adding Spirit of Wine Let the extractions poured back again upon the Corrals be distilled so long till the Tincture ascends by the Alimbeck From this separate the Spirit by a Balneo Note in this place that what is extracted is always to be circulated ten days space and after each time to be cohobated or poured back again and distilled This is to be done six times always adding new Spirit The Red Colour is said to come forth in the fifth distillation and in the sixth a Powder altogether Red will remain at the bottom Experiment 3. Agreeable to this way is that of Conradus Kunrath in his Medulla Distillatoria Tract 10. written upon Corral which therefore at this time we will not repeat but leave untouched Experiment 4. Daniel Sennertus lib. 5. institut Medic. pag. 3. sect 3. cap. 9. laies down the following way Let Corral dissolved in Vinegar be impregnated with Spirit of distilled Vinegar till the Salt will receive no more of that Spirit which is performed thus To one pound of Corrals add two ounces of the strongest Vinegar and distil it gently there will only distil from it an insipid phlegm The second time add to the Corrals three ounces of Vinegar and distil it again and so proceed every time adding of one Ounce of Vinegar more than formerly and continuing this so long till the Vinegar distil as sharp and strong from the Salt of Corral as it is put upon it Let the Salt so impregnated be digested for thirty days in Balneo Mariae or a Bath of hot Water and afterwards distill it in a close Reverberatory by a Retort but so that the Phlegm may be received first by it self and then the White Spirits by themselves till all the Spirits are come forth together with an Oyl Red as Blood This Spirit is to be rectified by an Alimbeck and the Red Oyl will remain at the bottom But this Spirit poured upon fresh Corral doth extract a Red Tincture like to Gum Lacca which if it be again freed from this Spirit by distillation and the Corrals be joyned with Spirit of Wine or some Cordial Water and by distilling and cohobation it will be made volatile and will then be the Tincture of Corral Experiment 5. Also this following is a compendious way Take of Red Corrals three ounces and of Sugar half a pound being finely bruised and mixed distil them in a Retort and you will see a Red Liquor to come forth But it is not to be doubted concerning these Operations that this Redness is hardly due to the Corrals but is more owing to the Spirit of Salt Salt of Vinegar Sugar and the like additions and much of it also to long digestions Insomuch that these sort of Tinctures are rather to be taken for Analogous then Genuine until the Fates grant us the true one And truly whilst I am writing this there is come to my hand the Epistle of that most excellent man Dr. Ioel Langelot chief Physitian of the Duke of Holsteen my most Noble Friend De quibusdam

Gemm cap. 269. But whether or no the following Experiment be much noted I know not and therefore will set it down Cast into a vessel of Brass or Iron with a Flat botom Alablaster or in stead of it Plaister of Paris very finely grown'd and sifted some pounds weight Apply Fire to it by degrees even to the utmost height And you shall see this Stony Powder to put on the form of a Liquor and to boyl like Waves sending up White Vapours resembling Smoak moreover if you then stir it with a Stick you will not find it to resist the motion of your hand like Sand but to yeild like Liquor which thing truly doth produce no small delight to the curious Spectator as Mr. Boyl doth witness of himself in his History of Fluidity Sect. 18. where he addeth more notes and cautions upon this thing 7. It is also a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a species of attenuation by which Salt of Tartar is dissolved into a Liquor per deliquium And amongst Natures works it is an Illustrious Attenuation by which the thickest Ice of Rivers in the Spring time is dissolved by the heat of the Sun 8. But that we may also come to the Phaenomena or appearances of Coagulation amongst those which are best known is that of making Bread whilst the Bakers by mixing Water with Flower or Meal coagulate it into a Mass to make Bread out of The like but more compounded work is that of the Confectioner who mixeth together Butter Sugar Egs and divers other ingredients 9. But there is hardly extant a more domestick or familiar Example than the coagulation of Milk whether it be performed by Calves or Lambs Runnit or by juice of Limons or by sowre Herbs Spirit of Vitriol or other acid Salt by which means the fluid substance of the Milk separates it self from the whey and suddenly joyns together into a cheesy Mass. 10. In the Canary Islands they thicken by boyling the fluid juice of Canes and Reeds into innumerably useful and most sweet Sugar And on the contrary in the Island of Succotra they make Aloes of the juice of a Plant which is so exceeding bitter that it is become a nick-name for other bitter things You will have a large account of coagulations of this nature in the Philosophical Essay of Petrification written by the Translator of this Treatise and printed Anno 1672. Nay without Art or Labour Water is converted into Stone in divers dens And to omit other Countrys the Cave called Baumanus's Cave not far from the Mountain Bructer in the great Forest of Hircinia in Germany in which not only Waters are turned into stony Icicles but also there is found a wonderful company of the Bones of Animals but from what Original or how they came there is yet uncertain Eleventhly But as to what concerns Minerals If you mix the best Vrinous Spirit of Sal Armoniack equal parts with the most dephlegm'd Spirit of Wine they will set or fall to the bottom of the Glass in the manner of Icy flakes or rather like Snow For whilst the Acrimony of the Armoniack Spirit is blunted and mitigated by the sweetness of the Spirit of Wine the crisped and sharp pointed Particles of the Salt falling to the bottom and others falling still upon them they represent the form of Snow Twelfthly If Spirit of common Salt be mixed with the Acid Spirit of Sal Armoniack not with the Salt Urinous one then at first the mixture will grow hot and presently it will be troubled and thick and at length it will begin to conjoyn together plainly in the form of Butter Thirteenthly If there be mixed together equal parts of highly rectified Spirit of Wine and exquisitely dephlegm'd Spirit of Vrine they will coagulate by agitating them in a quarter of an hours time first into the form of Snow and a little after into a solid Mass. But unless both the Spirits be freed from all Phlegm this business will want success As Mr. Boyl doth prudently admonish in his History of Fluidity and Firmness Part 2. Sect. 32. Fourteenthly Beat the white of an Egg even to thinness then mix with it half as much of the best Spirit of Salt and you shall see this mixture will coagulate even in a few Minutes of an hour by agitating it Fifteenthly Many have attempted di●●●s ways to coagulate the most Fluid Body of Quicksilver Io. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Part 1. Pag. 35. proposeth his way And that I may omit others Thomas 〈◊〉 now hath propounded his Cent. 1. Num. 79. But the most exquifite and no less certain way is by the vapour of Lead if you make a hole with a Stick in melted Lead being removed from the Fire and beginning to cool then sprinkle some Ashes into the Hole and nimbly pour in the Quicksilver and so the Vapour ascending from the Lead will congeal it although there are not wanting those which doubt of this coagulation But the Translator of this Treatise hath experimented it to be true Sixteenthly 'T is a more difficult operation which I make use of to procure a yellow coagulated Mercury for I take of Quicksilver one ounce of rust of Brass and common Salt of each an ounce and a half Wine Vinegar a pound or pint boyl them in an Iron frying-Pan the space of an hour or two continually stirring them with an Iron Spatula till at length the Mercury coagulate into an Amalgame which afterwards wash several times from the Salt and then form it into little Balls the bigness of Pease These little Balls being exposed to a temperate Air after a few hours will harden of then own accord But if you have a mind also to induce a colour upon this coagulated Mercury then take of Turmerick roots fourteen Drams and of prepar'd Tutia one ounce and mixing them together make with the Balls Stratum super Stratum that is one row of the Powders and another of the Balls and so do till you have filled up a Crucible which lute well that nothing may expire Let it stand at first in a gentle fire that the matter may dry afterwards for an hour or more apply a strong fire to it then take it off and after it is cold melt it as they use to do Metals and pour it into an Ingot and you will have a Mass very much resembling Rhenish Gold of which may be made Rings Bracelets and Medals If there be any body that will not allow this Mass any longer to participate of the Quicksilver I will not contest with him because others which are acquainted with that Planet will not be induced easily to believe that it can freely endure a vehement fire for an hour together Observations upon Blood and its Serum How much the Blood within is altered by attenuating or coagulating it by means of Mineral Spirits injected into the Veins of Brutes hath long since been declared by us in Clysmatica Nova cap. 5. But moreover we have tryed many things