without any vessels to contain the matter being put into it sublime Minerals and distill all manner of Oils and Spirits 82 A lamp Furnace 146. 148 G. GLasses to nip or seal Hermetically 7 A Glasse Gourd 44 To reduce Glasse into Sand and Salt 132 Oile Tincture of Gold 166. 167. 178. 179. To make Gold grow in a Glasse 181. 182. To make Gold increase in the Earth Observations upon a Golden Marchasite 182 The vertues of the preparations of Gold 183 Oil of Gums 36. 37. H. WAter and Oil of Hair 92 Spirit of Harts-horn 91 A sudorifick of the young buds of Harts-horn 101 Harts horn seemingly to grow in a Glasse 128 To reduce the whole Hearb into a liquor 32 To make the Idea of any Hearb appear in a Glasse 32 To make the Quintâ—ssence of any Hearb 32 Homunculus of Paracelsus 114 Water Quintessence of Honey 93 Essence of Honey 94 Vinegar of Honey 95 An Hydropicall water 50 Hypocras Aromaticall 120 A Triple Hypocras bag Hypocras Wine made in an instant 121. 122 Hystericall water 61 I. OIl of Jasmine 40 Aqua Imperialis 47 Spirit of Ivory 91 K. Kunraths Aqua Magnanimitatis 99 L. WAter of Lapis Armenus 81 Oil of Lapis Calaminaris 79 Spirit of Lead 72 Spirit of Lime unstaked 80 Liquor restorative 96 Liquor thick and muddy to purifie 143 To fortifie a Loadstone that it shall be able to draw a Nail out of a peece of Wood 131 Lutes for Glasses 4 M. A Qua Magnanimitalis of Kunrath 99 Aqua Magnanimitatis another 100 Malmsey Artificiall 120 Spirit of Manna 33 Aqua Mariae 60 Mead or Metheglin to make Stale in a Fortnight 123 A Medicine that half a grain taken every morning will keep the body soluble 138 Dissolving Menstruums 44 45 Oil of Mercury To turn Mercury into water 74 Oil of Metals 71 Any Metal to melt in ones hand without burning of the hand 134 To prove what kind of Metall is in any Ore by a few grains of it 164 Water of Milk 92 Aqua Mirabilis 48 From the rays of the Moon to extract a Milkie substance 136 Mother water 61 A perpetuall Motion in a Glasse 129 Golden Mountaine to make appear in a Glasse 128 Elixir of Mummie 90 Oil of Myrrhe 38 Oil of Myrrhe per deliquium 39 O. OIls by expression Oils vomitive and purging 39 Oil per descensum 40 Oâ—ls thick black and stinking to rectifie 43 Oils of minerals to rectifie 88 Oil Olive to make smell and tast sweet 124 Oils to distill out of any Hearb Seed c. in an instant without a Furnace 140 Oil lasting and durable 149 P. PAlsey water of Matthias 56 Pearl Artificiall 132 Pectorall water 49 The form of a Pellican 27 A Perfume minerall 132 Plague water 52 To make a Plant grow in two or three Houres 126 To make the Idea of a Plant appear in a Glasse 127 A Powder that by spitting upon shall be inflamed 130 A cheap Powder like unto Aurum Fulminans 165 Purging water operating without pain 62 Q TO turn Quicksilver into water without mixing any thing withâ—t 73 To make Quick silver Malleable in 7 houres 131 R. OIl of Rosins c. 37 Retorts 64 Spirit of Roses 34 S. SPirit of Salt 63 Another 64 Salt Peter water Spirit of Salt Armoniac 65 Spirit of Salt to dulcifie 66 How two volatile Salts will be fired by joining them together 137 An observation upon the melting of Salt Armoniack and Calx vive together 165 Oil of Sand Flints c. 132 Scorbuticall water 57 Oyl of Seeds 35 The preparation of Silver A green Tincture of Silver 185 A green oil of Silver Oil of Silver per deliquium A liquor of Silver that shall make the glasse where in it is so cold that no man is able to hold his hand on it any long time 186 S. TO make Silver as white as Snow The Silver tree of Philosophers 187 A Cold Still 17 A Hot Still 25 The Smaragdine table of Hermes from whence all Alchimy did arise 191 Oil of Snakes 97 Quintessence of Snakes 98 Oil of Soot Water of Soot 41 Spirits to rectifie 42. 88. To make Steel grow in a Glasse like a Tree 134 Doctor Stephens water 48 Stone in the Kidneys a water against 54. 55. Pretious Stones Artificiall of all sorts ond colours 162 The processe of the Philosophers Stone according to Pontanus 190 A specificall Sudorifick 59 A Sudorificall water 87 Oil of Sugar 38 Sugar to refine 126 Oil of Sulphur per Campanum 67 Oil of Sulphur Essence of Sulphur 68 An observation upon the heat of the Sun and heat of the fire how they adde weight to the Metalline and Minerall bodies 135 Surfeit water 48 Water of Swallows 101 T. OIl of Talk 78. 79 Oil of Tartar per deliquium 39 Spirit of Turpentine 36 Oil of Tile stones 80 A Tincture Cordiall Stomachicall and purgative 138. 139 An observation upon the melting of Tin and Copper together 164 Liquor against the Tooth ach 62 Treacle water 60 Treacle water Camphorated of Crollius 53 Treacle Vinegar 54 To reduce distilled Turpentine into its body again 140 V. TO make a Vapour in a Chamber that he that enters into it with a Candle shall think the room on fire 130 Any Vegetable spirit to make 30 Spirit of Vegetables to make suddenly at any time of the year To make a Vegetable yeeld his Spirit quickly 31 Essence Quintessence of any Vegetable 33 Chymicall oil of any Vegetable 34 To make Vegetables yeeld their Oiles easily 36 To make a Vegetable become more glorious then any of its species 126 Water and Tincture of any Vegetable to make at the same time 141 Water against the Vertigo 51 Quintessence of Vipers Viper Wine 98 Oil or Spirit of Vitrioll 65 Oil of Vitriol 66 Spirit of Vitrioll to dulcifie 66 Liquor of Vitrioll vomitive 66 Ros Vitrioli 86 Green Oil of Vitrioll 86 Sulphur of Vitrioll 87 An Unguent that outwardly applyed will cause vomiting or loosenesse which you please 137 Vomiting water Vomiting water of Platerus 61 Spirit of Urine simple 92 Spirit of Urine compound 93 Usquebath 45 W. TO make Water in a cold Still which shall have the smell and vertue of the vegetable 17 Anotherway Another 18 To make Water at any time of the year in a cold Still without green Hearbs so that the Water shall smell strong of the Hearb 18 To make Water of Jasmine Violets c. retain the smell of the Flower 19 Water per descensum 40 Water against wormes 50 Water for wounds 55 Anatomy of Water Spagyricall 105 Sweet Water 123 Luminous Water to give light by night 129 To separate fresh Water from Salt 141 To purifie muddy Water 142 Tumbridge and Epsome Water Artificiall 160 Oil of Wax 95 Spirit of Wine to rectifie Magistery of Wine 26 Another Oil of Wine 27 Spirit of Wine to extract by Spirit of Wine Spirit of Wine very subtle at the first distilling 28 Anatomy of Wine Spagyricall 111
commonly called the spirit of Roses Take of Damask or Red Roses being fresh as many as you please infuse them in as much warm water as is sufficient for the space of twenty four hours Then strain and press them and repeat the infusion severall times with pressing untill the liquor become fully impregnated which then must be distilled in an Alembick with a refrigeratory or Copper Still with a worm let the spirit which swims on the water be separated and the water kept for a new infâ—sion This kind of spirit may be made by bruising the Roses with Salt or laying a lane of Roses and another of Salt and so keeping them half a year or more which then must be distilled in as much common water or Rose water as is sufficient Oils are made out of seeds thus Take of what seeds you please bruised two pound of spring water twenty pints let them be macerated for the space of 24. hours and then be distilled in a copper Still with a worm or Alembick with its refrigerating The oil extracted with the water being separated with a tunnell keep the water for a new Distillation This Water after three or four distillations is a very excellent water and better then is drawn any way out of that vegetable whereof these are seeds I mean for vertue though not always for smell After the same manner are made oils out of spices and aromaticall woods Oils are made out of Berries thus Take of what Berries you please being fresh 25. pound bruise them and put them into a wooden vessell with 12 pints of spring water and a pound of the strongest leaven let them be put in a cellar the vessel being close stopped for the space of three months then let them be distilled in an Alembick or copper Still with their refrigeratory with as much spring water as is sufficient After the separation of the oil let the water be kept for a new distillation Note that the water being used in two or three Distillations is a very excellent water and full of the vertue of the Berries Oil is made out of any solid Wood thus Take of what Wood you please made into gross powder as much as you will let it be put into a Retort and distilled in sand The oil which first distils as being the thinner and sweeter must be kept apart which with rectifying with much water may yet be made more pleasant the acid water or spirit which in distilling comes first forth being separated which also being rectified from the flegm with the heat of a Balneum may be kept for use being full of the vertue of the wood After the same manner are made the oil and spirit of Tartar but thus much note that both are more pure and pleasant being made out of the Crystals then out of the crude Tartar To make a most excellent oil out of any Wood or Gummes in a short time without much cost Take of what Wood you please or Gumme bruised small put it into a vessel fit for it then pour on so much of spirit of salt as will cover your matter then set it in sand with an Alembick make the spirit boil so all the oil flyeth over with a little flegm for the spirit of salt by its sharpnesse freeth the oil so that it flyeth over very easily The spirit of salt being rectified may serve again To make vegetables yeeld their oil easily Distill them being first bruised in salt water for salt freeth the oil from its body Let them first be macerated three or four days in the said water Oil or Spirit of Turpentine is made thus Take of Venice Turpentine as much as you please of spring water four times as much let them be put into an Alembick or copper Still with its refrigeratory then put fire under it so there will distil a thin white oil like water and in the bottom of the vessel wil remain a hard gum called Colophonia which is called boiled Turpentine That white oil may be better and freer from the smell of the fire if it be drawn in Balneo with a gourd and glass head Common oil Olive may be distilled after this manner and be made very pleasant and sweet also most unctious things as Sperma ceti Oil of Gums Refines fat and oily things may be drawn thus Take of either of these which you please being melted a pound mix it with three pound of the powder of tiles or unslaked lime put them into a Retort and extract an oil which with plenty of water may be rectified Note that the water from whence the oil is separated is of excellent vertue according to the nature of the matter from whence it is drawn Oil of Camphire is made thus Take of Camphire sliced thin as much as you please put it into a double quantity of Aqua fortis or spirit of Wine let the glasse having a narrow neck be set by the fire or on sand or ashes the space of five or six hours shaking the glasse every half hour and the Camphire will all be dissolved and swim on the Aqua fortis or spirit of Wine like an oil Note that if you separate it it will all be hard agâ—in presently but not otherwise Another way to make Oile of Camphire that it shall not be reduced again Take of Camphire powdered as much as you please put it into a glass like a Urinal put upon it another Urinal-glass inverted the joints being close shut sublime it in ashes inverting those Urinals so often till the Camphire be turned into an oil then circulate it for the space of a month and it wil be so subtle that it will all presently vapour away in the air if the glass be open Another way to make oil of Camphire Take two ounces of Camphire dissolve it in four ounces or pure oil olive then put them into four pints of fair water distiâ— them all together in a glass gourd either in ashes or Balneo and there will distil both water and oil which separate and keep by it self All these kinds of oil of Camphire are very good against putrefaction fits of the Mother passions of the heart c. A few drops thereof may be taken in any liquor or the brest be anointed therewith Also the fume thereof may be taken in at the mouth A true Oil of Sugar Take of the best white Sugar-candie imbibe it with the best spirit of Wine ten times after every time drying it again then hang it in a white silken bag in a moist cellar over a glass vessell that it may dissolve and drop into it Evaporate the water in Balneo and in the bottome will the oil remain This is very excellent in all distempers of the Lungs Oil of Amber is made thus Take of yellow Amber one part of the powder of flints calcined or the powder of tiles two parts mingle them and put them into a Retort and distill them in sand The oil which is
specificall liquor A Water and Oyl made out of Hair Fill an earthen Retort with hair cut small set it over the fire and fit a Receiver to it and there will come over a very stinking Water and Oyl This water and Oyl is used in Germany to be sprinkled upon fences and hedges to keep wild and hurtfull Cattle from coming to do harm in any place for such is the stink of this liquor that it doth affright them from coming to any place near it Water of Milk is made thus Take of what Milk thou pleasest a gallon in it dissolve half a pound of salt and put to it two handful of Plantain and an ounce of Licorish sliced then distil it in a hot Stil with a gentle fire This water is of excellent use in hot distempers of the Lungs and Kidneys You may put in other ingredients according to the use you would have it for An excellent compound water of Milk for any inflammations in the eyes Take of womans milk a pint of white Copperas a pound distil them in ashes Note that assoon as thou perceivest any sharp spirit to come off then cease Let inflamed eyes be washed three or four times in a day with this water and it helpeth them wonderfully Spirit of Vrine is made thus Take of the Urine of a young man drinking much wine as much as you please let it stand in glass vessels in putrefaction 40 dayes then pouring it from its feces distil it in a glass gourd in sand til all be dry then cohobate the said spirit on the Caput Mortuum three times then distill it in a gourd of a long neck and there will ascend besides the spirit a crystalline salt which thou mayest either keep by it self being called the volatile salt of Urine or mix it with its spirit which will thereby become very penetrating if they be digested for some days together Note that the pipe of the head must be wide or else the volatile salt will soon stop it Note that this salt is so penetrating that it penetrateth the body of the glass This Spirit by rectification may be made so pure and subtle that it will burn as fire and dissolve gold and precious stones This being often applyed to any place pained with the gout easeth it presently it also quickens any part that is benummed The salt volatile is Helmonts famous Medicine for the Jaundies A compound Spirit of Vrine Take of Hungarian Vitriall a pound the Urine of a Boy that is healthy four pints put these into a glass vessel well closed that three parts of four may be empty digest them in Balneo for the space of a month then distil them in ashes til all be dry This spirit is of great vertue in the Epilepsie Gout Dropsie Convulsions being taken from two drams to half an ounce in some specifical Liquor To make a spirit of Honey Take good strong stale Mead otherwise called Metheglin as much as thou pleasest distil it in a Copper Stil or Alembick with its refrigeratory and it wil yeeld a spirit like Aqua vitae The quintessence of honey is made thus Take of the purest Honey two pound of Fountain water one pound boyl these together til the water be boyled away taking off all the scum that riseth then take the Honey and put it into a glass four parts of five being empty close it well and set in digestion a whole year and thou shalt have the essence of Honey swimming on the top in form of an Oyle being of as fragrant smel as any thing in the World the flegm wil be in the middle and the feculent matter in the bottome of a dark colour and stinking smel Some make the quintessence of Honey after this manner Take as much Honey as thou pleasest of the best put it into a gourd of glass first distil off the flegm in Balneo then extract the tincture out from what remains with the said water then calcine the remaining feces and extract from thence the salt with the foresaid water being distilled off from the tincture calcine the salt and melt it in a crucible then let it dissolve in a cellar then again evaporate it away and thou shalt have a most white salt which let imbibe as much of the tincture as it will digest them for three months and thou shalt have an essence of Honey An essence of Honey may be made thus Take of Honey wel despumated as much as you please pour upon it as much of the best rectified spirit of Wine as will cover it five or six fingers breadth digest them in a glass vessel wel closed the fourth part only being ful in a temperate Balneo the space of a fortnight or til the spirit be very wel tinged then decant off the spirit and put on more til all the tincture be extracted then put all these tinctures together and evaporate the spirit till what remains begin to be thickish at the bottome and of a golden colour This is a very excellent essence of Honey and is of so pleasant an odour that scarce any thing is like to it It is so cordial that it even revives the dying if two or three drops thereof be taken in some cordial water A most strong Spirit of the Vinegar of Honey Take a pound of Honey put to it of the best White wine vinegar six pints an ounce of white Pepper bruised smal of the strongest Mustard-seed bruised three ounces put these into a glass vessel that three parts of four may be empty digest them in a temperate Balneo or set the vessell in the sunne for the space of a fortnight then distil them in Balneo and thou shalt have a spirit farre sharper then the common spirit of Vinegar This spirit is stronger and better then any common distilled Vinegar for the dissolving of hard things and extracting the tinctures out of things Oyl or quintessence of Wax Take of the best Wax a pound as much of pure sand well washed from al its impurity and again dryed First melt the wax and then mix the sand with it very exactly then put them into a glass Retort well coated fit a strong Receiver to it and set it in sand give it fire by degrees continuing it four days which at last must be very strong and there wil come off a spirituous oyl which must be rectified seven times in a glass Retort every time changing the Retort and you shal have a subtle oyl of a golden colour This oyl extracts the vertues out of all flowers presently being set in the sun it is wonderful Balsamical for the cure of wounds or ulcers both inward and outward it also being applyed outwardly easeth all pains quickens any deaded member as in the palfie Water is made out of any flesh thus Take what flesh you please the bloudiest part thereof unwashed being cut very smal and then bruised or if it be a feathered fowl take it being chased up and down until it
of the more unskilfull and therefore of my self without exception to be polished by the more expert Artist I rejoyce as at the break of the day after a long tedious night to see how this solary art of Alchymie begins for to shine fâ—rth out of the clouds of reproach which it hath a long time undeservedly layen under There are two things which have a long time eclipsed it viz. the mists of ignorance and the specious lunary body of deceit Arise O Sun of truth and dispell these interposed fogs that the Queen of Arts may triumph in splendour If men did beleeve what this Art could effect and what variety there is in it they would be no longer straightned by nor bound up to or jurare in verba Galeni vel Aristoâ—elis but would now subscribe a new engagement to be true and faithfull to the principles of Heâ—mes and Paraceâ—sus as they stand established without Aristoâ—le their prince and Galen and Hippocrates their lords and masters They would no longer stand dreaming forth Sic dicit Galenus but Ipse dixit Hermes I desire not to be mistaken as if I did deny Galen his due or Hippocrates what is his right for indeed they wrote excellently in many things and deserved well thereby That which I cannot allow of in them is their strict observation of the quadruplicity of humours which in the schoole of Paracelsus and writings of Helmont where the Anatomy of humours hath been most rationally and fully discussed hath been sufficiently confuted and their confining themselves to such crude medicines which are more fit to be put into Spagyricall vessels for a further digestion then into mens bodies to be fermented therein Certainly if men were lesse ignorant they would preferre cordiall essences before crude juices balsamicall Elixirs before flegmatick waters the Mercury of philosophers before common quicksilver But many men have so little insight in this Art that they scarce believe any thing in it beyond the Distilling of Waters and Oils and extracting of Salts nay many that pretend to Philosophy and would be accounted Philosophers are so unbeleeving that as saith Sandivogius although he would have intimated the true Art to them word by word yet they would by no meanes understand or beleeve that there was any water in the Philosophers sea And as he in this case so I in another know divers that will not beleeve that common quicksilver can of it selfe be turned wholy into a transparent water or that glasse can be reduced into sand and salt of which it was made saying that fusio vitrificatoria est ultima fusio or that an hearb may be made to grow in two hours and the Idea of a plant to appear in a glasse as if the very plant it selfe were there and this from the essence thereof and such like preparations as these the two former whereof may be done in half an hour but the latter requires a longer time but yet possible And for the possibility of the Elixir you shall assoon perswade them to beleeve they know nothing which is very hard nay an impossible thing to do then to beleeve the possibility thereof If there be any such thing say they why are not the possessors thereof infinitely rich famous do many miracles and cures and live long These Objections especially some of them scarce deserve an answer yet I shall to shew the vanity of them make some reply thereunto Did not Artesius by the help of this medicine live 1000. yeares Did not Flammell build fourteen Hospitals in Paris besides as many in Boleigne besides Churches and Chappels with large revenews to them all Did not Bacon do many miracles and Paracelsus many miraculous cures Besides what saith Sandivogius I have saith he incurred more dangers and difficulties by discovering my self to have this secret then ever I had profit by it and whensoever I would discover my selfe to the great Ones it alwayes redounded to my prejudice and danger Can a man that carrieth alwaies about him 10000. pounds worth of Jewels and gold travel every where up and downe safe and not be robbed Have not many rich money-mongers been tortured into a confession where their money was concealed Did you never heare of a vapouring fellow in London that portending to the knowledge of this Mystery was on a suddaine caught aside by money-thirsters and by them tormented with tortures little lesse then those of hell being forced thereby if he had knowne it into a discovery of it To say nothing of being in danger of being subjected and enslaved to the pleasure of Princes and of becoming instrumentall to their luxury and tyranny as also being deprived of all liberty as once Raimundus Lullius The truth is the greatest matter that Philosophers aime at is the enjoyment of themselves for which cause they have sequestred themselves from the world and become Hermites Well therefore and like a Philosopher spake Sandivogius when he said Beleeve me if I were not a man of that state and condition that I â—m of nothing would be more pleasant to me then a solatary life or with Diogenes to live hid under a tub for I see all things in this world to be but vanity and that deceit and covetousnesse prevail much that all things are vendible and that vice doth excel vertue I see the better things of the life to come before mine eyes I rejoice in these Now I do not wonder as before I did why Philosophers when they have attained this medicine have not cared to have their daies shortned although by the vertue of their medicine they could have prolonged them for every Philosopher hath the life to come so cleerly set before his eyes as thy face is seen in a glasse Thus much by way of reply to the frivolous objections of those that beleeve not the verity of this Art and not onely so but will not beleeve it If you should discover to them the processe of the Philosophers stone they would laugh at your simplicity and I will warrant you never make use of it Nay if you should make projection before them they would think that even in that there were a fallacy so unbeleeving are they so I finde them and so I leave them and shall for ever finde them the same There is another sort of men by whom this Art hath been much scandalized and they indeed have brought a great Odium upon it by carrying about and vending their whites and reds their sophisticated oils and salts their dangerous and ill prepared Turbithes and vitae's And indeed it were worth while and I might do good service for the Nation to discover their cheats as their sophisticating of Chymicall oils with spirit of Turpentine and salts with salt extracted out of any wood-ashes and such like but here is not place for so large a discourse as this would amount to I shall only at this time relate to you how Penotus was cheated with a sophisticated Oil of gold for saith he I gave
are of various matter and forme For they may be either of Lead which I altogether disapprove of for that they turn the liquors into a white and milky substance beside the malignity they give to them or they may be of Copper Iron or Tin which are better then the former or of Jug-metall or Potters-metall glazed or Glasse which are the best of all where they may be used without fear of breaking or melting Some make them of silver but they are very chargeable They that are able and willing may have the benefit of them Of Lutes for coating of glasses and for Closures as also severall wayes of stopping glasses THe best Lute is made thus viz. Take of Loam and sand tempered with salt water which keeps it from cleaving to these adde the Caput Mortuum of Vitrioll or Aqua fortis and scaling of Iron and temper them well together and this serveth to coat Retorts or any glasse vessells that must endure a most strong fire and will never fail if well made Some adde Flax beaten Glasse and Pots and flint c. Take unslaked Lime and Linseed oil mix them wel together and make thereof a Lute which will be so hard that no spirit will pierce it and this serves for the closure of Glasses Or Take Loam and the white of an egge mix them into a paste and spread it on a cloth This also is a good closure Or Moisten an Ox bladder in the white of an egge beaten to water or in defect of a bladder use paper and bind them round where the vessells are joined together one over another two or three times Or If the spirits in the glasse be exceeding corrosive then use the Caput mortuum of Aqua fortis Linseed oil and chalk mixed together If a Glasse be cracked then wet a linnen cloth in the white of an egge beaten to water and lay upon it and upon that presently whilest it is wet sift some unslaked Lime and presse it close with your hand when that is dry lay on another cloth thus wet as before and on it sift more Lime A vessell may be stopt so close with Quicksilver that no spirit can breath forth by which means the glasse will be preserved from breaking by the inclosed spirits for the head will first yeild before the glasse breaks the Vessell must be made as the figure here-under sheweth This also is a good way to preserve spirits already distilled from the air A Signifies the head or cover B The body or vessell it self C The little glasse to take out the Liquor that is in the vessell because it cannot well be poured out as by reason of the Quick-silver which will be apt to be lost so by reason of the form of the Vessell it self D A false bottom where the Quick-silver must lye into which the head must be set upon the Quick-silver that so the Quick-silver may come above the bottome of the Head Also you may make stopples of Glasses ground so smooth that no vapour can get forth by them as you may see by this pattern A Signifies the â—topple of glasse ground very smooth and fit to the mouth of the Vessell B The glasse body But the best way is to have a crooked pipe which may have quick-silver in it and be well luted to the body that no spirit can get forth and by this means the glasse will never break for the quick-silver will first yeeld A The crooked pipe B The glasse body Or upon the top of a glasse stopple there may be fastned some lead that if the spirit be too strong it wil only heave up the stopple and let it fall down again C The glasse stopple with lead on the top D The mouth of the vessell it self Now the way to nip up â— glasse or seal it up Hermetically is after this manner PUt what matter you please into a bolt head with a long neck or pipe put this pipe through a pan that hath a little hole made in the bottom thereof that the top of it may be three or four inches above the pan close up the hole round about the pipe with clay then put coals in the pan and kindle first those that are furthest off from the pipe that the heat may come by degrees to the pipe for otherwise a sudden heat will break it when the pipe is hot blow the coals about it till it melt then with a pair of shears cut it off where it is melted and then with a pair of tongs close it together Note that after you have closed it you must put the burning coals upon the top thereof and let it thus stand till all be cold which must be done by degrees for otherwise the glasse will certainly crack in the place where it is nipped Note that the pan must stand upon some frame or some hollow place that there may be a passage for the pipe to come through it An Explanation of such hard words and terms of Art which are used in this ensuing Treatise A Malgamation is a calcining or corroding metals with quick-silver and it is done thus Take any metall except iron beaten into thin leafs or very small powder mix it with about 8. parts of quick-silver which may the better be done if both be heated first that they may become one uniform masse evaporate the quick-silver over the fire and the metall will be left in the bottom as a thin calx Calcination it a reducing any thing into a Calx and making it fryable and it may be done two wayes By firing By reducing into ashes By reverberating By Corosion By Amalgamation Precipitation Fumigation or vaporation Cementation or stratification Circulation is when any liquor is so placed in digestion that it shall rise up and fall down rise up and fall down and so do continually and thereby become more digested and mature for which use for the most part we use a Pelican Clarification is the separating of the grosse feces from any decoction or juice and it is done three wayes By the white of an Egge By digestion By filtration Coagulation is the reducing of any liquid thing to a thicker substance by evaporating the humidity Cohgbation is the frequent abstraction of any Ilquor poâ—â—ed oft-times on the feces from whence it was distilled by distillation Congelation is when any liquor being decocted to the height is afterward by setling into any cold place turned into a transparent substance like unto ice Corosion is the Calcining of bodyes by corrosive things D. Decantation is the pouring off of any liquor which hath a setling by inclination Deliquium is the dissolving of a hard body into a liquor as salt or the powder of any calcined matter c. in a moist cold place Descension is when the essentiall juice dissolved from the matter to be distilled doth descend or fall downward Despumation is the taking off the froth that floats on the top with a spoone or feather or by percolation Distillation
is the extracting of the humid part of things by vertue of heat being first resolved into a vapour and then condensed again by cold Thus it is generally taken but how more particularly I shall afterward shew Digestion is a concocting or maturation of crude things by an easie and gentle heat Dissolution is the turning of bodies into a liquor by the addition of some humidity Dulcoration or Dulcification is either the washing off the salt from any matter that was calcined therewith with warm water in which the salt is dissolved and the matter dulcified or it is sweetning of things with sugar or honey or syrup E. Elevation is the rising of any matter in manner of fume or vapour by virtue of heat Evaporation or Exhalation is the vapouring away of any moisture Exaltation is when any matter doth by digestion attain to a greater purity Expression is the extracting of any liquor by the hand or by a Presse Extraction is the drawing forth of an essence from a corporeall matter by some fit liquor as spirit of wine the feces remaining in the bottome F. Fermentation is when any thing is resolved into it self and is rarified and ripened whether it be done by any ferment added to it or by digestion only Filtration is the separation of any liquid matter from its feces by making it run through a brown paper made like a tunnell or a little bag of woollen cloth or through shreds Fixation is the making of any volatile spiritual body endure the fire and not flye away whether it be done by often reiterated distillations or sublimations or by the adding of some fixing thing to it Fumigation is the calcining of bodies by the fume of sharp spirits whether vegetable or minerall the bodies being laid over the mouth of the vessell wherein the sharp spirits are H. Hamectation or Irrigation is a sprinkling of moisture upon any thing I. Imbibition is when any dry body drinks in any moisture that is put upon it Impregnation is when any dry body hath drank in so much moisture that it will admit of no more Incorporation is a mixtion of a dry and moist body together so as to make an uniform masse of them Infusion is the putting of any hard matter into liquor for the virtue thereof to be extracted Insolation is the digesting of things in the Sun L. Levigation is the reducing of any hard matter into a most fine powder Liquation is a melting or making any thing fluid Lutation is either the stopping of the orifices of vessels that no vapour passe out or the coating of any vessell to preserve it â—rom breaking in the fire M. Maceration is the same as Digestion Maturation is the exalting of a substance that is immature and crude to be ripened and concocted Menstruum is any Liquor that serves for the extracting the essence of any thing P. Precipitation is when bodies corroded by corrosive spirits either by the evaporating of the spirits remain in the bottome or by pouring something upon the spirit as oil of Tartar or a good quantity of water do fall to the bottom Purification is a separation of any Liquor from its â—eces whether it be done by clarification filtration or digestion Putrefaction is the resolution of a mixt body into it self by a naturall gentle heat Q. Quintessence is an absolute pure and well digested medicine drawn from any substance either animall vegetable or minerall R. Rectification is either the drawing of the flegm from the spirit or of the spirit from the flegm or the exaltation of any Liquor by a reiterated distillation Reverberation is the reducing of bodies into a Calx by a reflecting flame S. Solution is a dissolving or attenuating of bodies Stratification is a strewing of corroding powder on plates of metall by course Sublimation is an elevating or raising of the matter to the upper part of the vessell by way of a subtle powder Subtiliation is the turning of a body into a Liquor or into a fine powder T. Transmutation is the changing of a thing in substance colour and quality V. Volatile is that which flyeth the fire Rules to be considered in Distillation 1. Make choice of a fit place in your house for the furnace so that it may neither hinder any thing nor be in danger of the falling of any thing into it that shall lye over it for a forcing Furnace it will be best to set it in a chimney because a strong heat is used to it and many times there are used brands which will smoak and the fire being great the danger thereof may be prevented and of things of a maligne and venenate qualitie being distilled in such a Furnace the fume or vapour if the glass should break may be carryed up into the chimney which otherwise will flye about the room to thy prejudice 2. In all kinds of Distillation the vessels are not to be filled too full for if you distill Liquors they will run over if other solider things the one part will be burnt before the other part be at all worked upon but fill the fourth part of Gourds the half of Retorts the third part of copper vessels and in rectifying of spirits fill the vessell half full 3. Let those things which are flatulent as wax rosin and such like as also those things which do easily boil up as honey be put in a lesser quantity and be distilled in greater vessels with the addition of salt sand or such like 4. There be some things which require a strong fire yet you must have a care that the fire be not too vehement for fear their nature should be destroyed 5. You must have a care that the lute with which vessels are closed do not give vent and alter the nature of the Liquor especially when a strong fire is to be used 6. Acid Liquors have this peculiar property that the weaker part goes forth first and the stronger last but in fermented and Liquors the spirit goeth first then the flegme 7. If the Liquor retain a certain Empyreuma or smatch of the fire thou shalt help it by putting it into a glass close stopt and so exposing it to the heat of the Sun and now and then opening the glass that the fiery impression may exhale or else let the glass stand in a cold moist place 8. When you put water into a seething-Balneum wherein there are glasses let it be hot or else thou wilt endanger the breaking of the glasses 9. When thou takest an earthen or glass vessel from the fire expose it not to the cold air too suddenly for fear it should break 10. If thou wouldst have a Balneum as hot as ashes put sand or sawdust into it that the heat of the water may be therewith kept in and made more intense 11. If you would make a heat with horse-dung the manner is this viz. make a hole in the ground then lay one course of horse dung a foot thick then a course of
unslaked lime half a foot thick then another of dung as before then set in your vessel and lay round it lime and horse dung mixt together press it down very hard you must sprinkle it every other day with water and when it ceaseth to be hot then take it out and put in more 12. Note that alwayes sand or ashes must be well sisted for otherwise a coal or stone therein may break your glass 13. The time for putrefaction of things is various for if the thing to be putrefied be vegetables and green less time is required if dry a longer if Minerals the longest of all Thus much note that tâ—â—â—gs are sooner putrefied in cloudy weather then in fair 14. If thou wouldst keep vegetables fresh and green all the year gather them in a dry day and put them into an earthen vessel which you must stop close and set in a cold place and they will as saith Glauberus keep fresh a whole year 15. Do not expect to extract the essence of any vegetable unless by making use of the feces left after distillation for if you take those feces as for example of a nettle and make a decoction thereof and strain it and set it in the frost it wil be congealed in it will appear a thousand leaves of nettles with their prickles which when the decoction is again resolved by heat vanish away which shews that the essence of the vegetables lies in the salt thereof 16. In all your operations diligently observe the processes which you read and vary not a tittle from them for sometimes a smal mistake or neglect spoils the whole operation and frustrates your expectation 17. Try not at first experiments of great cost or great difficulty for it will be a great discouragement to thee and thou wilt be very apt to mistake 18. If any would enter upon the practise of Chymistrie let him apply himself to some expert Artist for to be instructed in the manual operation of things for by this means he wil learn more in two months then he can by his practise and study in 7 years as also avoid much pains and cost and redeem much time which else of necessity he will lose 19. Enter not upon any operation unless it be consistent with the possibility of nature which therefore thou must endeavour as much as possibly may be to understand well 20. Do not interpret all things thou readest according to the literall sense for Philosophers when they wrote any thing too excellent for the vulgar to know expressed it enigmatically that the sons of Art only might understand it 21. In all thy operations propose a good end to thy self as not to use any excellent experiment that thou shalt discover to any ill end but for the publick good 22. It wil be necessary that thou knowest all such instruments that thou shalt use about thy Furnace and Glasses whereof some are already expressed and some more are shewn in the following page A B C D E A Signifies an iron rod with two iron rings at the ends thereof which must be heated red hot and applyed to that part of the glass which thou wouldst break off When thou hast held it there so long till the glass be very hot then take it off and drop some cold water where thou wouldst have it break off and it will presently crack in sunder These rings are for such glasses as will goe into them Thou must have divers of this sort even of all sizes B An iron hook which must be heated hot and applyed to any great glass that will not goe into a ring this hook bath a wooden handle C A pair of tongs which are for divers uses D A crooked iron to rake betwixt the grates to clear them E An iron rake to rake the ashes out of the ash-hole A thread dipt in melted brimstone and tyed about a glass and then fired may serve in stead of the iron rings and the hook Common distilled simple waters are made thus TAke what herbs or flowers you please put them into a common cold Still and let them distill gently This is the form of a common cold Still But note that this kinde of water is but the flegm of the vegetable which you distil and hath very little vertue or odour in it only roses and mints and two or three more have an odour but all besides have as little vertue as common distilled water I do not deny but that it may be so ordered that these kinds of waters may partake both of the smell and strength of their vegetables in a good measure and it is thus To make waters in a cold Still that shall have the full smell and vertue of the vegetable TAke what herbs flowers or roots you please so that they be green bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand close covered for four or five days then distil them after the manner aforesaid Another way to make Water taste and smell strong of its vegetable WHen you have distilled any vegetable in a cold Still after the usuall manner so that you take heed you dry not the hearb too much which you may prevent by putting a brown paper in the bottom of the Still giving it a gentle fire and turning the cake before it be quite dryed take the cakes that remain in the bottome of the Still and the water that is distilled from thence having a good quantity thereof and put them into a hot Still and let them stand warm for the space of 24 hours then distil them Then if you would have the water strong put the said water into more fresh cakes casting away the other and doe as before This is the truest and best way to have the water of any vegetables Also thou shalt by this way purchase some oil which is to be separated and to be kept by it self To make water at any time of the year in a cold Still without green herbs so that the water shall smell strong of the hearb PUt fair water into the body of the cold Still then hang a bag full of that hearb that thou wouldst have the water of being first dryed or seed or root thereof first bruised then make a strong fire under the Still Note that those vegetables of which the water is made after this and the former manner must be of a fragrant smell for such as have but little or no smell cannot yeeld a water of any considerable odour Another way to make a water taste and smell strong of its vegetables TAke of the dry hearb or seed or root bruised to a pound of each put 12 pints of spring water distill them in a hot Still or Alembick and the water that is distilled off put upon more of the fresh hearbs seeds or roots do this three or four times and thou shalt have a water full of the vertue of the vegetable being almost as strong as a spirit To make the water of
the flowers of Jasmin Honey-suckles or Woodbine Violets Lillies c. retain the smell of their flowers The reason why these flowers in the common way of distillation yeeld a water of no fragrancie at all although they themselves are very odoriforous are either because if a stronger fire be made in the distilling of them the grosser and more earthy spirit cometh out with the finer and troubleth it as it is in case the flowers be crushed or bruised where the odour upâ—â— the same account is lost or because the odoriferous spirit thereof being thin and very subtle riseth with a gentle heat but for lack of body vapours away The aâ—â—therefore that is here required is to prevent the mixtion of the grosser spirit with the finer and to give such a body to the finer that shall not embase it and it is thus Take of either of the aforesaid flowers gathered fresh and at noon in a fair day let them not at all be bruised Infuse a handfull of them in two quarts of White-wine which must be very good or else you labour in vain for the space of half an hour then take them forth and infuse in the same wine the same quantity of fresh flowers this do eight or ten times but still remember that they be not infused above half an hour for according to the rule of infusion a short stay of the body that hath a fine spirit in the liquor receiveth the spirit but a longer stay confoundeth it because it draweth forth the earthy part withall which destroyeth the finer then distill this liquor all the flowers being first taken out in a glass gourd in a very gentle Balneo or over a vapour of hot water the joints of the glass being very well closed and thou shalt have a water of a most fragrant odour By this means the spirit of the wine which serves to body the fine odoriferous spirit of the flowers ariseth as soon as the fine spirit it self without any earthiness mixed with it Note that in defect of Wine Aqua vitae will serve also strong beer but not altogether so well because there is more gross earthiness in it then in wine The water of either of these flowers is a most fragrant perfume and may be used as a very delicate sweet water and is no small secret A Furnace with his vessels to distil liquors with the steam of boyling water A Shews the head of the Alembick B The body thereof placed in a brasse vessel made for that purpose C A brasse vessel perforated in many places to receive the vapor of the water This vessel shal contain the Alembick compassed about with sawdust not only that it may the better and longer retain the heat of the vapour but also lest it should be broken by the hard touch of the brazen vessel D Shews the brasse vessel containing the water as it is placed in the Furnace E The Furnace containing the vessel F A Funnel by which you may now and then pour in water in stead of that which is vanisht and dissipated by the heat of the fire G The Receiver The delineation of a Baln Mâ—r. which may also serve to distill with ashes A Shews the Furnace with the hole to take forth the ashes B Shews another furnace as it were set in the other now it is of brass runs through the midst of the kettle made also of brass that so the contained water or ashes may be the more easily â—eated C The kettle wherein the water ashes or sand are contained D The Alembick set in the water ashes or sand with the mouths of the receivers E The bottome of the second brass Furnace whose top is marked with B which contains the fire A water out of Berries is made thus TAke of what Berries you please being full ripe put them into a gourd glass strewing upon them a good quantity of powdered sugar cover them close let them stand three weeks or a month then distill them in Balneo After this manner Strawberries Raspberries Elderberries and black Cherries may be distilled But note that such as have stones must first be bruised together with their stones A sweating water made of Elderberries TAke of Elder berries as many as you please press out the juice thereof to every gallon thereof put a pint of White-wine vinegar of the lees of Whitewine a pint let them stand in a wooden vessell which thou must then set in some warm place near the fire side for the space of a week then distill them in a hot Still or Alembick The Furnace for a Balneum Mariae with the Alembicks and their reâ—eivers A Shews the brass Kettle full of water B The cover of the Kettle perforated in two places to give passage forth to the Vessels C A Pipe or Chimney added to the Kettle wherein the fire is contained to heat the water D The Alembick consisting of its body and head E the Receiver whereinto the distilled liquor runs The effigies of another Baln Mar. not so easie to be removed as the former A Shews the vessell or Copper that contains the water B The Alembick set in water But lest the bottom of the Alembick being half ful should float up and down in the water and so strike against the sides of the Kettle I have thought good to shew you the way and means to prevent that danger A Shews the vessel or glass Alembick B A plate of lead whereon it stands C Strings that bind the Alembick to the plate D Rings through which thestrings are put to fasten the Alembick In defect of a Furnace for a Balneum you may make use of a pot set upon a trevet after this manner An ounce or two of this water of Elder berries is a very excellent sudorifick and is very good in all diseases that require sweat as also in hydropicall diseases Water out of rotten apples is made thus TAke as many rotten apples as you please bruise them and distill them either in a common cold Still or gourd glasses in Balneo This water is of greater use in feavers and hot distempers then the common distilled waters of any cold vegetables It is very good in any hot distemper of the reines and sharpness of Urine It is very good in the inflammations of the eyes How to make Aqua vitae and spirit of Wine out of Wine TAke of what wine you please put it into a copper Still two parts of three being empty distill it with a worm untill no more spirit come off then this spirit will serve for the making of any spirits out of vegetables but if thou wouldst have it stronger distill it again and half will remain behind as an insipid flegm and if thou wouldst have it yet stronger distill it again for every distillation wil leave behind one moity of flegm or thereabouts So shalt thou have a most pure and strong spirit of wine A hot Still A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of
After this manner may be made the spirit of Herbs Flowers the Roots of Vegetables the Seeds of Vegetables Berries Barks Rinds and Spices Note that the Hearbs and Flowers must be cut small the rest bruised If you would make it stronger then take all the foresaid spirit and as much more Sack or low Wines and put them upon the same quantity of fresh vegetables and distil them repeat this three or four times if thou pleasest Note also that the Vegetable must be dryed because else the spirit will not be so good as if otherwise The form of an Alembick A Signifies the vessel which must be of Copper in which the mâ—â—â— is contained and which o◠〈◊〉 be set over a naked fire B Signifies the belly that is fastned to the Neck that the Neck may the more commodiously be applyed to the large mouth of the vessel But it may be so ordered that the mouth of the upper vessell and lower vessel may be so fitted that they shall not need this Belly C The long Neck of the upper vessel whereby the spirit or water passing is somewhat cooled D The head E The vessel that compasseth the head into which cold water is centinually poured after the heating F The long receiver G The top or Cock letting out the water when it is hot The Spirit of any vegetable may suddenly at any time of the year be made thus Take of what Hearb Flower Seeds or Roots you please Fil the head of the Stil therewith then cover the mouth thereof with a course Canvas and set it on the Stil having first put into it sack or low Wines Then give it fire If at any time thou wouldst have the spirt be of the colour of its vegetable then put of the flowers thereof dryed a good quantity in the nose of the Still To make any vegetable yeeld its spirit quickly Take of what vegetables you please whether it be the seed flower root fruit or leaves thereof cut or bruise them small then put them into warm water put yest or balm to them and cover them warm and let them work three days as doth Beer then distill them and they will yeeld their spirit easily To reduce the whole 〈◊〉 into a liquor which may wel be called the Essence thereof Take the whole Hearb with flowers and roots make it very clean then bruise it in a stone Morter put it into a large glass vessel so that two parts of three may be empty then cover it exceeding close and let it stand in putrefaction in a moderate heat the space of half a year and it will be all turned into a water To make an Essence of any Hearb which being put into a glass and held over a gentle fire the lively form and Idea of the Hearb wil appear in the Glass Take the foregoing water and distill it in a gourd glass the joints being well closed in ashes and there will come forth a Water and an Oil and in the upper part of the vessel wil hang a volatile salt The oil separate from the water and keep by it self with the water purifie the volatile salt by dissolving filtring and coagulating The salt being thus purified imbibe with the said oil untill it will imbibe no more digest them wel together for a month in a vessell hermetically sealed And by this means you shall have a most subtill essence which being held over a gentle heat will fly up into the glass and represent the perfect Idea of that vegetable whereof it is the essence The true Essence or rather Quintessence of any Hearb is made thus When thou hast made the water and oil of any vegetable first calcine i. e. burn to ashes the remainder of the Hearb with the ashes make a Lye by pouring its own water thereon when thou hast drawn out all the strength of the ashes then take 〈◊〉 the Lye being first filtred and vapour it away and at the bottome thou shalt find a black salt which thou must take and put into a Crucible and melt it in a strong fire covering the Crucible all the time it is melting after it is melted let it boil half an hour or more then take it out and beat it small and set it in a cellar on a Marble stone or in a broad glass and it wil all be resolved into a Liquor this Liquor filter and vapour away the humidity till it be very dry and as white as snow Then let this salt imbibe as much of the oil of the same vegetable as it can but no more lest thou labour in vain Then digest them together till the oil will not rise from the Salt but both become a fixed powder melting with an easie heat To extract the Quintessence of all Vegetables Take of what spices flowers seeds hearbs woods you please put them into rectified spirit of Wine let the spirit extract in digestion till no more feces fal to the bottome but all their essence is gone into the spirit of Wine upon which being thus impregnated pour a strong spirit of salt and digest it in Balneo till an oil swim above which separate with a Tunnell or draw off the spirit of Wine in Balneo and the oil will remain clear at the bottom but before the spirit of Wine is abstracted the oil is bloud red and a true Quintessence An excellent Essence of any Vegetable may be made thus Take of the distilled oil of any vegetable with it imbibe the best Manna being very well depurated untill it will imbibe no more then digest them a month and thou shalt have the true balsome and excellent Essence of any vegetable This hath the vertues of the vegetable whereof it was made but in a more eminent manner The depuration of Manna for this use is a great secret Water or Spirit of Manna is made thus Take of the best Manna one part of Nitre two parts put them into an Ox bladder and tying it close put it into warm water to be dissolved Distill this water in an Alembick and there will come forth an insipid water sudorificall and laxative The Chimicall Oil of the Hearb or Flower of any Vegetable is made thus Take of the Hearb or Flower dryed one pound of Spring water twenty four pints distill them in a great Alembick with its cooler or Gopper Stil with a worm passing through a vessel of cold water Let the oil that is drawn with the water be separated with a Tunnell or separating glass and let the water that is separated be kept for a new Distillation Note that if this water be used two or three times in the drawing of the oil it will be an excellent water of that vegetable from which it is distilled and as good as most that shal be drawn any other way After the same manner are made oil of the dry rinds of Orenges Citrons Lemons But note that these Rinds must be fresh and the inward whiteness being separated be bruised The Oil
white and clear which first distilled off keep by it self continuing the Distillation as long as any oyl distils off then let both oyls be rectified apart in a good quantity of water The salt of Amber which adheres to the neck of the Retort within side being gathered let be purified by solution filtration and coagulation according to art and be kept for use After this manner may be made Oyls out of any gums which may be powdered Oyl of Myrrhe is made thus Take of Myrrhe bruised of Bay-salt of each six pound let them be dissolved in sixty pints of spring water and be distilled in an Alembick or Copper Still according to Art Oyl of Myrrhe per deliquium or by dissolution is made thus Take Hen-egs boiled hard and cut in the middle length-ways take out the yelks then fill up the hollow half way with powder of Myrrhe and join the parts together again binding them with a thread and so set them upon a grate betwixt two platters in a cold moist place so the liquor of the Myrrhe dissolved will distill into the lower platter Oil of Tartar per deliquium i. e. by dissolution Take of the best Tartar calcined white according to Art put it into a cotten bag hang it in the cellar or some moist place putting under a Receiver Oyls by Expression are made thus Take of what things you please such as will afford an oyl by expression bruise them then put them into a bag and press them strongly putting a vessel under to receive the oyl Note that they must stand in the Press some hours because the oyl drops by little and little Note also that if you warm them before you put them into the Press they will yeeld more oyl but then it will not keep good so long as otherwise After this manner are made oyls of Nutmegs Mace Almonds Linseed and such like A vomiting and purging Oil made by expression Take of the Berries of Ebulus or Dwarfe Elder as many as you please let them be dryed but not over-much then bruise them and in bruising them moisten them with the best spirit of Wine untill they begin to be oily then warm them by the fire and press forth the oil and set it in the sun to be purified Ten drops of this oil taken inwardly worketh upward and downward and is very good against the dropsie and all waterish diseases The belly being therewith anointed is made thereby soluble Any part that is much pained with the gout or any such grief is presently eased by being anointed with this oil Oil of Jasmine is made thus Take of flowers of Jasmine as many as you please put them into as much sweet mature oil as you please put them into a glass close stopt and set them into the Sun to be infused for the space of twenty dayes then take them out and strain the oil from the flowers and if thou wouldst have the oil yet stronger put in new flowers and do as before This is a pleasant perfume and being mixt with oils and ointments gives them a gratefull smell It is also used in the perfuming of Leather After this manner may be made oil of any flowers but because I shall keep my self to the Art of Distillation only I shal not so far digress as to speak of these kinds of oils only I thought good to set down the oil of Jasmine because by reason of its fragrancy it hath some analogie with Chymicall oils that are made by Distillation To make any Oil or Water per descensum Take an earthen gourd fill it full with wood or hearbs or what you please being cut small then invert it i e. turn it upside down and set it in the furnace lute it well thereunto then set another gourd of earth under it with a wider mouth that the uppermost may goe into it before you put the one into the other you must have a little vessell or instrument of Tin with brims round about on the top by which it must hang into the lower gourd the body thereof being 2 or 3 inches deep and full of holes that the oyl or water may drop through and not the vegetable it self Into this Instrument being first set into the lower gourd put the mouth of the upper gourd then make thy fire on the top and keep it burning as long as any liquor will drop Ths Figure of this furnace is thus A Signifies the gourd containing the matter to be distilled B The Furnace containing the Coals so that they surround the upper gourd C The lower gourd or recipient set upon straw-rings D The vessell of Tin with holes and brims which must be set in the Recipient How to make an Oyl and Water out of Soot This may be distilled per descensum or by retort as thus viz. Take of the best Soot which shines like Jet fill with it a glass Retort coated or earthen Retort to the neck distil it with a strong fire by degrees into a large Receiver and there will come forth a yellowish spirit with a black oyl which thou mayest separate and digest How to rectifie Spirits You must set them in the Sun in glasses well stopped and half filled being set in sand to the third part of their eight that the water waxing hot by the heat of the Sun may separate it self from the flegm mixed therewith which will be performed in in twelve or fifteen days There is another better way to doe this which is to distill them again in Balneo with a gentle fire or if you wil put them into a retort furnished with its receiver and set them upon crystal or iron bowls or in an iron mortar directly opposite to the beams of the Sun as you may learn by these ensuing signs Retort with its Receiver standing upon Crystal bowls just opposite to the Sun beams Another Retort with its Receiver standing in a Marble or Iron mortar directly opposite to the Sun A Shews the Retort B The Receiver C The Crystal-Bowls A Shews the Retort B The Marble or Iron Mortar C The Receiver How to rectifie all stinking thick black Oils that are made by a Retort and to take away their stink Take oyl of Amber or any such stinking oil put it into a glass Retort the fourth part only being full pour on it drop by drop the spirit of Salt or any other acid spirit and they will boil together and when so much of the spirit is poured on that it boileth no more then cease and distill it First cometh over a stinking water then a clear white well smelling oyl and after that a yellow oyl which is indifferent good but the spirit of Salt hath lost its sharpness the volatile salt of the oyl remaineth coagulated with the spirit of Salt and is black and tasteth like salt Armoniack and hath no smell being sublimed from it Now the reason of all this is because the volatile salt of the oyl which is the caâ—se of the
stink thereof is fixed by the acid spirit of the Salt for acid Spirits and volatile Salts are contrary the one to the other and spirit of Urine or any volatile Salt will precipitate any metall as well as salt of Tartar These oyls will remain clear and have far more vertue then the ordinary sort of oyls have As for common ordinary distilled oyls they need not if they be well separated from the water with which they were distilled any rectifying at all and if you goe about to rectifie them you will lose good part of them and make that which remains not at all the better But if there be any better then another for rectifying of them it is by digestion by which means there will be a separation of what is flegmatick which you may separate afterwards and by this means you shall lose none of the oyls Of Compound Waters and Spirits BOOK II. A Dissolving Menstruum TAke Cyprus Turpentine and the best spirit of wine of each two pound distill them in a glass gourd either in Balneo or Ashes Separate the oil from the spirit with a tunnel or separating glass distill the spirit agaim and so often untill it favour no more of the oyl of Turpentine and then it is sufficiently prepared This Menstruum dissolves any hard stones presently and extracts the tincture of Corall A Glass Gourd with its head Another dissolving Menstruum or acetum Philosophicum Take Honey Salt melted of each a pound of the strongest spirit of Vineger two pound digest them for the space of a fortnight or more then distill them in ashes Cohobate the Liquor upon the feces three or four times then rectifie the spirit Note that they must be done in a large glass Gourd This is of the same vertue as the former if not more powerfull Another dissolving Menstruum Take of the best rectified Spirit of Wine with which imbibe the strongest unslaked lime until they be made into a paste then put them into a glass gourd and distill off the spirit in ashes This spirit pour on more fresh Lime and doe as before do this three or four times and thou shalt have a very subtile spirit able to dissolve most things and to extract the vertue out of them Paracelsus his Elixir Subtilitatis Take oil Olive Honey rectified spirit of Wine of each a pint distill them all together in ashes then separate all the flegm from the oyls which will be distinguished by many colours put all these colours into a Pelican and adde to them the third part of the Essence of Balm and Sallendine digest them for the space of a month Then keep it for use This Liquor is so subtile that it penetrateth every thing Vsque-bath or Irish Aqua vitae is made thus Take a Gallon of smal Aqua vitae put it into a glass vessel put thereto a quart of Canary sack two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned but not washed two ounces of Dates stoned and the white skins thereof pulled out two ounces of Cinnamon grossely bruised four good Nutmegs bruised an ounce of the best English Licorish sliced and bruised stop the vessels very close and let them infuse in a cold place six or eight days then let the Liquor run through a bag called Manica Hippoeratis made of white cotton This Liquor is commonly used in surfets being a good Stomach water Aqua Celestis is made thus Take of Cinamon Cloves Nutmegs Ginger Zedoary Galingall Long-pepper Citron-pill Spicknard Lignum-aloes Cububs Cardamums Calamus aromaticus Germander Ground-pine Mace White Frankincense Tormentill Hermodactyls the pith of Dwarf Elder Juniper Berries Bay Berries the seeds and flowers of Motherwort the seeds of Smallage Fennell Annise the leaves of Sorrell Sage Felwort Rosemary Marjoram Mints Penny-royall Stechados the flowers of Elder Roses red white of the leaves of Scabious Rue the lesser Moonwort Egrimonie Centory Fumitary Pimpernell Sowthistle Eye-bright Maiden-hair Endive Red Saunders Aloes of each two ounces Pure Amber the best Rhubarb of each two Drams dryed Figs Raisins of the Sun Dates stoned Sweet-Almonds Grains of the Pine of each an ounce Of the best Aqua vitae to the quantity of them all of the best hard Sugar a pound of white Honey half a pound then adde the root of Gentian flowers of Rosemary Pepper-wort the root of Briony Sowbread Wormwood of each half an ounce Now before these are distilled quench gold being made red hot oftentimes in the foresaid water put therein oriental Pearls beaten small an ounce and then distil it after 24 hours infusion This is a very Cordiall water good against faintings and infection Aqua imperialis is made thus Take of the rind of Citrons dryed Take of the rind of Oranges dryed Nutmeg Cloves Cinnamon of each two ounces the roots of Flower-de-luce Cyprus Calamus aromaticus Zedoary Galingall Ginger of each half a pound of the tops of Lavender Rosemary of each two handfull the leaves of the Bay-tree Marjoram Balm Mints Sage Thyme flower of Roses white Damask of each half a handfull Rose-water four pints the best White-wine a gallon Bruise what must be bruised then infuse them all 24 hours after which distill them This is of the same vertue as the former Aqua Mirabilis is made thus Take of Cloves Galingall Cubebs Mace Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram the juice of Salendine half a pint Spirit of Wine a pint White-wine three pints Infuse all these 24 hours and then distill off two pints by an Alembick This water is very good against wind in the stomach and head Dr. Stephens water is made thus Take a Gallon of Gascoign Wine Ginger Galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs Grains Anniseeds Fennell seeds Carroway seeds of each a dram Sage Red Mints Red Roses Thyme Pellitory Rosemary Wild Thyme Camomil Lavender of each a handfull Beat the spices small and bruife the Hearbs letting them macerate twelve hours stirring them now and then distill them by an Alembick or copper Still with its refrigeratory keep the first pint by it self and the second by it self Note that the first pint will be the hotter but the second the stronger of the ingredients This water is well known to comfort all the principal parts A famous Surfet Water Take of red Poppie cakes after the water hath been distilled from them in a cold Stil not over dryed two pound pour upon them of the water of red Poppie a gallon and 〈◊〉 Canary wine three pints adde to them of Coriander seeds bruised four ounces of Dill seed bruised two ounces of cloves bruised half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced an ounce of Rosemary a handful three Orenges cut in the middle distill them in a hot Still to the water put the juice of six Orenges and hang in it half an ounce of Nutmegs sliced and as much Cinamon bruised two drams of cloves a handfull of Rosemary cut small sweet Fennell seeds bruised an ounce of Raisins in the Sun stoned half a pound being all put into
a bag which may be hanged in the Water the vessell being close stopt the space of a month and then be taken out and cast away the Liquor thereof being first pressed out into the foresaid Water This Water is of wonderfull vertue in Surfets and Pleurisies composeth the Spirits causeth rest helpeth digestion if two or three or four ounces thereof be drunk and the patient compose himself to rest A Pectorall Water Distill green hysop in a cold Still till you have a gallon and half of the Water to this put four handfull of dryed Hysop a handfull of Rue as much of Rosemary and Hore-hound Elecampanie-root bruised and of Horse-radish root bruised of each four ounces of Tobacco in the leaf three ounces Anniseed bruised two ounces twoâ—quarts of Canary wine let them all stand in digestion two days then distill them and in the water that is distilled put half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned of Licorish two ounces sweet Fennel seeds bruised two ounces and a half Ginger sliced an ounce and a half and let them be infused in Frigido the space of ten days then take them out This water sweetned with Sugar-candie and drunk to the quantity of three or four ounces twice in a day is very good for those that are ptificall it strengtheneth the Lungs attenuates thick flegm opens obstructions and is very good to comfort the stomach A very excellent water against the worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts horne two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them being put into a glass vessell be digested the space of three dayes then distill them cohobate this water three times This water is very excellent against the worms it may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the patient A Water against the Convulsions Take of Ros vitrioli which is that water that is distilled from Vitriall in the calcining thereof two quarts in this put of Rue a handfull of Juniper berries bruised an ounce of Bay berries bruised half an ounce Piony berries bruised six drams Camphire two drams Rhubarb sliced an ounce digest these four days in a temperate Balneo then distill them in a glass vessel in ashes and there will come over a water of no small vertue It cures convulsions in children especially it helps also the Vertigo the Hystericall passion and Epilepsie it is very excellent against all offensive vapours and wind that annoys the head and stomach It may be taken from two drams to two ounces An Hydropicall water Take of Wormwood Broom blossomes of each a like quantity bruise them and mix with them some leaven and let them stand in fermentation in a cold place the space of a week then distill them in a cold Still till they be very dry Take a gallon of this water and half a gallon of the Spirit of Urine pour them upon two pound of dryed Broom blossoms half a pound of Horse Radish roots dryed three ounces of the best Rhubarb sliced two ounces of sweet Fennell seed bruised and an ounce and an half of Nutmegs let them digest a week being put into a glass vessell in a temperate Balneo then press the Liquor hard from the feces put this Liquor in the said vessell again and to it put three ounces of sweet Fennel seeds bruised Licorish sliced two ounces digest them in a gentle heat the space of a week then pour it off from the feces and keep it close stopt This water being drank from the quantity of an ounce to four ounces every morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon doth seldome fail in curing the dropsie it strengtheneth also the Liver is very good against gravel in the back stone cures the Scurvy Gout and such diseases as proceed from the weakness and obstructions of the Liver A Water against the Colick Take of Aniseed three ounces Cummin seed three drams Cinnamon half an ounce Mace Cloves Nutmeg of each a dram Galingall three drams Calamus Aromaticus dryed half an ounce The dryed rind of Orenges two ounces Bay berries half an ounce Let all these being bruised be macerated in six pints of Mallago wine 48 hours then be distilled in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two at a time doth ease the gripings of the belly and stomach very much A Water against the Vertigo and Convulsions Take of black cherries bruised with their kernels a gallon of the flowers of Lavander three handful half an ounce of white Mustard seed bruised mix these together then put some ferment to them and let them stand close covered the space of a week then distill them in Balneo till all be dry This water being dranke to the quantity of an ounce or two or three doth much relieve the weaknesse of the head and helps the Vertigo thereof as also strengthen the sinews and expell windiness out of the head and stomach A compound Water of Burre root causing sweat Take the root of the great Burre fresh Swallow wort fresh The middle rind of the root of the Ash tree of each two pound cut them small and infuse them 24 hours in the best White wine and Rue vinegar of each five pints then distill them in Balneo til all be dry put to the water as much of the Spirit of Sulphur per Campanam as wil give it a pleasant acidity and to every pint of the water put a scruple and a half of Camphire cut small and tyed up in a bag which may continually hang in the water This was a famous water in Germany against the plague pestilence and Epidemical diseases it causeth sweat wonderfully if two or three ounces thereof be drank and the patient compose himself to sweat Another excellent Sudorifick and plague water Take of the best spirit of Wine a gallon Andromachus treacle six ounces Myrrhe two ounces The roots of Colts-foot three ounces Sperma Cett Terra Sigillata of each half an ounce The root of swallow wort an ounce Dittany Pimpernel Valerian root of each two drams Camphire a dram Mix all these together in a glass vessell and let them stand close stopt the space of eight dayes in the Sun Let the Patient drink of this a spoonful or two and compose himself to sweat Dr. Burges his plague water Take three pints of Muscadine and boil in it Sage and Rue of each a handfull till a pint be wasted then strain it and set it over the fire again put therto a dram of long Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each half an ounce being all bruised together then boil them a little and put thereto half an ounce of Andromachus treacle and three drams of Mithridate and a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica water This water which as saith
the Author must be kept as your life and above all earthly treasure must be taken to the quantity of a spoonful or two morning and evening if you be already infected and sweat thereupon if you be not infected a spoonful is sufficient half in the morning and half at night all the plague time under God saith the Author trust to this for there was never man woman or child that failed of their expectation in taking of it This is also of the same efficacy not only against the plague but pox measles surfets c. Crollius his Treacle water Camphorated Take of Andromachus his Treacle five ounces The best Myrrhe two ounces and half The best Saffron half an ounce Camphire two drams Mix them together then pour upon them ten ounces of the best spirit of wine and let them stand 24 hours in a warm place then distill them in Balneo with a graduall fire cohobate the spirit three times This spirit causeth sweat wonderfully and resists all manner of infection It may be taken from a dram to an ounce in some appropriate Liquor A distilled Treakle Vinegar Take of the roots of Bistort Gentian Angelica Tormentill of each ten drams Pimpernell Bay berries Juniper berries of each an ounce Nutmeg five drams The shavings of Sassafras two ounces Zedoary half a dram White Sanders three drams The leaves of Rue Wormwood Scordium of each half a handfull The flowers of Wall-flower Buglosse of each a handful and half Andromachus Treacle Mithridate of each six drams Infuse them all in three pints of the best White wine vinegar the space of eight dayes in Frigido in glass vessels then distill them in Balneo This Spirit is very good to prevent them that are free from infection and those that are already infected from the danger thereof if two or three spoonful thereof be taken once in a day with sweating after for those that are infected but without sweating for others An excellent water against the Stone in the Kidneys Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper berries bruised three pound Venice turpentine that is very pure 2 pound and a half Put these into twelve pints of spring water in a glass vessell well closed and there let them putrifie in horse dung for the space of three months then distill them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oil being taken every morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said water dissolves the gravell and stone in the kidneys most wonderfully Another water for the same use Take the juice of Radish Lemmons of each a pound and half Waters of Betony Tansey Saxifrage and Vervin of each a pint Hydromell and Malmsey of each two pound In these Liquors mixed together infuse for the space of four or five days in a gentle Balneo Juniper berries ripe and newly gathered being bruised three ounces the seed of Gromel Bur-dock Radish Saxifrage Nettles Onions Anise and Fennell of each an ounce and half the four cold seeds the seed of great Mallows of each six drams the Calx of Eg-shels Cinnamon of each three drams of Camphire two drams let all be well strained and distilled in ashes Two ounces of this water taken every morning doth wonderfully cleanse the Kidneys provoke Urine and expell the Stone especially if you calcine the feces and extract the Salt thereof with the said Water To make an excellent Wound water Take Plantain Rib-wort Bone-wort wild Angelica Red-mints Betony Egrimony Sanacle Blew-bottles White-bottles Scabius Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Dasie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handfull Boil all these in a pottle of White wine and as much Spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the hearbs and put to it half a pound of hony and let it boil a little after then put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these hearbs must be gathered in May only but you may keep them dry and make your water at any time This water is very famous in many Counties and it hath done such cures in curing outward and inward Wounds Imposthumes and Ulcers that you would scarce beleeve it if I should recite them to you also it is very good to heal a sore mouth The Patient must take three or four spoonfuls thereof morning and evening and in a short time he shall finde ease and indeed a cure unless he be so farre declined as nothing almost can recover him If the wound be outward it must be washed therewith and linnen cloths wet in the same be applyed thereto Dr. Matthias his Palsie water is made thus Take of Lavender flowers a gallon pour upon them of the best spirit of wine three gallons the vessell being close stopped let them be macerated together in the Sun for the space of six days then distill them in an Alembick with its refrigeratory then take the flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony of each a handfull Borage Bugloss Lillie of the valley Cowslips of each two handfuls Let all the flowers be fresh and seasonably gathered and macerated in a gallon of the best spirits of Wine and mixed with the aforesaid spirit of Lavender adding then the leaves of Balm Motherwort Orange tree newly gathered the flowers of Stechados Oranges Bay berries of each an ounce After a convenient digestion let them be distilled again then adde the outward rinds of Citrons six drams the seed of Piony husked six drams Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamums Cububs of yellow Sanders of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes one dram the best Jujubs the kernels taken out half a pound Let them be digested for the space of six week then strain and filtre the Liquor to which adde of prepared Pearl two drams prepared Emrald a scruple Amber Gryse Musk Saffron Red Roses Sanders of each an ounce Yellow Sanders Rinds of Citrons dryed of each a dram Let all these species be tyed in a silken bag and hanged in the foresaid spirit A Scorbuticall water or a compound water of Horse radish is made thus Take the leaves of both sorts of Scurvie-grass being made very clean of each six pound let these be bruised and the juice pressed forth to which adde the Juice of Brook-lime Water-cresses of each half a pound of the best White wine eight pints twelve whole Lemons cut of the fresh roots of Briony four pound Horse Radish two pound of the bark of Winteran half a pound of Nutmegs four ounces Let them be macerated three days and distilled Three or four spoonfuls of this water taken twice in a day cures the Scurvy presently Spirit of Castor is made thus Take of fresh Castoreum two ounces flowers of Lavender fresh half an ounce Sage Rosemary of each two drams Cinnamon three drams Mace Cloves of each a dram the best
rectified Spirit of Wine three pints Let them be digested in a Glass two parts of three being empty stopt close with a bladder and Cork two dayes in warm ashes then distill the spirit in Balneo and keep it in a glass close stopt If you would make it stronger take a pint of this spirit and an ounce of the powder of Castoreum put them into a glasse and digest them into a cold place for the space of ten dayes and then strain out the Spirit This spirit is very good against fits of the Mother passions of the heart which arise from vapours c. Bezoard water is made thus Take of the leaves of the greater Sallandine together with the roots thereof three handfuls and a half Rue two handfuls Scordium four handfull Dittany of Crete Carduus of each a handfull and half Root of Zedoary Angelica of each three drams The outward rind of Citrons Lemmons of each six drams The flower of Wall-gilly-flower an ounce and half Red Roses the lesser Centory of each two drams Cinnamon Cloves of each three drams Andromachus his Treacle three ounces Mithridate an ounce and half Camphire two scruples Trochisces of Vipers two ounces Mace two drams Lignum aloes half an ounce Yellow Sanders a dram and half The seeds of Carduus an ounce Citron six drams Cut those things that are to be cut and let them be macerated three days in the best Spirit of Wine and Muscadine of each three pints and half vinegar of Wall gilly-flowers and the juice of Lemmons of each a pint let them be distilled in a glazed vessell in Balneo After half the Liquor is distilled off let that which remains in the vessell be strained through a linnen cloth and vapoured away to the thickness of honey which may be called A Bezoard Extract This water is a great Cordial and good against any infection To make a specificall Sudorifick Take of Ginger a pound long Pepper and black Pepper of each half an ounce of Cardamums three drams of Grains an ounce powder them and put them into a glass with half an ounce of the best Camphire distilled vinegar two pound digest them a month then separate the vinegar by expression which must putrefie a month and then be circulated for the space of a week then filter it and thou hast as powerfull a Sudorifick as ever was or can be made The dose is from a dram to half an ounce and to be drank in a draught of posset-drink Treacle-water is made thus Take of the juice of the green shales of Walnuts four pound the juice of Rue three pints Carduus Marygold Balm of each two pints the root of Butter-burre fresh a pound and half Burre Angelica Master-wort fresh of each half a pound the leaves of Scordium four handfull old Andromachus treacle Mithridate of each eight ounces the best Canary twelve pints the sharpest Vinegar six pints the juice of Lemmons two pints Digest them two days in horse dung the vessell being close stopped then distill them in sand Aqua Mariae is made thus Take of Sugar candid one pound Canarie Wine six ounces Rose water four ounces Make of these a Syrup and boil it well to which adde of Aqua Imperialis two pints Amber gryse Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fifteen grains yellow Sanders infused in Aqua Imperialis two drams The Mother water commonly called Hystericall water is made thus Take of the juice of the root of Briony four pound the leaves of Rue Mugwort of each two pound Savin dryed three handfull Mother-wort Nippe Penny-royall of each two handfull Garden basill Cretensian Dittany of each a handfull and half the rind of yellow Oranges fresh four ounces Myrrhe two ounces Castoreum an ounce the best Canary wine twelve pints Let them be digested four dayes in a fit vessell then distill them in Balneo A vomiting water is made thus Take of the best Tobacco in leaves cut small four ounces Squils two ounces Nutmegs sliced half an ounce put these into three pints of spring water a pint of White wine vinegar distill them in a hot Still or Alembick If thou wouldst have it stronger thou mayest put this water on fresh ingredients and distill it again A little quantity of this water is a most safe and effectuall vomit and may be taken from the eldest to the youngest if so be you proportion the quantity to the strength of the Patient You may dulcifie it with sugar or syrup if you please A vomiting Water made by Platerus Take green Walnuts gathered about Midsummer Radish roots of each bruised two parts of distilled Wine vinegar four parts digest them five dayes then distill them in Balneo This being taken to the quantity of two spoonfull or three causeth easie Vomiting A distilled water that purgeth without any pain or griping Take of Scammony an ounce Hermodactyls two ounces the seeds of Broom of the lesser Spurge of Dwarf Elder of each half an ounce the juice of Dwarf Elder of wild Asses cucumber of black Hellebore the fresh flower of Elder of each an ounce and half Polypodium 6 ounces of Sene 3 ounces Red sugar 8 ounces common distilled Water 6 pints Let all these be bruised and infused in the water 24 hours then be distilled in Balneo This water may be given from 2 drams to 3 ounces and it purgeth all manner of humours opens all obstructions and is pleasant to be taken and they whose stomachs loath all other physick may take this without any offence After it is distilled there may be hanged a little bag of Spices in it as also it may be sweetned with sugar or any opening syrup A specificall Liquor against the tooth-ach Take of oil of Cloves well rectified half an ounce in it dissolve half a dram of Camphire adde to them of the Spirit of Turpentine four times rectified in which half a dram of Opium hath been infused half an ounce A drop or two of this Liquor put into a hollow tooth with some lint easeth the tooth-ach presently Of MINERALS BOOK III. Spirit of Salt is made thus TAke of the best Bay-salt as much as you please let it be dissolved in spring water and filtred mix with this brine in a Copper vessell of the powder of Bricks or Tiles twice or thrice as much as the Salt before its dissolution was in weight let the water vapour away over the fire continually stirring of it untill it be dry Then put this powder into a glass Retort well luted or an earthen Retort and put it into a Furnace a large Receiver joined to it according to art then give fire to it by degrees untill it will bear an open fire for the space of 12 hours Thou shalt have a very acid oil or spirit in the Receiver That Liquor being put into a little Retort in sand may be rectified by the vapouring away of the flegm then keep it for use in a glass very well stopt that no air goe in Spirit of Salt
is very good in Feavers putrid also in Hydropicall A Retort and its Receiver before they be set on work A Retort with its Receiver set on work Oil or Spirit of Salt may also be made after this manner Take one part of Salt and three parts of powder of Bricks or Tiles and mix them together and put them into a Retort either of glass or earth to which put fire as before After this manner you may make oil or spirit of Nitre Salt Gem Alum Note that these Salts must first be calcined which is done by exhaling their flegm To turn Salt-peter into a water by a meer digestion Take of Salt-peter powdered very small with it fill the fourth part of a Bolt-head close it well and let it stand in the heat of ashes or sand the space of six weeks and you shall see good part of it turned into water continue it in the said heat til it be all dissolved This is of incomparable use in Feavers and against Worms or any putrefaction in the body and indeed a most rare secret Spirit of Salt-Armoniack Dissolve Salt-Armoniack in distilled spirit of Urine over a moderate heat in this spirit let Bricks beaten into small pieces and made red hot be quenched till they have imbibed all the water then make Distillation in a Retort in sand or in a naked fire This spirit is of greater strength then that is of other Salts Oil or Spirit of Vitriall is made thus Take of Hungarian or the best English Vitrial as much as you please let it be melted in an earthen vessell glazed with a soft fire that all the moisture may exhale continually stirring of it untill it be brought into a yellow powder which must be put into a glasse Retort well luted or an earthen Retort that will endure the fire Fit a large Receiver to the Retort and close the joints wel together then give it fire by degrees till the second day then make the strongest heat you can til the Receiver which before was dark with fumes be clear again let the Liquor that is distilled off be put into a little Retort and the flegm be drawn off in sand so will the oil be rectified which is most strong and ponderous and must be kept by it self Many call that flegm which is drawn off in rectifying the spirit of Vitriall This oil or spirit is very excellent in putrid Feavers resisting putrefaction also it opens all obstructions and is very diureticall A red and heavie oil of Vitrial Take of calcined Vitriall one part flints grossely powdered two parts of these with spirit of wine make a Paste distill it in a Retort and there will come forth a red heavy oil This is to be used rather about metals then in the body only if the scurfe on the head be annointed therewith two or three times in a week it will fall off and the head be cured To dulcifie the Spirit of Vitriall and of Salt Take the spirit of Vitriall or of Salt the best spirit of wine of each half a pound distill them in a Retort together three or four times and they will be united inseparably and become sweet Some put 8 ounces of the best Sugar-candie to these Spirits before they be thus distilled Ten or twenty drops of this compound spirit being taken in any appropriated Liquor is very good in any putrid or Epidemicall disease Gilla Theophrasti or a most-delicate vomiting Liquor made of Vitriall Take of Crystals made out of Copper or Iron dissolve them in the acid flegm that first comes forth in the distilling of common Vitriall circulate them eight days This Liquor must be taken in wine and it causes vomiting instantly and is most excellent to cleanse and strengthen the stomach and to cure all such distempers that arise from thence as salt defluxions Feavers Worms Head-ach and Vertigoes the Hystericall passion and such like The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples Oil of Sulphur per Campanam Take a large iron vessel like a platter over it hang a glass bell that hath a nose like the head of a cold stil fil the lower vessel being narrower then the compass of the bell or head with brim-stone or sulphur inflame it so will the fume which ariseth from thence be condensed in the bell into a Liquor which will drop down through the nose into the Receiver If in stead of this broad vessell you take a large crucible and mâ—â—t in it Salt-peter and cast Sulphur upon it thus meked you shall make a great deal quicker dispatch This spirit is of the same nature and hath the same operations as oil of Vitriall The Oil of Sulphur is made after a more Philosophicall manner thus Take of crude Sulphur as much as you please put it into a melting vessell to be dissolved over the fire being dissolved pour it forth into seething hot water this done ten or more times remembring that the water must be always seething hot and thou shalt see that the Sulphur will be like butter then put it into a Retort pouring on it the best spirit of Wine then distilling it with a soft fire and there will come forth an oil of a golden colour of a good taste and smell which is the true Balsome of Sulphur The oil that swims on the spirit must be separated This oil for the cure of all distempers of the Lungs for all Feavers whether putrid or pestilentiall and the cure of wounds and Ulcers is scarce to be equalled The Essence of Sulphur Take of Sulphur vivum as much as you please dissolve it as well as you can in Aqua fortis made of Vitriall and Salt-peter then evaporate the Aqua fortis and then reverberate the matter till it become very red Extract the tincture with spirit of Wine then digest them till the essence be separated from the spirit like an oil and sink to the bottome This Essence also is of wonderfull vertue against all putrefaction both inward and outward a great preservative against the plague and is wonderfull balsamicall and cureth all sores both old and new even to admiration The oil of Arsenick is made thus Take of Crystalline Arsenick being first sublimed with Colcothar alone as much as you please mix it with an equal weight of the salt of Tartar and Salt-peter and let them be betwixt two little pots or crucibles whereof the upper hath a hole calcined untill no fume ascend The matter being thus calcined dissolve in warm water that you may draw a salt from thence the powder which fals to the bottome imbibe with the liquor of Tartar and dry it by the fire and this thou must doe three times then dissolve the matter in warm water that thou mayest draw out the Salt thereof and there will remain a most white powder and fixed which in a moist place will be dissolved into a liquid matter like oil or butter Aqua fortis or a strong Spirit that will dissolve silver and baser metals
is made thus Take of Vitriall calcined two parts of Nitre one part grind and mix them well together and put them into a glasse Retort coated or earthen Retort that will endure the fire and set them into the Furnace in an open fire and then having fitted a large Receiver distill it by degrees the space of 24 hours then rectifie the water or spirit in sand Aqua Regia or Stygia or a strong Spirit that will dissolve Gold is made thus Take of Nitre two parts Salt Armoniack one part the powder of flints three parts put them into a glass Retort coated or earthen Retort that will endure the fire distill them by degrees over a naked fire for the space of 12 hours take it out and rectifie it This water will dissolve gold Another Aqua regia is made thus Take of spirit of Nitre as much as you please put a dram of crude Nitre to every ounce of it and it will be as strong as any Aqua regia This water will dissolve gold To make a most strong and vehement Aqua fortis Take of the strongest Aqua fortis that you can get and well rectified a pound of Mercury sublimed four ounces salt Armoniack twenty ounces mix all these together Oil or Butter of Antimony is made thus Take of crude Antimony as much as you please of sublimed Mercury a like quality make them both into a very fine powder and mix them and put them into a glass Retort the neck whereof must be large Give fire by degrees in a close reverberatory or let the Distillation be made in sand There will distill into the Receiver a fatnesse part whereof sticking to the neck of the Retort will melt by a light fire being put to it That fatness may be rectified in a Retort and either be kept by it self as it is or set in a cellar or moist place and be resolved into a Liquor This oil might be washed in good store of water and then there will settle to the bottome a white powder which being oft washed in fair water till all the sharpness is gone is then called Mercurius vitae six or seven grains whereof is an excellent vomiting medicine A Furnace for a close Reverberation furnished with its Retort and Receiver A Shews the Furnace B The Retort C The Receiver D The Vessell filled with cold water How to make a water out of Antimony whereof a few drops shall purge or sweat and which hath neither smell or scarce any taste Take flowers of Antimony sublime them with salt Armoniack six or seven times then wash away the Salt with warm water and dry the powder which then lay thin on a Marble in a cellar till it be dissolved which will be in six weeks time This water if it be taken to the quantity of twenty drops will purge if in a lesser quantity it will sweat To make an oil or quintessence of Metals Dissolve what Metall or Minerall you please in a strong spirit of Salt except silver which must be dissolved in Aqua fortis draw off the flegm in Balneo pour on rectified spirit of Wine digest them so long till a red oil swim above which is the quintessence of metals and minerals and is a very great secret The true Spirit of Antimony is made thus Take of the subtile powder of the Regulus of Antimony as much as you please sublime it of it self til it wil sublime no more stil putting what is sublimed to that which remains at the bottom or with salt Armoniack six or seven times remembring that then you must dulcifie it with warm water by dissolving therewith the salt and dry the Precipitate afterwards Set this fixed powder in a cellar laying it very thin upon a marble stone and in about six weeks or two months it will all be dissolved into water which must be filtred Then evaporate part of this water and let it stand two or three dayes in the cellar to crystallize These Crystals purifie and dry Mix them with three times the quantity of the gross powder of Tiles and distill them in a Retort and there will come forth first a white spirit and then a red which you may rectifie in Balneo The true Oil or Essence of Antimony is made thus Take of the foresaid Crystals dissolve them in good rectified spirit of wine digest them two months in Balneo or horse dung then evaporate the spirit of wine and there will remain in the bottom the true oil or essence of Antimony Then take new Crystals of Antimony and let them imbibe either this oil or the foresaid spirit till they will imbibe no more then digest them two months in sand and they will become a flowing fixt salt and of excellent vertue The aforesaid spirit this oil and essence of Antimony may be equalized to Aurum potabile to all intents and purposes according to a Medicinall use especially the sixt Essence The dose is five or six grains A burning Spirit made out of Lead most fragrant and Balsamicall Take the Calx of Saturn or else Minium pour upon it so much spirit of Vinegar that may cover it four fingers breadth digest them in a warm place the space of twenty four hours often stirring them that the matter settle not too thick in the bottome then decant the Menstruum and pour on more digest it as before and this do so often untill all the saltness be extracted Filter and clarifie all the Menstruum being put together then evaporate it half away and set the other part in a cold place till it crystallize These Crystals dissolve again in fresh spirit of Vinegar filter and coagulate the Liquor again into Crystals and this doe so often untill they be sufficiently impregnated with the salt Armoniack of the Vinegar as with their proper ferment Digest them in a temperate Balneo that they may be resolved into a Liquor like oil Then distil this Liquor in sand in a Retort with a large Receiver annexed to it and well closed that no spirits evaporate together with the observation of the degrees of the fire then there wil distil forth a spirit of such a fragrant smel that the fragrancie of all flowers and compounded perfumes are not to be compared to it After Distillation when all things are cold take out and cast away the black feces which is of no use Then separate the yellow oil which swims on the top of the spirit and the bloud red oil which sinks to the bottome of it Separate the flegm from the spirit in Balneo Thou shalt by this means have a most fragrant spirit that even ravisheth the senses and so balsamical that it cures all old and new sores inward and outward and so cordiall that the dying are with admiration revived with it They that have this medicine need scarce use any other either for inward or outward griefs How to turn Quick-silver into a water without mixing any thing with it and to make thereof
even as Olive olive and not very corosive keep it from the air or else it turneth into water It is of wonderfull vertue for inward and outward griefs for it hath in it a pure golden Sulphur Common Sulphur mixed with this oil and melted in a strong fire swimmeth like water above and is transparent This oil distilled in a Retort with pure sand in a strong fire yeeldeth a spirit like fire scarce to be contained in any vessel and dissolveth all metals except silver and reduceth pure spirit of Wine into an oyl within a few days To make oyl of Talk Take of the best Talk reduced into very thin flakes make them red hot and then quench them in the strongest Lixivium that Sope-boylers use doe this fifteen times and it will become as white as snow then powder it very small and calcine it by fumigation i. e. by the fume of some very sharp spirit as of Aqua fortis or the like when it hath been thus calcined for the space of a fortnight it wil become somewhat mucilaginous then set it in any heat of putrefaction as it is for it hath imbibed enough of the sharp spirit to moisten and ferment it for the space of two months in a bolt head nipt up then evaporate the acid spirit and dulcifie it with distilled rain water After this extract what thou canst out of it with the best rectified spirit of Wine pour off the solution and evaporate the spirit of Wine and at the bottome will be a most beautiful oyl The oyl is the most glorious fucus or paint in the World To make oyl of Talk another way Take of the foresaid powder of Talk after it hath been putrefied and again dulcified as much as you please put four times as much of the best circulated oyl of Camphire to it digest them in Horse dung till all the powder be dissolved and the oyl become mucilaginous which will be within two months This is for the same use as the former There is required a great deal of pains and care and no small cost in the preparation of these oyls Oyl is made of Bole Armoniack terra sigillata and such kind of clay earths thus Take of either of those earths as much as you please break it into small pieces and put it into a Retort over a naked fire for the space of 12 hours and there will distill into the Receiver which must be large the flegm then white Spirits in a little quantity yet of a grateful taste and smel Oyl out of these kinds of earth is made better thus Take of either of these earths which you please as much as you will pour upon it distilled rain water set it in some warm place for a month or more and the oyliness will separate from its body of its own accord and swim upon the water Separate the water by a tunnel and distil the oyl with five parts of the spirit of Wine well rectified and there will come forth an oyl oyl of a golden colour swimming on the spirit which is a most excellent Balsame Spirit of unslaked Lime is made thus Take of unslaked Lime as much as thou pleasest reduce it into a subtle powder imbibe it with Spirit of Wine most highly rectified which must be pure from all its flegm or else you labour in vain as much as it can imbibe draw off the spirit of Wine with a gentle heat cohobate it 8 or 10 times so will the fiery vertue of the Lime be fortified Take of this levigated Lime 10 ounces pure salt of Tartar one ounce the feces of Tartar after the salt is extracted 11 ounces mix these well together put them into a glass Retort coated see that 2 parts of 3 be empty distill them into two Receivers the flegm into one the spirit into the other which must have a little of rectified spirit of Wine in it to receive the spirit If thou wilt separate the spirit of Wine then put fire to it and the spirit of Wine will burn away and the spirit of the Lime stay behinde which is a kind of a fixed spirit This is a very secret for the consuming the Stone in the bladder and the curing of the Gout Oyl made out of Tile-stones called the Oyl of Philosophers Take of Bricks or Tiles as many as you please break them into small pieces make them red fire hot then quench them in pure old Oyl Olive in which let them lye till they be cold then take them out and grind them very small let the powder be put in a glass Retort coated a fit Receiver being put thereto and distil off the oyl in a naked fire by degrees which being distilled off keep in a viall close stopt This oyl is wonderfull penetrating and is good against all cold distempers whatsoever The Liquor or Water of Corall is made thus Take Salt-Armoniack well purified by sublimation of red Coral finely powdered of each a like quantity sublime them so often till the Corall will no more rise up then take the Calx of Corall that remains in the bottome of the sublimatory and put it on a marble or glass in the cellar to be dissolved that which will not be dissolved sublime again and do as before till all be dissolved and so thou hast the Liquor of Corall Note that if thou wilt have the true tincture of Coral evaporate the humidity of the foresaid Liquor then extract the tincture out of the powder with spirit of Wine which spirit evaporate to the consistency of honey and thou hast a most rare medicine This medicine strengtheneth all the parts in the body and cures all distempers that arise from the weakness thereof To make a Water out of Lapis Armenus that shall have neither taste nor smell a few drops whereof shal purge Take of Lapis Armenus powdered small and calcined as much as you please sublime it with salt Armoniack until it will sublime no more but remain in the bottome of the sublimatory then take it out and lay it very thin upon a marble in a cellar and there let it lye two months and it will be almost all dissolved into a Liquor Or thus Take of Lapis Armenus powdered small and calcined as much as you please pour upon it of distilled Vinegar as much as wil cover it four fingers breadth then set it over a gentle heat stirring of it two or three times in an hour for the space of six hours or thereabouts then the spirit being tinged very blew with the powder filtre off from the feces then pour more spirit of vinegar on the feces and doe as before till the spirit be tinged no more then take all the blew spirit and vapour it away and at the bottome you shall have a salt which you must put into a calcining pot and calcine so long in the fire till no more vapour will arise and it become a dark red powder then put it upon a marble in the cellar for
the space of two months and it well be dissolved into a Liquor a few drops whereof put into a glass of beer will purge delicately How to make a Furnace that shall of it self without any vessels which should contain the matter being put into it sublime Minerals and distil all manner of Oils and Spirits out of Minerals Vegetables and Animals and that in a very great quantity in a very short time and with small cost THe Furnace is made as followeth It may be made of one piece by a Potter or of brick round or four-square greater or lesser as you please if the inside be one span broad in the middle it must be four high one for the Ash-hole another above the grate to the middle Coal-hole and two above the Pipe this pipe being made of earth or iron must be a span long betwixt the Furnace and the Receiver and a third part as wide as the Furnace within The Recipients must be made of glass or very good earth well luted together the greater the better The first Figure The second Figure A Signifies the Ash-hole which must be as wide as the Furnace and alwayes open that the fire may burn the stronger B The middle hole of the Furnace for the putting in of coals C The stopple made of stone D The upper hole of the Furnace with a false bottome wherein sand lyeth which is there laid that the cover may lye the closer and keep in the fumes the better E The Cover which must presently be clapt on assoon as the matter to be distilled is put in F The Pipe which goeth out of the Furnace and to which the Receiver is fitted G The first Recipient for flowers H The second I The third K A Stool whereon the first Recipient resteth in the midst whereof is a hole through which goeth the neck of the Recipient to which another glass is fitted L The Glass fitted to the Recipient for the uniting the spirits that drop down M Another Recipient united to the former glass and into which the united spirits do run N A Stoole through the middle whereof goeth a screw for the raising of that Glass which is set under the first Recipient higher or lower O P The Grate with two thick iron bars which lye fast upon which four or five thinner are layed which may be stirred when the Furnace is made clean Thus far the first of the figures is explained by which you may see how sublimation and distillation is made at one time viz. of those things which will yeeld both flowers and spirits the flowers sticking in the three upper Recipients and the spirits dropping down into the lower Now follows the explanation of the second figure which is the same with the former in respect of the Furnace it self but differing in respect of the Recipients which serve for the receiving of the spirits and oyls of such things as yeeld no flowers Therefore I shall begin with the explanation of the Receivers G The first crooked pipe as it is fitted to the pipe that comes out of the Furnace H The-Recipient with its cover in which is one hole for one crooked pipe to goe through as you may see in the first H and two holes for two pipes to goe through as you may see in the second H and in H H. Note that these pipes may either be fastned to the cover being all of one piece or they must be wel luted that no vapours may pass through Now you must conceive that in the lower Receivers the vapour that goeth out of the first pipe goeth first into the Receiver then out of that into the next pipe and so forward till it cometh into the last Receiver by which means it is much cooled for indeed such vapours that come out of the Furnace especially when some materials are distilled if there were not some such art to cool them would break all Recipients I A tub of water wherein the Recipient stands to cool the vapours and condense them K The first crooked pipe as it goeth into the Recipient L The second crooked pipe whereof one end goeth into one Receiver and another end into another M The last crooked pipe to which you must annex a Receiver Now the manner of distilling is thus Let the Furnace be full of coals wel kindled then cast on your matter and stop your Furnace close This Furnace needs no Retort or other vessels to set into it neither can you doe any hurt by too much or too little fire and you may finish your operation when you please and in one hour try divers experiments It saveth very much time and cost and in one hour will doe as much as can be done in another Furnace in 24. In one hour you may make a pound of spirit of Salt with four or five pound of coals and as much flower of Antimony in a like space of time and with as few coals If your materials be vegetables or horn or bones cut them small If hard Minerals let them be powdered very small if salts let them first be dissolved in water which water must be imbibed with red hot coals until all the liquor be imbibed then cast in those coals into the Furnace If you would by this means procure the spirit of hard Minerals as of Antimony c. you must take them as they come from the Mine before they have passed the fire By this Furnace you may make the spirits of such things which will not yeeld them in any other way Note that such oyls and spirits as are drawne by this Furnace must be rectified in spirit of Salt as I have above shewed Ros Vitrioli is made thus Take of the best Dansick Vitriall as much as you please uncalcined put it into a glass gourd and distill it in the sand and there will come over a water somewhat sharpish This Water or Ros is of greater use then the spirit or oyl thereof It helpeth all inward inflammations as of the Liver Kidneys Stomach helps the ebullition of bloud and all distempers that come from thence This is that flegm which most vapour away but it is because they know not the vertues thereof A sweet green oyl of Vitriall is made thus Take as many Copperas stones as you please beat them small and lay them in a cool cellar and in twenty or thirty days they will attract the air and look black and after fourteen days become whitish and sweetish then dissolve them in distilled rain water then filter and evaporate the water and they will shoot into green Crystals which you may dissolve in a Cellar per deliquium being first beaten small and layed on a marble stone This liquor is that famous medicine of Paracelsus for the falling sickness a few drops thereof being taken in any appropriated liquor Take heed that it come at no strong fire for then saith Paracelsus it loseth its greenness and as much as it loseth of that so much
also of its vertue A spirit may be drawn from hence by an ingenious Artist that will smell like Musk or Amber The Sulphur of Vitriall may with spirit of wine be extracted thus Take of the best Dansick Vitriall half a pound dry it by a gentle fire till it be whitish then pour on it of the best rectified spirit of Wine thirty ounces Note that there must come to it no other moisture then the spirit of Wine the glass also must be very dry else you labour in vain then digest it in horse dung the space of a month then decant from the feces the spirit of Wine without any troubling of it then in Balneo evaporate the spirit and at the bottome you will have a yellow liquor of a most wonderfull stipticity This liquor is a famous Anodynum suppressing all noxious vapours whatsoever and causing rest A few drops there may be taken in any specifical Liquor A Sudorificall Water to be used outwardly Take of sublimed Mercury very finely powdered an ounce and half of Euphorbium powdered a scruple spirit of Wine well rectified and Rosewater of each a pound digest them two or three hours in a gentle Balneo the neck of the vessell which must be very long being wel stopt then let them boll a quarter of an hour when the liquor is cold pour it from the feces and keep it in a glass If the back bone be bathed with this Water or the wrist of those that be weak it causeth sweat presently if it be done in the bed By which means diseases that require sweat may be cured Also any pained place by being bathed with this Water is in a little time eased Note that you must not bathe any place above three or four times with it for by being too often used it contracts the skin How to rectifie Oyls and Spirits of Minerals Put the Liquor that is distilled from Minerals into the Retort to which give fire by degrees and the spirit wil rise up into the upper Receiver and the heavy oyl wil go into the middle Receiver which is the biggest of all and into the little Receiver annexed to the end of the middle wil pass some of the spirit which though it passeth into the middle Receiver wil not stay there but goeth beyond it because it finds vent Of ANIMALS BOOK IV. Waters Spirits and Oils simple and compound out of Animals Oyl and Water out of Bloud is made tbus TAke of bloud as much as you please let it stand in putrefaction in a glass vessell close covered the space of forty days then distil it in ashes and there wil come forth a water and oyl extract the salt out of the feces with the said water calcine the salt in a crucible and then dissolve it in the said water and then distil off the water which will be a good rectifying of the water and dry the salt very well which then mix with the foresaid oyl being first rectified and digest them both together for the space of a month To make the Magistery of bloud Take of the purest bloud as much as you please put it into a Pelican that three parts of four may be empty and digest it a month in horse dung in which time it will swell and become as much more as it was when it was put in then distil off the flegm in Balneo and in the bottome will remain the magistery of bloud which must be distilled and cohobated nine times in a Retort in ashes and then it is perfected This Magistery is of excellent vertue which being taken inwardly and applyed outwardly cureth most diseases and easeth pain being very balsamicall Eâ—ixir of Mummie is made thus Take of Mummy viz. of mans flesh hardened cut small four ounces spirit of wine terebinthinated ten ounces put them into a glazed vessell three parts of four being empty which set in horse dung to digest for the space of a month then take it out and express it let the expression be circulated a month then let it run through Manica Hippocratis then evaporate the spirit till that which remains in the bottome be like an oyl which is the true Elixir of Mummy This Elixir is a wonderful preservative against all infections also very balsamicall The essence of mans brains Take the brains of a young man that hath dyed a violent death together with the membranes arteries veins nerves al the pith of the back bruise these in a stone mortar til they become a kind of pap then put as much of the spirit of wine as will cover it three or four fingers breadth then put it into a large glass that three parts of four be empty being hermetically closed then digest it half a year in horse dung then take it out and distill it in Balneo and cohobate the water til the greatest part of the brains be distilled off A scruple or two of this essence taken in some specificall water once in a day is a most infallible medicine against the falling sickness A famous spirit made out of Cranium humanum Take of Crannium humanum as much as you please break it into smal pieces which put into a glass Retort well coated with a large Receiver well luted then put a strong fire to it by degrees continuing of it till you see no more fumes comes forth and you shal have a yellowish spirit a red oyl and a volatile salt Take this salt and the yellow spirit and digest them by circulation two or three months in Balneo and thou shalt have a most excellent spirit This spirit is of affinity with if not the same as that famous spirit of Dr. Goddards in Holborn It helps the falling sickness gout dropsie infirm stomach and indeed strengthens all weak parts and openeth all obstructions and is a kinde of Panacea Another excellent spirit made out of Cranium Harts horn or Ivory Take of either of these if you take Cranium it need not be bruised at all only broke into little pieces if Harts horn or Ivory you must cut them in thin pieces lay it piece by piece upon a net spread upon any vessell being almost full of water cover this net with another vessel very close then make the water boyl and keep it boyling three dayes and three nights and in that time the bones or horns will be as soft as cheese then pound them and to every pound thereof put half a pound of Hungarian vitrial uncalcined and as much spirit of wine as wil make them into a thin paste This paste digest in a vessell hermetically seald the space of a month in Balneo then distil it in a Retort in sand till all be dry and you shall have a most excellent spirit This spirit is of wonderful use in the Epilepsie Convulsions all Feavers putrid or pestilential passions of the heart and is a very excellent Sudorifick This spirit may be taken from the quantity of half an ounce to an ounce in some
Rhene and Seyfrie of Collen Generall against the Turks did always drink of it when they went to fight to encrease magnanimity and courage which it did even to admiration This spirit doth also wonderfully irritate them that are slothfull to Venery It also provoketh Urine even to admiration It doth also wonderfully irritate the spirits that are dulled and deaded with any cold distemper This oyl doth the same effects and indeed more powerfully This oyl doth besides what is spoken of the spirit help deafness exceedingly two or three drops being dropped into the ear after it is wel syringed once in a day for a week together It helpeth also the Eyes that have any film growing on them being now and then dropped into them Another-Aqua Magnanimitatis is made thus Take of Ants or Pismires a handful of their Eggs two hundred of Millepedes i. e. Wood lice one hundred of Bees one hundred and fifty digest all these in two pints of spirit of wine being very well impregnated with the brightest Soot Digest them together the space of a month then pour of the clear Spirit and keep it safe This water or spirit is of the same vertue as the former Water of Dung is made thus Take of any dung as much as thou pleasest whilest it is fresh put it into a common cold Stil and with a soft fire distil it off it wil be best if the bottome of the Stil be set over a vapour if thou wouldst have it be stronger cohobate the said water over its feces several times for we see there is great vertue in dung it makes ground fertil and many sorts thereof are very medicinable A water of Doves dung is made thus Take of Doves dung dryed as much as you please to every pound put a pint of Rhenish wine in which let it steep all night in a gentle Balneo then distil it in a glass gourd in ashes Cohobate this Liquor three times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This water is very excellent against all obstructions of the kidneys bladder it helpeth the Jaundies presently two or three spoonful thereof being drank once every morning and evening A Water made of Horse dung Take of the dung of a horse that is fed in the stable as much as you please let it stand two days out of the Sun and out of the wet to every pound of this pour a pint of white wine let them stand in a warm Balneo a fortnight then distil them in a glass gourd in sand cohobate this three or four times if there be any volatile salt mix it with the water This Water is very excellent against the bastard pleurisie stitches wind obstruction of the reins bladder very good in a dropsie jaundies scurvy c. If three or four spoonfuls be taken every morning in the water of Juniper berries it also causeth sweat A Water smelling like Amber made by Paracelsus out of Cow dung Take of Cow dung and distil it in Balneo and the water thereof will have the smell of Amber gryse This water is very excellent in all inward inflammations An excellent Sudorifick made of the young buds of Harts horn Take of the young buds of Harts horn whilest they are ful of bloud and moist bruise them into a paste then mix as much Canary wine as will make a very thin paste distil them in ashes till they be very dry This is an excellent Sudorifick in all burning Feavers and Epidemical diseases if a spoonful be taken by it self or in any appropriated Liquor Oyl out of Bones and Horns is made thus Take of what bones you please reduce them to a gross powder put them into a Retort putting a strong fire by degrees thereunto and there will come forth an oyl and volatile salt both which thou mayest mix together and digest them into an essence the oyl being first rectified with spirit of wine The Water of Swallows against the Falling sicknesse Take of Swallows cut them into pieces without separating any thing from them six ounces of Castoreum cut small an ounce mix them together infuse them 12 hours in half a pinâ— of Canary wine then put them into a glass gourd and distill them in sand till all be dry then cohobate the Liquor three times This water being drank to the quantity of two spoonfull every morning cureth them that have the Falling sickness Oyl out of Egs is made thus Take of the yelks of egs boyled very hard rub them in pieces with your fingers then fry them in a pan over a gentle fire continually stirring them with a spoon til they become red and the oyl be resolved and flow from them then put them into a hair cloth and so presse forth the oyl This oyl cleanseth the skin from any filthinesse contracted by heat it cureth pustles chaps excoriations ring-worms but especially all burnings A Water of the whites of Eggs that will cure a wound without any visible scarre Take as many eggs as you please boyl them very hard then cut them in the middle and take out the yelks filling up the cavities with some of those whites being first bruised into a paste then put both sides of the egg together as before and tye them together with a thread and with a string hang them in the middle of a gourd glass that they touch not the sides stop this glass very close and set it in Balneo and you shall see those whites which were bruised drop down into a Liquor which you must gather up out of the bottome of the glass and keep You will have very little of this Liquor This Liquor applyed to any green wound with a feather cures it presently wheresoever it be without any visible scar It cures most wonderfully all wounds in the eyes A Water of Crabs is made thus Take Crabs or Craw-fish as many as you please break them to pieces then macerate them in water of Sengreen for the space of a day then distil them cohobate the water three times This Water is of singular vertue in all manner of inflammations inward and outward An Oylor Liquor is made out of Crabs eyes thus Take of Crabs eyes very finely powdered five parts oyl of Tartar Per Deliquium six parts This oyl of Tartar must be made of salt of Tartar after it hath flowed in the fire digest them in horse dung the space of a month then coagulate the Liquor and make an extraction with the best rectified spirit of Wine that can be made or else you lose your labour then evaporate the spirit of Wine and there remaines an oyl at the bottome This oyl is of wonderful vertue in all putrid Feavers and such like distempers also in all obstructions especially of the Kidneys Water of Spawn of Frogs is made thus Take of the Spawn of Frogs gathered in March as much as you please put a handful of Salt to every quart and put them into a common cold Still and
make an artificiall Claret wine Take six gallons of water two gallons of the best Cidar put thereunto eight pound of the best Mallago Raisins bruised in a Mortar let them stand close covered in a warm place the space of a fortnight every two days stirring them well together then presse out the Raisins and put the Liquor into the said vessell again to which adde a quart of the juice of Rasp-berries and a pint of the juice of Black cherries cover this Liquor with Bread spread thick with strong Mustard the Mustard side being downward and so let it work by the fire side three or four days then tun it up and let it stand a week then bottle it up And it will taste as quick as bottle-beer and indeed become a very pleasant drink and indeed farre better and wholsomer then our common Claret An artificiall Malmsey Take two gallons of English honey put it into eight gallons of the best Spring water set these in a vessell over a gentle fire when they have boyled gently an hour take them off and when they be cold put them into a smal barrell or run let hanging in the vessell a bag of spices and set it in the cellar and in half a year you may drink thereof To make an excellent aromaticall Hyppocras Take of Cinnamon two ounces Ginger an ounce Cloves and Nutmegs of each two drams of white Pepper half a dram of Cardamums two drams of Musk Mallow seed three ounces Let all these be bruised and put into a bag and hanged in six gallons of Wine Note that you must put a weight in the bag to make it fink Some boyl these spices in Wine which they then sweeten with sugar and then let run through a Hyppocras bag and afterwards bottle it up and use when they please A single Hypocras bag or Manica Hippocratis When you would have this or any other Liquor to be very clear you may use the triple Hypocras bag for what feces passeth the first will stay in the second and what in the second will stay in the last Note that these bags must be made of white Cotton A triple Hypocras bag is only one hanging above another after this manner To make an excellent Hypocras Wine in an instant Take of Cinnamon two ounces Nurmegs Ginger of each half an ounce Cloves two drams bruise these small then mix them with as as much Spirit of Wine as will make them into a paste let them stand close covered in a glass the space of six days in a cold place then presse ouâ— the Liquor and keep it in a glass A few drops of this Liquor put into any Wine giveth it a gallant relish and odour and maketh it as good as any Hypocras whatsoever and that in an instant Note that if the Wine be of it selfe harsh it will not be amisse to sweeten it with Sugar for thereby it is made far more gratefull This also being put into Beer will make it very pleasant and aromaticall Another way to make Hypocras or to make any Wine to tast of any vegetable in an instant Take what Wine you please and according as you would have it tast of this or that spice or any other vegetable of one or more together you may drop a few drops of the distilled oil of the said spices or vegetables into the Wine and brew them well together and you may make in an instant all sorts of Hypocras or other Wines as for example if you would have Wormwood Wine two or three drops of oil of Wormwood put into good Rhenish-wine being well brewed together will make a Wormword Wine exceeding any that you shall meet withall in the Rhenish-wine houses To make a good Rasberry-wine Take a gallon of Sack in which let two gallons of Raspberries stand steeping the space of twenty four houres then strain them and put to the Liquor three pound of Raisins of the sun stoned let them stand together foure or five days bring sometimes stirred together Then pour off the clearest and put it up in bottles and set it in a cold place If it be not sweet enough you may adde some Sugar to it Two other wayes to make it all the year at an instant Take of the juice of Raspberries put it into a bottle which you must stop close and set in a cellar and it will become clear and keep all the year and become very fragrant A few sponfulls of this put into a pint of Wine sweetned well with Sugar gives it an excellent and full tast of the Raspes If you put two or three ounces of the Syrup of Raspes to a pint of Wine it will doe as well but then you need use no other Sugar for that will sweeteen it sufficiently To make Mead or Metheglin that it shall tast stale and quick within a fortnight and be fit to drink To every three gallons of water put one gallon of the purest Honey put what hearbs and spices you please boyl it and skim it well now and then putting in some water When it is sufficiently boyled take it off and when it is almost cold put it into a wooden vessell and set it by the sire side cover it over with Bread spread thick with the strongest Mustard the Mustard side being downwards and so let it stand three dayes and it will worke only put a cloth over it Then tunne it up and after a week draw it forth into bottles and set it into a cellar and after a week more you may drink of it for it will taste as quick as bottle beer that is a fortnight old and indeed as stale as other Mead will in half a year To make a Spirit of Amber-gryse that a few drops thereof shall perfume a pint of Wine most richly Take of Amber-gryse 2. drams of Musk a dram cut them small and put them into a pint of the bâ—st rectified Spirit of Wine close up the glasse Hermetically and digest them in a very gentle heat till you perceive they are dissolved Then you may make use of it Two or three drops or more if you please of this Spirit put into a pint of Wine gives it a rich odour Or if you put 2. or 3. drops round the brimmes of the glasse it will do as well Half a spoonfull of it taken either of it self or mixed with some speciall Liquor is a most rich Cordiall An excellent sweet Water Take a quart of Orenge-flower water as much Rose-water adde thereto of Musk-mallow seeds grossely bruised four ounces of Bâ—njamin two ounces of Storax an ounce of Labdanum six drams of Lavender flowers two pugills of sweet Marjoram as much of Calamus Aromaticus a dram distill all these in a Glasse Still in Balneo the vessels being very well closed that no vapour breath forth Note that you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting a few drops of some distilled oils together into some rose-Rose-water and brewing them well together To
purifie and give an excellent smell and tast unto oil Olive that they that loath it may delight to eat it Take of a good sort of oil Olive though not of the best put the same into a vessell of earth or copper that hath a little hole in the bottome thereof which you may stop with wax or a cork to open at your pleasure In this vessell for every quart of oil adde four quarts of fair water and with a woodâ—n spatle or spoon beat them well together for a quarter of an houres space and when you have so done opâ—n the hole in the bottome and let out the water for the oil doth naturally fleet above as being the lighter body and assoon as the water is passâ—d away stop the hole and put in other cold water and begin a new agitation as before and worke in the like manner divers times as you did at the first till in the end the oil be well cleansed and clarified If the last time you work it with rose-Rose-water it will be so much the better then hang in the midst of the oil a course bag full of Nutmegs sliced and Cloves bruised and the rinds of Orenges and Lemons cut small and set the vessell in Balneo for two or three houâ—es and I suppose he that loaths oil will be easily by this meanes drawn to a liking of it Another way Set oil Olive in the sunne in summer-time untill there settle good store of foule and grosse Lees from the which by declination poure out the clear oil and keep it till the next winter and after the same hath been congealed with some frosty weather the oil will be most sweet and delectable to the tast After this manner you may clarifie all thick oils and all kinds of grease but then you must use warme water in stead of cold To purifie Butter that it shall keep fresh and sweet a long time and be most wonderfull sweet in tast Dissolve butter in a clean glazed or silver vessell and in a pan or kettle of water with a slow and gentle fire then pour the same so dissolved into a bason that hath some faire water therein and when it is cold take away the curds and the whay that remain in the bottome And if you will be at the charge thereof you may the second time for it must be twice dissolved dissolve the Butter in Rose-water working them well together the Butter thus clarified will be as sweâ—t in tast as the marrow of any beast by reason of the great impurity that is removed by this manner of handling the fift paâ—t thereof being drosse which makes the Butter many times offensive to the stomach To make Butter tast of any vegetable without altering the colour thereof When the Butter is taken out of the cherne and well worked from the serâ—us part thereof mix with the said Butter as much of the oil oâ— that vegetable which you like best till the same be strong enough in tast to your liking then temper them well together If you do in the month of May mix some oil of Sage with your Bâ—tter it may excuse you from eating Sage with your butter If you mix the oil with the aforesaid clarified Butter it will be farre better and serve for a most dainty dish and indeed a great rarity To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discolouring of it You may mix the distilled oil of what vegetable you would have the Cheese tast of with the curd before the whay be pressed out but be sure you mix them very well that all places may tast alike of it you may make it tast stronger or weaker of it as you please by putting in more or lesse of the oil To purifie and refine Sugar Make a strong Lixiuium of Calx vive whereing dissolve as much course Sugar as the Livivium will beare then put in the white of Egges of 2 to every part of the Liquor being beaten into an oil stir them well together and let them boyl a little and there will arise a scum which must be taken off as loâ—g as any will arise then poure all the Liquor through a great Wollen cloth bag and so the feces will remain behinde in the bag then boyl the Liquor again so long till some drops of it being put upon a cold plate will when they be cold be congealed as hard as salt Then pour out the Liquor into pots or moulds made for that purpose having a hole in the narrower end thereof which must be stopped for one night after and after that night be opened and there will a moist substance drop forth which is called Molosses or Treakle then with potters clay cover the ends of the pot as that clay sinketh down by reason of the sinking of the Sugar fill them up with more clay repeating the doing thereof till the Sugar shrink no more Then take it out till it be hard and dryed then bind it up in papers To make a vegetablâ— grow and become more glorious then any of its species Reduce any vagetable into its three first principles and then joyne them together again being well purified and put the same into a rich earth and you shall have it produce a vegetable far more glorious then any of its species Note how to make such an essence look into the first book and there you shall see the processe thereof To make a Plant grow in two or three houres Take the ashes of Mosse moisten them with the juice of an old dunghill being first pressed forth and streined then dry them a little and moisten them as before do this four or five times put this mixture being neither very dry nor very moist into some earthen or metalline vessell and in it set the seeds of Lettice Purslain or Parsly because they will grow sooner then other Plants being first in pregnated with the essence of a vegetable of its own species the processe whereof you shall find Book 1. page 32 33. till they begin to sprout forth then I say put them in the said earth with that end upwards which sprouts forth Then put the vessell into a gentle heat and when it begins to dry moisten it with some of the said joyce of dung Thou maiest by this meanes have a Sallet grow whilest supper is making ready To make the Idea of any Plant appear in a glasse as if the very plant it selfe were there The processe of this thou maist see pag. 32. and therefore I need not here again repeat it only remember that if you put the flame of a candle to the boâ—tome of the glasse where the essence is by which it may be made hot you wil see that thin substance which is like impalpable ashes or salt send forth from the bottome of the glasse the manifest forme of a vegetable vegetating and growing by little and little and putting on so fully the forme of stalkes leaves and flowers in such perfect
and naturall wise in apparent shew that any one would believe verily the same to be naturally corporall when as in truth it is the spirituall Idea endued with a spirituall essence which serveth for no other purpose but to be matched with its fitting earth that so it may take unto it self a more solid body This shadowed figure assoon as the vessâ—ll is taken from the fire returnes to its ashes again and vanisheth away becoming a Chaos and confused matter To make Firre-trees appear in Turpentine Take as much Turpentine as you please put it into a Retort distill it by degrees when all is distilled off keep the Retort still in a reasonable heat that what humidity is still remaining may be evaporated and it become dry Then take this off from the fire and hold your hand to the bottome of the Retort and the Turpentine that is dried which is called Colophonia will crack asunder in severall places and in those crackes or chaps you shall see the perfect effigies or Firre-trees which will there continue many moneths To make Harts-horn seemingly to grow in a glasse Take Harts-horn broken into small pieces and put them into a glasse Retort to be distilled and you shall see the glasse to be seemingly full of horns which will continue there so long till the volatile salt come over To make golden mountains as it were appeare in a glasse Take of Adders egges half a pound put them into a glasse Retort distill them by degrees when all is dry you shall see the feces at the bottome turgid and puffed up and seem to be as it were golden mountains being very glorious to behold To make the representation of the whole World in a Classe Take of the purest salt Nitre as much as you please of Tin half so much mix them together and calcine them Hermetically then put them into a Retort to which annâ—x a glasse receiver and lâ—â—e them well together let there be leaves of gold put into the bottome thereof then put fire to the Râ—tort untill vapours arise that will cleave to the gold aâ—gment the fire till no more fumes ascend then take away the Receiver and close it Hermetically and make a lamp fire under it and you will see presented in it the Sun Moone Stars Fountains Flowers Trees fruits and indeed even all things which is a glorious sight to behold To make four Elements appear in a glasse Take of the subtle powder of Jet an ounce and half of the oil of Tartar made per Deliquium in which there is not one drop of water besides what the Tartar it self contracted two ounces which you must colour with a light green with Vardegrease of the purest Spirit of Wine ringed with a light blew with Indico 2. ounces of the best rectified Spirit of Turpentine coloured with a light red with Madder 2. ounces Put all these into a glasse and shake them together and you shall see the Jet which is heavy and black fall to the bottome and represent the earth next the oil of Tartar made green representing the element of water falls upon that swims the blew spirit of Wine which will not mix with the oil of Tartar and represents the element of air uppermost will swim the subtle red oil of Turpentine which represents the element of fire It is strange to see how after shaking all these together they will be distinctly separated the one from the other If it be well done as it is easie enough to do it is a most glorious â—ight To make a perpetuall motion in a glasse Take seven ounces of Quicksilver as much Tin grinde them well together with fourteen ounces of Sublimate dissolved in a cellar upon a Marble the space of foure dayes and it will become like oil Olive which distill in sand and there will sublime a dry substance then put the water which distills off back upon the earth in the bottome of the Still and dissolve what you can filter it and distill it again and thiâ— do foure or five times and then that earth will be so subtle that being put into a viall the subtle atomes â—hereof will move up and down for ever Note that the viall or glasse must be close stopt and kept in a dry place To make a Luminous Water that shall give light by night Take the tailes of Glo-wormes put them into a glasse Still and distill them in Balneo pour the said water upon more fresh tailes of Glo-wormes do this four or five times and thou shalt have a most Luminous Water by which thou maist see to read in the dark night Some say this Water may be made of the Skins of Herring and for ought I know it may be probable enough for I have heard that a shole of Herrings coming by a ship in the night have given a great light to all the ship It were worth the while to know the true reason why Glowormes and Herring and some other such like things should be luminous in the night To make a vapour in a chamber that he that enters into it with a candle shall thinke the room to be on fire Dissolve Camphire in rectified Aqua vitae and evaporate them in a very close chamber where no air can get in and he that first enters the chamber with a lighted candle will be much astonished for the chamber will seem to be full of fire very subtle but it will be of little continuance You must note that it is the combustible vapour with which the chamber is filled that takes flame from the candle Divers such like experiments as this may be done by putting such a combustible vapour into a box or cubboard or such like which will assoon as any one shall open them having a candle in his hand take fire and burne To make a powder that by spitting upon shall be inflamed Take a Load-stone powder it and put it into a strong calcining pot cover it all over with a powder made of Calx vive and Colophonia of each a like quantity put also some of this powder under it when the pot is full cover it and lute the closures with potters earth put them into a furnace and there let them boyl then take them out and put them into another pot and set them in the furnace again and this doe till they become a very white and dry Calx Take of this Calx one part of salt Nitre being very well purified foure parts and as much Camphire Sulphur vivum the oil of Turpentine and Tartar grind all these to a subtle powder and searse them and put them into a glasse vessell then put as much Spirit of wine well rectified as will cover them two fingers breadth then close them up and set the vessell in horsedung three moneths and in that time they will all become an uniforme paste evaporate all the humidity untill the whole masse become a very dry stone then take it out and powder it and keep it very
dry If you take a little of this powder and spit upon it or pour some water upon it it will take fire presently so that thou maist light a match or any such thing by it To fortifie a Load-stone that it shall be able to draw a naile out of a piece of wood Take a Load-stone and heat it very hot in coales but so that it be not fired then presently quench it in the Oil of Crocus Martis made of the best steele that it may imbibe as much as it can Thou shalt by this means make the Load-stone so very strong and powerfull that thou maist pull out nailes out of a piece of wood with it and do such wonderfull things with it that the common Load-stone can never do Now the reason of this as Paracelsus saith is because the Spirit of Iron is the life of the Load-stone and this may be extracted from or increased in the Load-stone To make Quick-silver Malleable in seven houres Take of the best lead and melt it and poure it into a hole and when it is almost congealed make a hole in it and presently fill up the hole with quick-silver and it will presently be congelated into a friable substance then beat it into a powder and put it again into a hole of fresh melted lead as before do this 3 or 4 times then boyl it being all in a piece in Linseed oil the space of six houres then take it out and it will become malleable Note that after this it may by being melted over the fire be reduced into quick-silver again A thin plate of the said Mercury laid upon an inveterate Ulter takes away the malignity of it in a great measure and renders it more curable then before A plate of the said Mercury laid upon tumours would be a great deal better repercuâ—â—ive then plates of lead which Chirurgeons use in such cases The powder of the friable substance of Mercury before it be boyled in the oil is very good to be strewed upon old ulcers for it doth much correct the virulency of them To reduce Glasse into its first principles viz. sand and salt Take bits or powder of Glasse as much as you please as much of the Salt which Glassemen use in the making of Glasses melt these together in a strong fire Then dissolve all the melted masse in warme water then pour off the water and you shall see no Glasse but only sand in the bottome which sand was that which was in the glasse before This conâ—utes the vulgar opinion viz. that the fusion of Glasse is the last fusion and beyond all reduction To write or engrave upon an egge or peble with wax or grease Make what letters or figures you please with wax or grease upon an egge or peble put them into the strongest Spirit of Vinegar and there let them lye 2. or 3. dayes and you shall see every place about the letters or figures eaten or consumed away with the said Spirit but the place where the wax or grease was not at all touched the reason whereof is because that the Spirit would not operate upon the said oleaginous matter To make artificiall Pearle as glorious as any orientall Dissolve mother of Pearle in Spirit of vinegar then precipitate it with Oil of Sulphur per Campanam and not with Oil of Tartar for that takes away the splendour of it which addes a lustre to it when it is thus precipitated dry it and mix it with whites of egges and of this masse you may make Pearles of what â—ignesse or fashion you please before they be dryed you may make holes through them and when they be dryed they will not at all or very hardly be discerned from true and naturall Pearles To make a Minerall perfume Dissolve Antomony or Sulphur in the Liquor or Oil of flints or pebles or Crystalls or sand coagulate the solution into a red masse pour thereon the Spirit of urine and digest them till the Spirit be tinged then poure it off and pour more on till all the tincture be extracted put all the tinctures together and evaporate the Spirit of urine in Balneo and there will remain a bloud red Liquor at the bottome upon which pour Spirit of wine you shal extract a purer tincture which smeleth like garlick digest it three or four weeks and it will smell like balme digest it longer and it will smell like Muske or Amber-gryse Besides the smell that it hath it is an excellent Sudorifick and cures all diseases that require sweat as the plague putrid feavers lues venerea and such like The Oil or Liquor of sand flints pebles or Crystalls for the aforesaid preparation is thus made Take of the best salt of Tartar being very well by two or three dissolutions and coagulations purified and powdered in a hot mortar one part of flints pebles or crystals being powdered or small sand well washed the fourth part mingle them well together put as much of this composition as will fill an egge-shell into a Crucible set in the earthen Furnace expressed page 83. and made red hot and presently there will come over a thick and white spirit this doe till you have enough then take out of the Crucible whilest it is glowing hot that which is in it is like transparent glasse which keep from the aire The Spirit may be rectified by â—and in a glasse Retort This Spirit is of excellent use in the gouâ— stone ptisick and indeed in all obstructions provoketh â—weat and urine and cleanseth the stomack and by consequence effectuall in most diseases It being applyed externally cleareth the skin and makes it look very faire Take that which remaines at the bottome in the crucible and beat it to powder and lay it in a moist place and so it dissolveth into a thick fat Oil and this is that which is called the Oil of sand of flints pebles or crystalls This Oil is of wonderfull use in medicine as also in the preparation of all sorts of Mineralls This oil being taken inwdarly in some appropriated Liquor dissolves tartarous coagulations in the body and so opens all obstructions It precipitates metals and makes the calx thereof more weighty then oil of Tartar doth It is of a golden nature it extracts colours from all metals is fixed in all fires maketh fine Crystals and Borax and maturifieth imperfect metals into gold If you put it into water there will precipitate a most fine white earth of which you may make as clear vessels as are China-dishes Note that all sand flints and pebles even the whitest have in them a golden sulphur or tincture and if a prepared lead be for a time digested in this oil it will seem as it were gilded because of the gold that will hang upon it which may be washed away in water Gold also is found in sand and flints c. and if you put Gold into this oil it will become more ponderous thereby To make Steele grow in
tasts partly hot and partly acid This salt being set in a cold cellar on a marble stone and dissolved into an oil is as good as any Lac virginis to clear and smooth the face and dry up any hot pustles in the skin as also against the Itch and old ulcers to dry them up To make an unguent that a few graines thereof being applied outwardly will cause vomiting or loosnesse as you please Take Lapis infernalis mix therewith of distilled oil of Tobacco as much as will make an ointment Keep it in a dry place If you would provoke vomiting anoint the pit of the stomach with five or six graines thereof and the party will presently vomit and as much as with taking of a vomit If you would provoke to loosnesse anoint about the navell therewith and the patient will presently fall into a loosnesse Note that you must give the patient some warme suppings all the time this medicine is working Note also and that especially that you let not the ointment lye so long as to cauterize the part to which it is applyed To make a medicine that halfe a graine thereof being taken every morning will keep the body soluble Take of the distilled oil of Tobacco of which let the essentiall salt of Tobacco imbibe as much as it can Then with this composition make some Lozenges by adding such things as are fitting for such a forme of medicine Note that you put but such a quantity of this oily salt as half a grain only may be in one Lozenge One of these Lozenges being taken every morning or every other morning keepeth the body soluble and is good for them as are apt to be very costive in their bodies Note that you may put some aromaticall ingredient into the Lozenges that may qualifie the offensive odour of the oil if there shall be any To make a Cordiall stomachicall and purgative tincture Make a tincture of Hiera picra with Spirit of wine well rectified and aromatized with Cinnamon or Cloves Two or three spoonfulls of this tincture being taken in a morning twice in a week wonderfully helps those that have weak and foul stomacks it openeth obstructions and purgeth viscosities of the stomach and bowells cureth all inveterate head-ach killeth wormes and indeed leaveth no impurities in the body and is very cordiall for it exceedingly helps them that are troubled with faintings There is nothing offensive in this medicine but the bitternesse thereof which the other extraordinary vertues will more then ballance Another Dissolve Scammony in Spirit of Wine evaporate the one moity then precipitate it by putting Rose-water to it and it will become most white for the black and fetid matter will lye on the top of the precipitated matter which you must wash away with Rose-water Then take that white gum being very well washed and dry it if you please you may powder it and so use it for indeed it hath neither smell nor tast and purgeth without any offence and may be given to children or to any that distast physick in their milk or broth without any discerning of it and indeed it doth purge without any manner of gripings I was wont to make it up into pills with oil of Cinamon or Cloves which gave it a gallant smel and of which I gave a scruple which wrought moderately and without any manner of gripings then dissolve it again in Spirit of Wine being aromatized with what spices you please and this keep This tincture is so pleasant so gentle so noble a purgative that there is scarce the like in the world for it purgeth without any offence is taken without any nauseating and purgeth all manner of humours especially choler and melancholy and is very Cordiall It may be given to those that abhor any medicine as to children or those that are of a nauseous stomach The dose is from half a spoonfull to two or three Note it must be taken of it self for if it be put into any other Liquor the Scammony will precipitate and fall to the bottome After this manner you may prepare Jollap by extracting the gum therefore and then dissolving it in Spirit of wine By this meanes Jollap would not be so offensive to the stomach as usually it is for it is the gum that is purgative and the earthlinesse that is so nauseous Jollap being thus prepared is a most excellent medicine against all hydropick diseases for it purgeth water away without any nauseousnesse or griping at all To reduce distilled Turpentine into its body againe Take the oil of Turpentine and the Colophonia thereof which is that substance which remaines in the bottome after distillation which you must beat to powder Mix these together and digest them and you shall have a Turpentine of the same consistency as before but of a fiery subtle nature Pills made of this Turpentine are of excellent use in obstructions of the breast kidneyes and the like To make the distilled Oil out of any hearb seed or flower in an instant without any furnace You must have a long pipe made of tin which must have a bowle in the middle with a hole in it as big as you can put your finger into it by which you must put your matter that you would have the Oil of Set this matter on fire with a candle or coal of fire then put one end of the pipe into a bason of fair water and blow at the other end and the smoak will come into the water and there will an oil swim upon the water which you may separate with a tunnell To make water and the tincture of any vegetable at the same time which is an excellent way to draw out the vertue thereof This must be performed by these following vessels A Signifies the Furnace it selfe B The Retort which stands in water or sand wherein the matter to be distilled is put instead whereof if you please you may put a gourd glasse with a head to it C The pipe D Another vessell where is more fresh matter out of which the tincture is to be drawne and which stands upon ashes with a fire under it E The furnace with a pan of ashes F The receiver G The hole of the furnace to put in coals to heat the second matter A way to separate fresh water from salt without a furnace or much trouble Take a Caldron with a great and high cover having a beake or nose set it upon a trefoot and under it put fire let this be filled with salt water and there will presently distill off a good quantity of fresh water into a receiver which must be joyned to the nose of the aforesaid cover This is of good use for Sea-men that want fresh water for by this meanes they may distill a good quantity in 24. houres especially if they have any considerable number of the aforesaid vessels a figure whereof is this which followes A way to purge and purifie troubled and muddie waters Fill a great
earth If you put a few drops of this Liquor into a glasse full of fountaine water it will give it the odour and tast of Epsome water that you shall scarce discerne them asunder either by that odour or operation This water is purgative and indeed purgeth especially all sharp burning humours cools an inflamed and opens an obstructed body cleanseth the kidneys and bladder cureth inward ulcers and impostumes is a very good preservative against the consumption c. Fountaine water made acid with this Liquor may be taken from a pint to six or eight but by degrees and after it moderate exercise must be used and fasting till the water be out of the body only some thin warme suppings may be taken to helpe the working thereof Some take this water warm To make artificiall precious stones of all sorts of colours Take Crystalline white pibble-stones that are very white throughout and have no mixture of any other colour which you shal find in fountaines and on the sands of the sea Put them into a crucible make them glowing hot covering the crucible then cast them into cold water by which means they will crack and be easily reduced into a powder Take the powder thereof and put the like quantity of pure salt of Tartar thereto which salt must not be made in any metalline but glasse vessells that it may have no mixture of any other colour To this mixture you may adde what colour you please which must be of a minerall or a metalline nature then put them into a very strong crucible which must be but half full and then covered and there melt them in a strong fire till they become like glasse Note that when this mixture is in melting you must put an iron rod into it and take up some of it if there appear no cornes of gravell in it it is enough If otherwise you must melt it longer The especiall mineralls and metalls that give colours are these viz. Copper iron silver gold Wismut Magnesia and granats Common copper makes a sea-green copper made out of iron a grasse-green granats a smaragdine-green iron yellow or a Hyacinth colour silver white yellow green and granat colour gold a fine skie colour Wismut common blew magnesia an amethyst colour And if you will mix two or three of these together they will give other colous For copper and silver mixed together give an amethyst colour copper and iron a pale green Wismut and magnesia a purple colour silver and magnesia divers colours like as an Opall If you would have this masse not to be transparent but opac you may adde the calx of tin to it when it is in melting as if you would make Lapis lazuli then â—o your mixture coloured with Wismut adde the calx of tin and this mixture when it is almost ready to congeal cast into a mould where some powder of gold hath been scattered and by this means it wil become full of golden veins very like true lapis lazuli which is very pleasant to behold You may by these foresaid preparations cast what formes or figures you please of what colour you please The Metals and Minerals for the making of colours ought to be thus prepared viz. Plates of copper must be made red hot and then quenched in cold water of which then take five or six graines and mix them with an ounce of the aforesaid mixture and melt them all together and they will colour it sea-green Iron must be made into a Crocus in a reverberatory fire and then eight or ten grains thereof will tinge the mixture into a yellow or hyacinth colour Silver is to be dissolved in Aqua fortis and precipitated with Oil of flints then dulcified with water and afterward dryed of this five or six graines give a mingled colour Gold must be dissolved in Aqua regis and precipitated with the Liquor of flints then sweetened and dryed and five or six grains thereof giveth the finest saphir colour to an ounce of the mixture If gold be melted with regulus martis nitrosus five or six graines thereof give to an ounce of the masse a most incomparable rubine colour Magnesia may be powdred only and then ten or twelve grains thereof make an amethyst colour Wismut must be dissolved in Aqua regis and precipitated with Liquor of flints then sweetened and dryed and then of this foure or five graines turne an ounce of the masse into a saphir colour but not so naturall as gold doth Granata may be powder only and then ten or fifteen grains thereof tinge an ounce of the masse into a fine green colour not unlike to the naturall Smaragdine To prove what kinde of metall there is in any Ore although you have but a very few graines thereof so as that you cannot make proofe thereof the ordinary way with lead Take two or foure graines if you have no greater quantity of any Ore that you have put it to halfe an ounce of Venice-glasse and melt them together in a crucible the crucible being covered and according to the tincture that the glasse receiveth from the Ore so may you judge what kinde of metall there is in the Ore for if it be a copper Ore then the glasse will be tinged with a sea-green colour If copper and iron a glasse-green If iron a darke yellow If tin a pale yellow If silver a whitish yellow If gold a fine skie colour If gold and silver together a Smaragdine colour If gold silver copper and iron together an amethyst colour A pretty observation upon the melting of Copper and Tin together First make two bullets of red copper of the same magnitude make also two bullets of the purest tin in the same mould as the others were made weigh all four bullets and observe the weight well then melt the copper bullets first upon them being melted put the two tin bullets and melt them together but have a care that the tin fume not away Then cast this molten mixture in the same moulds as before and it will scarce make three bullets but yet they weigh as heavy as they did before they were melted together I suppose the copper condenseth the body of the tin which before was very porous which condensation rather addes then diminisheth the weight thereof A remarkable observation upon the melting of Salt Armoniack and Calx vive together Take Salt armoniack and Calx vive of each a like quantity mix and melt them together Note that Calx of it selfe will not melt in lesse then eight houres with the strongest fire that can be made but being mixed with this salt melts in half an houre and lesse like a metall with an indifferent fire This mixture being thus melted becomes a hard stone out of which you may strike fire as out of a flint which if you dissolve again in water you shall have the Salt armoniack in the same quantity as before but fixed Note that hard things have their congelation from
of its humidity it is called Mercury and in respect of its terrestriall siccity it is called salt all which are in gold perfectly united depurated and fixed Gold therefore is most noble and solid of all metalls of a yellow colour compacted of principles digested to the utmost hight and therefore fixed Silver is in the next place of dignity to Gold and differs from it in digestion chiefly I said chiefly because there is some small impurity besides adhering to silver Now having given some small account of the originall matter first and second and manner of the growth of gold I shall in the next place set downe some curiosities therein and preparation thereof The preparations are chiefly three viz. Aurum potabile which is the mixtion thereof with other Liquors Oil of gold which is gold liquid by it selfe without the mixture of any other Liquor and the tincture which is the extraction of the colour thereof Dr. Anthony's famous Aurum potabile and Oil of gold Dissolve pure fine gold in Aqua regis according to art the Aqua regis being made of a pound of Aqua fortis and foure ounces of salt Armo niack distilled together by Retort in sand which clear folution put into a large glasse of a wide neck and upon it pour drop by drop Oil of Tartar made per deliquium untill the Aqua regis which before was yellow become clear and white for that is a signe that all calx of gold is setled to the bottome then let it stand all night and in the morning pour off the clear Liquor and wash the calx four or five times with common spring water being warmed and dry it with a most gentle heat Note and that wel that if the heat be too great the calx takes fire presently like Gun-powder and flies away to thy danger and losse therefore it is best to dry it in the sun or on a stone stirring it diligently with a wooden spatle To this calx adde halfe a part of the powder of sulphur mix them together and in an open crucible let the sulphur burne away in the fire putting a gentle fire to it at the first and in the end a most strong fire for the space of an houre that the calx may in some manner be reverberated and become most subtle which keep in a viall close stopt for your use Then make a Spirit of urine after this manner viz. Take the urine of a healthy man drinking Wine moderately put it into a gourd which you must stop close and set in horse-dung for the space of forty dayes then distill it by Alembick in sand into a large receiver untill all the humidity be distilled off Rectifie this Spirit by cohobation three times that the Spirit only may rise Then distill it in sand by a glasse with a long neck having a large receiver annexed and closed very well to it and the Spirit will be elevated into the top of the vessell like crystall without any aqueous humidity accompanying of it Let this distillation be continued untill all the Spirits be risen These crystalls must be dissolved in distilled rain-water and be distilled as before this must be done six times and every time you must take fresh rain-water distilled Then put these crystalls into a glasse bolthead which close Hermetically and set in the moderate heat of a Balneum for the space of fifteen dayes that they may be reduced into a most clear Liquor To this Liquor adde an equall weight of Spirit of Wine very well rectified and let them be digested in Balneo the space of twelve dayes in which time they will be united Then take the calx of gold abovesaid and poure upon it of these united Spirits as much as will cover them three fingers breadth and digest them in a gentle heat untill the Liquor be tinged as red as bloud decant off the tincture and put on more of the aforesaid Spirits and do as before till all the tincture be extracted then put all the tincted Spirits together and digest them ten or twelve dayes after which time abstract the Spirit with a gentle heat and cohobate it once and then the calx will remain in the bottome like an Oil as red as bloud and of a pleasant odour and which will be dissolved in any Liquor Whereof this Oil may be the Succedaneum of true gold If you distill the same solution by Retort in sand there will come over after the first part of the menstruum the tincture with the other part thereof as red as bloud the earth which is left in the bottome of the vessell being black dry spongious and light The menstruum must be vapoured away and the Oil of gold will remain by it self which must be kept as a great treasure and this is Dr. Anthony's Aurum potabile Foure or eight graines of this Oil taken in what manner soever wonderfully refresheth the Spirits and workes severall wayes especially by sweat The true Oil of Gold Take an ounce of leafe-gold dissolve it in foure ounces of the rectified water of Mercury expressed page 75. digest them in horse-dung the space of two moneths then evaporate the Mercuriall water and at the bottome you shall have the true Oil of gold which is radically dissolved Another processe hereof you may see page 71. A Tincture of Gold Dissolve pure gold in Aqua regis precipitate it with the Oil of sand into a yellow powder which you must dulcifie with warme water and then dry it this will not be fired as Aurum fulminans This powder is twice as heavie as the gold that was put in the cause of which is the salt of the flints precipitating it selfe with the gold Put this yellow powder into a crucible and make it glow a little and it will be turned into the highest and fairest purple that ever you saw but if it stand longer it will be browne Then poure upon it the strongest Spirit of salt for it will dissolve it better then any Aqua regis on which dissolution poure on the best rectified Spirit of Wine and digest them together and by a long digestion some part of the gold will fall to the bottome like a white snow and may with Borax Tartar and salt Nitre be melted into a white metall as heavy as gold and afterwards with Antimony may recover its yellow colour againe then evaporate the Spirit of salt and of Wine and the gold Tincture remaineth at the bottome and is of great vertue Another Tincture of Gold Take of the aforesaid yellow Calx of gold precipitated with Oil of sand one part and three or foure parts of the Liquor of sand or of crystalls mix them well together and put them into a crucible in a gentle heat at first that the moisture of the Oil may vapour away which it will not do easily because the drynesse of the sand retaines the moisture thereof so that it flyeth away like molten allum or borax when no more will
vapour away encrease your fire till the crucible be red hot and the mixture cease bubling then put it into a wind furnace and cover it that no ashes fall into it and make a strong fire about it for the space of an houre and the mixture will be turned into a transparent Rubie Then take it out and beat it and extract the tincture with Spirit of wine which will become like thin bloud and that which remaines undissolved may be melted into a white metall as the former Another tincture of Gold Hang plates of gold over the fume of Argent vive and they will become white friable and fluxil as wax This is called the Magnesia of gold as saith Paracelsus in finding out of which saith he philosophers as Thomas Aquinas and Rupescissa with their followers took a great deale of paines but in vaine and it is a memorable secret and indeed very singular for the melting of metals that are not easily fluxil Now then gold being thus prepared and melted together with the Mercury is become a brittle substance which must be powdered and out of it a tincture may be drawn for the transmuting of metals Another Tincture Take halfe an ounce of pure gold dissolve it in Aqua regis precipitate it with Oil of flints dulcifie the calx with warme water and dry it and so it is prepared for your work Then take Regulus Martis powdered and mix it with three parts of salt Nitre both which put into a crucible and make them glow gently at first then give a strong melting fire and then this mixture will become to be of a purple colour which then take out and beat to powder and add to three parts of this one part of the calx of gold prepared as before put them into a wine furnace in a strong crucible and make them melt as a metall so will the Nitrum antimoniatum in the melting take the calx of gold to it selfe and dissolve it and the mixture will become to be of an Amethyst colour Let this stand flowing in the fire till the whole masse be as transparent as a Rubine which you may try by taking a little out and cooling of it If the mixture do not flow well cast in some more salt Nitre When it is compleatly done cast it forth being flowing into a brazen mortar and it wil be like to an orientall Rubine then powder it before it be cold then put it into a viall and with the Spirit of Wine extract the tincture This is one of the best preparations of gold and of most excellent use in medicine Another Tincture First make a furnace fit for the purpose which must be close at the top and have a pipe to which a recipient with a flat bottome must be fitted When this furnace is thus fitted put in three or foure graines not above at once of Aurum fulminans which assoon as the furnace is hot flyeth away into the recipient through the pipe like a purple coloured fume and is turned into a purple coloured powder then put in three or four grains more and doe as before till you have enough flowers of gold that which flyeth not away but remaineth at the bottome may with borax be melted into good gold then take them out and pour upon them rectified Spirit of Wine tartarizated and digest them in ashes till the spirit be coloured bloud red which you must then evaporate and at the bottome will be a bloud red tincture of no small vertue Aurum fulminans Take the purest gold you can get pour on it four times as much Aqua regia stop your glasse with a paper and set it in warme ashes so will the Aqua regia in an houre or two take up the gold and become a yellow water if it be strong enough be sure that your gold hath no copper in it for then your labour will be lost because the copper will be precipitated with the gold and hinder the firing thereof then pour on this yellow water drop by drop pure Oil of Tartar made per deliquium so will the gold be precipitated into a dark yellow powder and the water be clear Note that you pour not on more Oil of Tartar then is sufficient for the precipitation otherwise it will dissolve part of the precipitated gold to thy prejudice Pour off the clear Liquor by inclination and dulcifie the calx with distilled rain-rain-water warmed Then set this calx in the sun or some warme place to dry but take great heed and especiall care that you set it not in a place too hot for it will presently take fire and fly away like thunder not without â—reat danger to the standers by if the quantity be great This is the common way to make Aurum fulminans and it hath considerable difficulties in the preparation But the best way is to precipitate gold dissolved in Aqua regis by the Spirit of salt Armoniack or of urine for by this way the gold is made purer then by the other and giveth a far greater crack and sound Note that the salt of the Spirits which is precipitated with the gold must be washed away and the gold dulcified as before A few grains of this being fired give a crack and sound as great as a musket when it is discharged and will blow up any thing more forcibly far then gunpowder and it is a powder that will quickly and easily be fired This is of use for physick as it is in powder but especially it is used in making the foregoing tincture To make gold grow in a glasse like a tree which is called the golden tree of the Philosophers Take of Oil of sand as much as you please pour upon it the same quantity of Oil of Tartar per deliquium shake them well together that they be incorporated and become as one Liquor of a thin consistence then is your Menstruum or Liquor prepared Then dissolve gold in Aqua regia and evaporate the Menstruum and dry the Calx in the fire but make it not too hot for it will thereby lose its growing quality then take it out and break it into little bits not into powder put those bits into the aforesaid Liquor that they may lye a fingers breadth the one from the other in a very clear glasse Keep the Liquor from the air and you shall see that those bits of the calx will presently begin to grow first they will swell then they will put forth one or two stems then divers branches and twigs so exactly as that you can not chuse but exceedingly to wonder This growing is reall and not imaginary only Note that the glasse must stand still and not be moved Another way Calcine fine gold in Aqua regis that it become a calx which put into a gourd glasse and pour upon it good and fresh Aqua regia and the water of gradation so that they cover the calx four fingers breadth this Menstruum abstract in the
each 6 drams and a half Angelica roots 6 drams and a half or Hearb Angelica 3 ounces a dram and half White Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the fifth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each 4 ounces Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 8 ounces Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 3 ounces Wormwood dry 10 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half or what sufficeth The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Cubebs of each three drams and a quarter Sweet Fennel seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and a half Cloves Caraway seeds Nutmegs of each 2 drams and a half Wormwood dry 1 ounce white Sugar 4 ounces or what sufficeth Additions to the sixth Chapter The greater quantity Take Garden Thyme Penny royall of each 3 handfuls Cardamums 2 ounces Sweet Fennell feeds Aniseeds of each eight ounces Balm dry 1 pound Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 4 ounces The lesser quantity Take Garden Thym Penny royall of each what sufficeth Cardamums a dram and half Sweet Fennell seeds Aniseeds of each 6 drams and an half Balm dry 1 ounce 4 drams Nutmeg Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Galingale Cinamon of each 3 drams and a quarter Additions to the seventh Chapter The greater quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each one pound Calamus Aromaticus 4 ounces White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Spear Mint dry Aniseeds of each 1 ounce 5 drams Calamus Aromaticus 3 drams and a quarter White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the eight Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 8 ounces Aâ—â—seeds Rosemary dry of each 1 pound Caraway 2 ounces Spear Mint dry 2 handfuls White Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds Cinamon of each 6 drams and a half Aniseeds Rosemary dry of each 1 ounce five drams Caraway 1 dram and a half Spear Mint dry what sufficeth White Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the ninth Chapter The greater quantity Take Caraway seeds 4 ounces Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 pound White Sugar 2 pound and a half in like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art The lesser quantity Take Caraway seeds 3 drams and 3 quarters Aniseeds Limon pils dry of each 1 ounce 5 drams White Sugar 4 ounces In like manner and quantity make your Composition with Orange pils dry according to Art Additions to the twelfth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon 5 ounces Cloves 2 ounces Limon pils dry 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon half an ounce Cloves a dram and halfe Limon pils dry 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Addition to the fourteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 5 ounces Nutmeg 3 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell Cinamon of each 4 drams Nutmegs 2 drams and a half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the fifteenth Chapter Take and adde to the spirit half as much as the rule of every particular Ingredient therein expressed and in stead of Sanders give it the tincture of Roses July flowers or Poppy what sufficeth according to Art Additions to rhe eighteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each half a dram White Sugar candy in stead of common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk in some cause may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use there of in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses The lesser quantity Take Musk Ambergreese of each 3 grains White Sugar Candy in stead of Common white Sugar what sufficeth according to Art In respect that Musk for some causes may give offence to the receiver it is requisite to omit the use thereof in some of your water of this kind to serve for such speciall uses Additions to the ninteenth Chapter The greater quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 5 pound Caraway seeds four ounces Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon eight ounces Cloves 2 ounces Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Sweet Fennell seeds 8 ounces Caraway seeds three drams and a quarter Aniseeds 1 ounce 5 drams Cinamon 6 drams and a half Cloves a dram and half Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twentieth Chapter The greater quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 5 ounces Caraway Cloves of each 2 ounces Marigolds 2 gallons Sugar 2 pound and a half The lesser quantity Take Cinamon Sweet Fennell of each 4 drams Caraway Cloves of each a dram and half Marigolds what sufficeth Sugar 4 ounces Additions to the twenty third Chapter The Syrup for dulcifying the water is thus to be made Take Apricots Quinces Cherries English Currants of each what sufficeth all full ripe and of equall weight when they are thus prepared as followeth The Furnace used in the drawing of the preceding Spirits and waters A Sheweth the bottome which ought to be of Copper C The barrell filled with cold water to refrigerate and condensate the water and oyle that run through it D A pipe of brasse or pewter or rather a worm of Tin running through the barrell E The Alembick set in the furnace with the fire under it Excellent Waters for severall uses CHAP. I. A water to cause Hair faln to grow again TAke Mountain Hysop Mountain Calamint leaves of Southernwood of each two handfuls Canary Wine Urine Hony Milk of each two pound Mustard seed half a ponud bruife what is to be bruised Macerate them three dayes then distil them in Balneo CHAP. II. A water to cause hair taken off never to grow again Take seeds of Henbane bruised 2 pound lay it a while in some moist place then adde great stone-crop half a pound distil it according to Art Another Take bloud of Frogs Terrae Sigillatae Sumach Roses Sorrell Housleeks what is sufficient Macerate them together 24 houres then distil them in Balneo CHAP. III. A water to take away spots in the Face Take Asses Milk four pound White wine 1 pound the inside of two new loaves 12 Egges with the shels Sugar-Candy 3 drams Mix them well together and distil them CHAP. IV. A water against Scabs Take Sorrell water 2 pound Juice of Plaintane Rose water of each 4 ounces Juice of Limons 2 ounces Lytharge 6 ounces Ceruse Sublimate of each half an ounce Sulphure vive 3 drams bruise them that are to be bruised then infuse them 24 houres and after distill them according to Art CHAP. V. A water to preserve the Sight Take Fennell Vervains Eye-bright Endive Betonies Red Roses Venus Hair of each three handfuls Bruise the Hearbs and macerate them 24 houres in white wine as much as is sufficient then distil them in a limbeck in Balneo Another Take Fennell Celandine Sage Rosemary Vervain Rue of each equall parts Prepare as it before CHAP. VI. A water to restore the sight decayed Take
Fennell Celandine Vervaine Rue Leaves of Enula Fullers Teesell Milfoile of each one handfull Camphire half a dram Bruise them and distil them in an Alembick CHAP. VII A water against the Gout Take Licorice half a pound Aniseeds 1 pound Cinamon 3 ounces Galingale Ginger Roots of Iroes Enula Campana Seeds of Fennell Caraway Amomum Ammi Piony Basil Savory Marjoram of each one ounce Juniper Berries 2 ounces Ground Ivie half a handfull Long Pepper Calamus Spikenard Mace of each 3 drams Valerian 1 dram Roots of Angelica half an ounce Cyprus 4 ounces Lignum Aloes half an ounce Sugar 4 ounces Maliga Wine or strong Ale 32 pound Prepare and distil them according to Art This water taken inwardly strengthens cold and weak Stomachs and breaks the Stone Outwardly applyed it easeth the Gout enlargeth Sinews that are shrunk and is good against all aches and passion proceeding from melancholy and cold CHAP. VIII A Water for the Web and spots in the Eyes Take Rue Plantaine Red roses Red Poppies Vervaine Celandine leaves of each 1 ounce Red rose water 1 pound Rich white wine 1 pound and an half Tutia prepared 1 dram Aloes Hepatick an ounce and a half Cloves 1 ounce Powder prepare and distil them according to Art Drop the water into the Eyes morning and evening CHAP. IX A water for Tetters Fistulas Cankers c. Take strong white Wine Vinegar 8 pound Wood Ashes 1 pound Infuse them 3 dayes naturall and stir them twice a day then put thereto unslaked lime 1 pound let it stand other three dayes and stir it as before when it is well setled Filtre off the clear Lee and put thereto Sal Gemme Salt Alkali Salis Vitae Salt Armoniac Salt of Tartar of each one dram Calx of Egge shels and Calx vive of each 1 dram Grind all these together and temper them with the said Lee put them into a Glass lembick and distil them in Balneo give it the first 24 houres no more heat then will make it and keep it warm after that distil it off according to Art CHAP. X. A water agoinst rednesse of the Face and to beautifie the Skin Take Wild Purslaine Mallows Nightshade Plantain with the seeds of each three handfuls The Whites of 12 Egges Limons number 12 Roch Allum 4 ounces prepair and distil them according to Art Another Take Calx of Egge shels White Corall pulverized of each 2 ounces Salt calcinated and Borax of each 6 ounces Gum Tragagant 5 ounces Roots of white Lillies number 6 White Sope 8 pound Styrax Calamita Belzoin of each 4 ounces Mix and distil them by Alembick Another of the same vertue Take Wine Vinegar half a pound Lytharge of gold 1 ounce and a half Ceruse 1 ounce Sal Gem 6 drams Roch Alum half an ounce Borax Sulphure vive Salt Nitre of each three drams Camphire half a dram prepare and distil them according to Art CHAP. XI A water against the inordinate Flux of Teares Take ripe Strawberries as many as you please set them to digest in Horse dung 15 dayes then distil them in Balneo Or thus Take Flowers of the white Thorn Leaves or tops of the Willow Eye-bright of each what sufficeth distil them as before CHAP. XII A water against rednesse of the Eyes Take juice of Celandine Rue Vervaine Fennel of each three ounces Tops and leaves of Roses of each what sufficeth Sugar Candy 3 ounces of the best Tutia Sanguis Dracâ—nis of each four ounces Bruise them that are to be bruised and distil them according to Art CHAP. XIII A Water to clense and dry a sharp Vlcer Take Crude Allum 2 ounces white of Egges number 15. Juice of Purslaine Plantaine Nightshade Nicotian Houseleek Water of Meadsweet Trinity grasse Roses of each 4 ounces Labour them well together and draw off the Water by an Alembick of Glasse in Balneo CHAP. XIV A water to make the Teeth white Take Allum 6 ounces Common Salt 3 ounces Myrrhe Mastick Cloves of each 6 drams Mix bruise and distil them according to Art CHAP. XV. A Water to take away the marks of the Small Pox. Take Mastick Myrrhe Aloes Hepatick Nard Sanguis Draconis Olibanum Opopanax Bdelium Carpobal samum Saffron Gum Arabick Liquid Storax of each 2 drams and a handful Beat what is to be beaten then adde thereto of clear Turpentine equall weight distil them according to Art CHAP. XVI A Water to Cicatrize Vlcers Take red Wine 2 pound Plantaine water half a pound Rose water four ounces Juice of Plantaine Vervaine Shepheards Purse Knotgrasse Centaury the lesse Comfery the greater and lesser of each 2 ounces Crude Allum 1 pound Cypresse Nuts 3 ounces Pomgranate flowers half an ounce Pomgranate pils 3 ounces Gals half an ounce Bark of the Oak Sumach of each five drams Turpentine 3 ounces Crude Honey half a pound Mastick Olibanum of each ten drams Sarcocoll 2 ounces Burnt Vitriol Burnt lead of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 3 ounces Cassia lignea halfan ounce Round Birtwort 3 ounces Powder what is to be powdred then mix and distil them Another Take Mastick Myrrhe Olibanum Sarcocoll Mummie of each 3 drams Frankincense 1 ounce Nutmegs Cinamon Cloves Cubebs of each 2 drams Cyprus Nuts half an ounce Flowers Barkes of Pomgranates of each 1 dram Bole Armoniack 1 ounce Sanguis Draconis half an ounce Red Roses 3 drams Roch Allum 1 pound Vitriol 7 drams Clarifiâ—d Honey 1 ounce Aqua vitae a pound and half White Wine 1 pound Juice of Plantaine Nightshade Comfery of the greater and lesser of each 4 ounces Water wherein iron hath been quenched 4 pound Powder what is to be powdred and infuse them all night in Aqua vitae in the morning draw forth the water by Alembick CHAP. XVII A Water for Vlcers Take White Wine 4 pound Plantain water 2 pound Allum half a pound White Copperas 5 ounces Crude Honey 1 pound Licorice Rasped 1 pound Bole Armoniack 5 ounces Camphire an ounce and half Mercury sublimated 2 drams Bruise what is to be bruised and distil them by Alembick CHAP. XVIII A Water for hollow Vlcers Take Fountaine water Red Wine of each 2 pound and a halt Red Roses four ounces Flowers Rindes of Pomgranates of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage a handfull Comfery the greater and lesser of each half a handfull Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half bruise what is to be bruised and distil them through a lembick of Glasse with a gentle fire CHAP. XIX A Cicatrizing Water Take water wherein Iron hath been quenched four pound Aqua Balsami veri four pound Turpentine a pound and half Crude Honey 1 pound Allum 10 ounces white Copperas five ounces Bole Armoniack 7 ounces Mercury sublimated half a dram leaves of Plantain Comfery the greater middle and lesser Teasill Knotgrasse St. Johns Wort of each a handful and a half Frankincense 2 ounces Olibanum White Sanders of each half an ounce
Red Roses a handfull and a half Cassia Lignea Cinamon of each 3 drams for the first distillation then take Turpentine 1 pound Mastick 3 drams pure Rozen 6 ounces Cinamon Cloves of each 2 drams Pomgranate rinds half an ounce Cyprus Nuts 1 ounce and a half White Copperas two ounces Allum 3 ounces Olibanum 4 ounces Sanguis draconis an ounce and a half Aqua Balsam veri 1 pound for the second distillation Afterwards Take Flowers of St. Johns Wort Sage Rosemary Carduus Benedictus Centaury of each 1 ounce Mastick Red Sanders of each 3 drams Wood of Aloes 2 scruples Cubebs one dram Aqua vitae half a pound Burnt Allum White Tartar of each an ounce and a half Myrrhe half an ounce Earth Wormes in powder 1 dram the middle Bark of the Oak 6 ounces Cassia lignea three drams White Copperas 1 ounce Rindes of Pomgranates half an ounce Cinamon 2 drams Flowers of Pomgranates 1 dram Guaiacum four ounces Carpobalsamum Xylobalsamum of each 1 dram Myrtles Mummie of each 2 drams Borax half an ounce Cloves 2 drams Tormentill Gentian of each 2 drams and a half Round Birt-wort This is for the last distillation afterwards adde Burnt Allum half an ounce White Copperas 2 drams Mastick 1 ounce in fine powder and then keep it for use CHAP. XX. A water for hollow Wounds Take Fountain water Red Wine of each 2 ounces an half Red Roses 4 ounces Pomgranat flowers Pomgranate rindes of each 2 ounces and a half Sumach 2 ounces Sage 1 handfull both the Coâ—feries of each a handfull Allum half a pound Sarcocoll 3 ounces Mastick 2 ounces Olibanum 1 ounce Honey 1 pound water of Turpentine a pound and a half Prepare the Ingredients according to Art and then distil them all together in a glasse lembick with a gentle fire CHAP. XXI A water for Wounds and Vlcers Take Calx vive extinct in Fountain water 8 pound Plantain water four ounces Rose water 2 pound Heat all these together afterward let them stand and clear pour forth all the clear to the lembick and put to it Honey 2 pound Allum 1 ounce Borax Mastick of each three ounces Olibanum four ounces the middle Bark of the Oak dryed 3 ounces powder what is to be powdred and distil them according to Art CHAP. XXII A water to make the Teeth white Take the first distilled water of Honey which is white one pound Allum half a pound Sal Nitre White Salt of each one ounce Water of Lentisk leaves 1 pound Mastick two ounces White Vineger White Wine of each 2 ounces Mix and distil them according to Art reserve the water CHAP. XXIII A water against the Colick Take Muscadell or Malmsey four pound Nutmegs Galls of each 1 dram Cinamon Cloves Grains of each two drams Powder the ingredients grossely and infuse them in the wine 24 houres then with a soft fire draw off the water according to Art CHAP. XXIV A water for a cold Stomach Take Citron and Orange pils dryed of each 2 ounces Rosemary Mints of each one handfull Cinamon Cloves Cubebs Cardamums Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram and a half Sage Pennyroyall Thyme of each one handfull Caraway seeds Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each four drams Bruise what is to be bruised and infuse them all the space of 24 houres in Canary wine four pints then distil them in Balneo according to Art CHAP. XXV Water of Sage Compound Take Sage Marjoram Thyme Lavender Epithâ—â—um Betâ—â— of each 1 ounce Cinamon half an ounce Ireos Roots of Cyprus Calamus Aromaticus of each 1 ounce Storax Benjamin of each a dram and a half Infuse them four dayes in four pound of spirit of Wine then distil them in Balneo CHAP. XXVI Lavender water Compound Take flowers of Lavender Lilly of the Valley of each 24 handfuls Piony Tillia Flowers of Rosemary Sage of each half a handfull Cinamon Ginger Cloves Cubebs Galingale Calamus Aromaticus Mace Messelto of the Oak of each a dram and a half Piony roots one ounce and a half of the best Wine what sufficeth infuse them in the Wine two dayes then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water is good against the Falling sicknesse Convulsion fits and the infirmities of the Brain CHAP. XXVII A Pectorall Water Take the Liver of a Calf the Lungs of a Fox of each number 1 Liverwort Longwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handfull Roots of Enula Gladiol of each half an ounce Seeds of Anise Caraway Fennell of each half an ounce Flowers of Borage and Buglosse of each two drams infuse them the space of 24 houres in rich old Wine what sufficeth Water of Scabius Carduus Benedictus of each four ounces Hysop 2 ounces then distil it in Balneo Mariae Another Take leaves of Scabius Veronica of each two handfuls Venus Hair Sage Hysop Horehound Liverwort Licorice of each one handfull Flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets of each half a handfull Roots of Enula Campana Licorice Flowers of Ireos of each half an ounce Aniseeds Fennell seeds of each one dram Choyse Cinamon orientall Saffron of each half a dram let them be bruised and cut be digested in water of Scabius Veronica of each one pound water of Hysop half a pound white Wine 3 pound let them digested two days be distilled in Balneo Mariae adde Sugar Candy what sufficeth This water openeth the obstructions of the Liver and Lungs and strengtheneth them CHAP. XXVIII Aqua Splenetica Take roots of Fern 2 ounces roots of Parsley Polypody of each an ounce and a half roots of Round Birt wort Lovage Calamus Aromaticus Acorns of the water of each 1 ounce chosen Rubarb barks of Tamarisk Copperas Ash of each half an ounce Lovage Seeds of Caraway Cummin Anise of each two drams Scolopendria tops of Wormwood Fumiterre Dodder leaves of Agrimony Ceterach of each a handfull and a half Rich Wine 8 pound let them be digested two dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae This water strengtheneth the Spleen openeth and provoketh Vrine CHAP. XXIX Aqua Febrifuga Take roots of Vipers grasse Cinquefoil Tormentill Dictamum of each 6 drams Seeds of Citron excorticated Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Sorrel of each half an ounce of all the Sanders of each 1 dram of the Cordiall flowers of each 1 handfull Goats Rue one handfull Harts horn rasped half an ounce pour upon them bruised water of Tormentill Cychorie Carduus Benedictus Carduus Mariae Wild Poppy of each what sufficeth let them be macerated three dayes in a glasse close shut afterward adde Citrons bruised number six Juice of Endive Carduus Benedictus Plantain of each one pound Borage Scordium of each half a pound let them be distilled in Balneo Mariae This water is convenient in Feavers especially malignant Feavers because it driveth away the malignity and resisteth putrefaction CHAP. XXX Aqua Damascena Odorifera Take Ireos Flowers Cloves Cubebs Cinamon Grains of Paradise Calamus Aromaticus of each one ounce Marjoram Thyme
Bay leaves Rosemary Flowers Red Roses of each a handfull Lavender flowers three drams of the best Wine 3 measures let them be macerated â—nd distilled to the distilled liquor add Musk half a scruple Civet 6 grains This water beateth dryeth cutteth discusseth and chiefly strengtheneth the Heart and Head CHAP. XXXI Aqua Hysterica Take roots of Dictamnum seeds of Daucus of each one ounce Cinamon Cassia lignea Balm of each two scruples Orientall Saffron 1 scruple New Castorium 1 scruple and a half of all these mixt make a powder to which let be poured water of Rue two pound and a half let them stand in infusion four dayes and then distil them in Balneo Mariae CHAP. XXXII Aqua Nephretica Take roots of Enula Campaâ—a Cammock Pimpernell Radish of each one ounce Parsley Lovage of each 7 drams leaves of Lovage Parsley of each one handfull Saxifrage cum toto two ounces Flowers of Broom Balm Rosemary of each half a handfull Elder one handfull Berries of Juniper Myrtle Alcakengie Anifeeds of each 2 ounces cut them and infuse them the space of 8 dayes in 12 pound of the best white Wine then let them be distilled This water openeth and provoketh Vrine the dose is one spoonfull CHAP. XXXII Aqua Aperitiva Take roots of Eringo Vipers graffe Fern the greater Centaury of each half an ounce roots of Fennell Banks of Cappâ—ris Tamarisk Ash of each three drams Barks of Citrons two drams and a half Seeds of Carduus Benedictus Cichorie of each half an ounce Seeds of Endive Cresses Citrons Scariol of each two drams Polytricon Adianthum Ceterach Dodder Scolopendria Betony Endive of each a handfull and a half Tops of Thyme Epithymum Hops Flowers of St. Johns Wort Broome Borage Balm of each 1 handfull Small Raisins 1 ounce Cinamon 1 dram and a half Spec. Dialace half a dram Carduus Benedictus Water of Hops Scolopendria Pauls Betony of each one pound Rhenish Wine two pound and a half let them stand two days in a warm place in a vessel close stopped afterward distil them in Balneo This water openeth the obstructions of the whole body but especially of the Liver Spleen and Mesentery FINIS A Catalogue of the Materials and Ingredients used in the precedent Rules ROOTS ANgelica Avens Butter-Bur Calamus Arâ—maticus Cyperus long Contra-yerva Enula-campana Galingal Gentian Ginger Horse Radish Imperitoria Licorice Lovage Orris Sassafras Scordium Snake-grasse Valerian Common Garden Great Vincetoxicum Zedoary WOODS LIgnum Rhodium Sanders Red Yellow BARKS and PILLS BAy-tree Roots Cassia Lignea Cinamon Common White Citron Guaiacum Limon Orange Pippins Quinces Sassafras HEARBS ANgelica Arsmart Bay-leaves Balm or Bawm Burnet Brooklime Balsamint or Costmary Carduus Benedictus Chervile sweet Clary Calamint Cresses Water Garden Winter Bank Costmary or Balsamint Horehound white Lavender leaves Lavender Cotton Mint Speir Red Marjoram Sommer Peny Royal Rosemary Rocket Ros solâ—s Rue Sage Red Great Scurvygrasse Common Garden Stoechados Southernwood Scordium Thyme Wilde Garden Limon Tarragon Trefoil Water Valerian great Wormwood Common Romane FLOWERS COwslip Citron Camomile Elder Gilliflowers Clove Giâ—iflowers Stock three sorts Jasmine Lavender Lillium Convallium Marygold Melilot Orange Poppy Red Roses Red Damask Musk Bryer Saffron Sage Stoechas Tillia or Lindentree Thyme Garden Limon Wilde Woodbine or Honey-suckle SEEDS ANise Angelica Basil Caroway Cardamums Cresse Bank Chervile sweet Coriander Cummin Fennel sweet Grains of Paradise Mustard Radish Rocket Scurvy-grasse Garden Wormwood common FRUITS APricotes Alkerms Berries Barley Maulted Barley Maulted Cardamums Cherries Currans Forain English Cubebs Cloves Grapes Hops Juniper Berries Maces Nutmegs Pepper White Long Quinces Raspis Red Raysins sol Strawberries Saffron Walnuts green with husks Zedoary JUICES LImons Walnuts green with the Husks Others of divers kindes AMbergreese Allum Benjamin Camphire Confection of Alkermes Mithridate Musk Treakle Venice Syrup of Gilliflowers Storax Sugar of divers sorts Liquid Materials WInes of all kindes Beer and Ale After-Worts or Wash Sugar-Waters Tilts Dregs Lees or Grounds of Beer or Ale Lees of Wines Spirits of Wine Rose-water FINIS An Alphabeticall Table of all the Oils Waters Experiments and Curiosities contained in the six foregoing Bookes A. OYle of Adders 97 Quintessence of Adders 98 Air in the heat of the summer and the heat of the day to condense into water 137 The form of an Alembick 31 Oile of Amber 38 Spirit of Ambergreese 123 Oile or Butter of Antimony 70 Water of Antimony 71 Spirit Essence of Antimony 72 An Antimoniall Cup to make 165 Water of rotten Apples 24 Aqua vitae of Wine 24 Aqua vitae of Beere 25 Aqua vitae to rectifie 26 Aqua vitae Irish 45 Aqua fortis 69 Another 70 Aqua Regia Another 69 Tearms of Art Explained 8 Oile of Arsenick 68 Aurum Poâ—abile of Doctor Anthony 175 Aurum Fulmâ—nans 180 B. THe Delineation of a Balneum Mariae 21 Another 22 Another 23 A Balneum of Wood 29 Balsam of Bears Fat 97 For Baths a new Invention 152 A Hot Bath Artificiall from the same principles as the Naturall Bath is 154 Bellowes Philosophicall 150 Water of Berries 21 Oyl of Berries 35 Bezoard Water 58 Bezoard Extract 59 A dead Bird to raise to life 118 Oyl Water Magistery of Bloud 89 Oil of Bole Armoniack 79 Oil of Bones 101 Essence of mans Brains 90 Doctor Burgesse Plvgue Water 53 Burnt-root water compound 52 To purifie Butter And to make Butter tast of any Vegetable without altering its color 125 C. Oyle of Camphire severall wayes to make 37 A Candle that shall last long 148 Spirit of Castor 58 To make Cheese tast strong of any vegetable without discoloring it 125 Aqua Coelestis 46 Water against the Colâ—ck 51 Water against Convulsions 50. 51 Water of Corall 81 Water of Crabs 102 Oil of Crabs Eyes 103 Spirit of Cranium Humanum 91 D. DIstillation and its kinds 1 Vessels for Distillation 3 Rules for Distillation 12 Common distilled Waters 17 Distilling in wooden Vessels 29 To Distill Spirits of Minerals Vegetables Bones Horns c. 76 Water of Dung Doves Dung Cow Dung Horse Dung 100. 101. E. OIle Water of Egs 102 To engrave upon an Egge or Peble with wax or Grease 132 The four Elements to make appeare in a Glasse 128 Water of Elder Berries 21 Elixir Subtilitatus of Paracelsus 45 The Processe of the Elixir according to Paracelsus 188 according to Divi leschi Genus Amo 189 F. FIre to keep Fire in a Glasse that whilest the Glasse is shut will not burn but as soon as it is opened will be enflamed 144 For Fire an excellent invention 151 To make Firre trees appear in Turpentine 127 Water of Flesh 95. 96 Flesh to make Artificially 118 Water of the Spawn of Frogs simple and compound 103. 104 Furnaces the Matter and Form 2 A Furnace to distill liquor with the steam of Boyling water 20 Furnaces for four rectifications at once 28 A Furnace to distill per descensum 41 A Furnace for Reverberation 71 A Furnace that shall of it self
a good Purgative and Diaphoretick medicine Take an ounce of Quick-silver not purified put it into a bolt head of glass which you must nip up set it over a strong fire in sand for the space of two months and the Quick-silver wil be turned into a red sparkling Precipitate Take this powder and lay it thin on a Marble in a Cellar for the space of two months and it wil be turned into a water which may be safely taken inwardly it wil work a little upward and downward but chiefly by sweat Note that you may set divers glasses with the same matter in the same Furnace that so you may make the greater quantity at a time I suppose it is the Sulphur which is in the Quick-silver and makes it so black that being stirred up by the heat of the fire fixeth the Mercury A fragrant oil of Mercury Take of Mercury seven times sublimed and as often revived with unslaked Lime as much as you please dissolve it in spirit of Nitre in a moderate heat then abstract the spirit of salt and edulcorate it very well by boiling it in spirit of Vinegar then abstract the spirit of Vinegar and wash it again with distilled rain water then dry it and digest it two months in a like quantity of the best rectified spirit of Wine you can get Distil them by Retort making your fire moderate at the beginning afterwards increasing it then evaporate the spirit of Wine in Balneo and there will remain in the bottome a most fragrant oil of Mercury This oil so purifies the bloud by sweat and urine that it cures all distempers that arise from the impurity thereof as the venereal disease c. The truth is they that have this medicine well made need but few other medicines the dose is four or five drops To turn Mercury into a water by it self Set this following vessell being made of iron into a Furnace so that the three bowls thereof be within the Furnace and the Pipe and Receiver be without Make your Furnace so as that there be a great hole left open at the top where you must put in your coals shutting it afterward with a cover of stone made fit thereunto on the top also must be holes to let in air The Vessell for this Operation First make your Iron vessel as red hot as possibly it can be made or else you do nothing having first annexed an earthen well-glazed Receiver to the bottom of it Then put half an ounce of Quick-silver at a time in at the top which presently stop with clay and presently the Mercury will come over part in a sharp Liquor and part as crude a Mercury as it was before which you may put in again till it be all turned to water Note that unless the Quick-silver give a great crack presently after it is put in it is a sign that the vessell was not hot enough This operation being well prosecuted may produce a medicine with which none under the Philosophers Elixir may compare How to distill Spirits and Oils out of Minerals Vegetables Bones Horns and faster and in a greater quantity in one hour then in the common way in twenty four This must be done in such a Furnace as this A Signifies the Furnace with its iron or earthen distilling vessell walled in to which a very large Recipient is joined B the Distiller who with his left hand taketh off the cover and with his right casteth in his prepared matter with an iron ladâ—e C the form of the distilling vessell D the same as it appeareth inward E the form of the vessell not walled in but standing on the coals for other uses This Furnace must be twice so high as wide and the pipe must be a foot long out of the Furnace The vessell walled in must be of earth for the distilling of Antimony Sulphur and such things as will corode iron but for other things iron is most convenient Before you make any distâ—llation let the vessell which is walled in be red hot then by little and little cast in your matter which must be cut or powdered small and clap down the cover into the false bottome above which is full of molten lead and therefore suffereth no fume to goe forth When you see the fumes in the Receiver which must be of glass to cease and condensed into a Liquor then put in more matter By this way you may make a far greater dispatch and distill a greater quantity out of the same proportion of matter then by the common way By this way there is no danger of breaking your Receiver and you may end and begin when you please and try divers experiments in one hour and cannot make the fire too strong and may make the spirits of such things as can hardly or not so well be made by a Retort as the spirits of Salt of Tartar Harts-horn Antimony c. Salt and such things as will flow must have a bole or powder of brick mixed with them before they be cast into the vessell or if you please you may first dissolve what salt you please and with red hot gross powder of Brick imbibe the water then cast in this powder by little and little into the distilling vessell and the Salt by this means will yeeld its spirit quickly and in aboundance By either of these two wayes you may make a pound of the spirit of Nitre in an hour and of salt in two hours Now whereas some things yeeld a spirit and a thick and heavy oil they may be rectified thus viz. by putting them into a Retort and distilling them in sand or ashes with a graduall heat there wil come forth the flegme of some Liquors first and then the spirit and of other some the spirit and then the flegm but of all these the heavy thick oil at last which by distilling off becomes far clearer then before which may again be rectified by spirit of salt as I have shewed before and therefore need not here repeat it To make an oil of Lapis Calaminaris Take of Lapis Calaminaris powdered as much as you please pour on it five or six times as much of rectified spirit of Salt shake them together continually or else it will be congealed into a hard mass which can hardly be mollified again when no more will dissolve in frigido put it in warm sand so long till the spirit of salt be of a high yellow colour then pour it off and put on more til all be dissolved that wil cast away the feces put the solution into a glass body and distill it in sand about the third part of the spirit of Salt cometh over as insipid as common water though the spirit were well rectified before for the driness of the Lapis Calaminaris which is the driest of all Minerals and Metals except Zink retaineth the spirit after the flegm is come over let the glass cool and thou shalt find at the bottome a thick red oil very fat