s Vse and Vertue It is a most excellent anodynum to appease the Tooth-ach by putting a litle Cotton dipp'd in the said Spirit of Wine to the pain'd Tooth and it is good to help the paines in the Ears by dipping in it some black Wool cut off of the Stones of a black Ram and so put into the Ear. The Aromatick tincture of Cloves PUt of whole Cloves what quantity you please into a Matrass and pour on well rectfied Spirit of Wine to the height of four fingers above your matter make a double Vessel with another small Matrass fitted to the first and well luted together place this vessel in a Sand-heat and there let it stand till the Spirit of Wine be dyed of a red-blackish colour separate by inclination this tincture and keep it in a glass Vial well stopp'd Of this tincture may be made a Syrup by putting to it a sufficient quantity of Sugar and so boyling of it to the consistence of a Syrup or you may make of the said tincture an Extract by evaporating your tincture to the consistence of an Extract The Vse and Vertues of the Tincture Syrup and Extract are to comfort and strengthen the Stomach by consuming cold superfluous humours take away the pains of the Colick it is excellent against all Faintings of the Heart and kills worms in the body The Dosis is a spoonful of the Tincture or Syrup and a Pill of the Extract or else you apply Linnen dipt in the said Tincture upon the Stomach Belly and Navel Cinnamon Water PUt four ounces of whole Cinnamon not powdered two pound of White-wine or Sack into a Glass or Stone Cucurbite place it in a Sand Furnace with a glass Head and Receiver there will be distilled a Water very clear and full of Spirits which from time to time you must take and pour out of your Receiver to the end it be not mingled with the gross flegm which will come at last of a whitish muddy colour Obs 1. That you must not distil cinnamon-Cinnamon-water in a Cucurbite of glazed Earth lest the Cinamon should whet the Spirit of Wine and make it corrode the Lead of the Vernish and so being impregnated with the Saturn alter its own vertue Obs 2. That the Water of Cinnamon is nothing but the purest part of the Wine impregnated with the Volatil Aromatick Salt of Cinamon It s Vse and Vertues It is a good Cordial fortifies the Stomach facilitates and helps the delivery of Women in Child-bed the flegm of this Water is fitter to make the Syrup of Cinnamon than common VVater by infusing in it some new Cinnamon and aftâ—r the straining dissolve in it a sufficient quantity of Sugar and so boyl it up to a Syrup This flegm contains a little Spirit of Wine in it with a little of the Volatil Salt of the first Cinnamon and so is fitter to open penetrate and extract the substance of new Cinnamon than simple common water The Spiritus Ardens or burning Spirit of Honey The sweet Tincture of Honey The stinking or faecid Oyl and Spirit of Honey The stinking Tincture of Honey PUt into a Glass or Stone or glazed Earth Cucurbit one pound of good Honey and two pound of white-wine place your Cucurbite in a Sand-Furnace and set it half way into the Sand fitting to it a glass Head and Receiver give a good Fire and continue it till all be distilled and that you hear nothing boyl in the Body then there will remain a very black thick Honey keep the distilled Liquor which will be of two sorts the first will be clear and transparent and in a small quantity and in this is the burning Spirit of-Honey and the Spirit of Wine The second will be of an Orange colour and more in quantity and contains the flegm of the Wine with the sulphureous Tincture of the Honey Take the Faeces of the said Distillation put them into a Stone Retort well luted and put to them alike quantity of River-pibble-stones calcin'd place your Retort in a Reverberatory Furnace fit to it a great glass Receiver and give your Fire from the first to the last degree for the space of some hours till there come out of the Retort neither vapour nor liquor then you will have in your Receiver a Spirit and stinking Oyl of Honey and there will yet remain some Faeces in your Retort If upon these Faeces you pour Spirit of Wine till it be four or five fingers above your matter you may have by digestion in a Matrass or double Vessel in a Sand-Furnace a foetid Tincture of Honey as red as Claret VVine The Vse and Vertues of all these Tinctures Spirits and Oyls Are to make the Hair grow stiffer and thicker upon Bald-heads The Vinegar of Saturn The Butter or Balsamum of Saturn BOyl some distilled Vinegar in a Brass or Tin Skillet or in a glaz'd Pipkin pour it out boyling hot upon Minium or Seruse or Lytharge of Gold or Silver reduc'd to powder or upon calcin'd Lead let your matter be in a glaz'd Pan and you must have so much Vinegar as may be four or five fingers deep over your matter Stir it a little with a wooden Spatula not with an Iron one for it would black both your Liquor and the Salt to be extracted out of it in an hours time your distilled Vinegar will become sweet and sugar'd and impregnated with the Salt of Saturn To make the Butter or Balsamum of Saturn melt one ounce of white Wax in a little glaz'd Pan then put to it four ounces of Oyl of Olives mingle them well with a wooden Spatula pour this mixtion immediately into a Brass Mortar and upon it a glass full of the Vinegar of Saturn stir them well together with a Brass Pestle till the Oyl and Wax be both impregnated with the Salt of Saturn contain'd in the said Vinegar and that all the Composition be thick and white as the soft Ointment of white Roses It s Vse and Vertues This Vinegar serves to appease inflammations and pains being applied outwardly to any part by Linnen dipp'd in Virgins Milk made of one spoonful of this Vinegar and a glass of Water it may also be useful in Injections in recent and fresh Gonorrhaea's to appease the violence of the pain And observe That this Vinegar pour'd upon any distill'd Water does not whiten it nor make it like Milk The Butter or Balsamum of Saturn serves to cool and appease the ardour of inflammations as well of the Stones as of the Hemorrhoides and other parts as also it produces the same effect in Erisypelases The Plaister of Saturn PUt one pound of Oyl of Olives into a vernish'd Pan add to it four ounces of well powder'd Minium or Mine-Lead and so boyl them together stirring them sometimes with an Iron Spatula till they be reduced to the consistence of a Plaister as black as Jet you may add to it a little Wax to give it a Body It s Vse and Vertues
Salt in it and therefore yields more Spirits you may learn in the Chapter of Crystal-Mineral how Niter is purified and that in its purifying it is devested of its fixt Salt Obs 4. and 5. That the Retort must be of Glass and filled up to the neck for the reasons alledged in the precedent Operation Obs 6. That the Phlegm which comes first in the distillation is in a very small quantity and cannot be separated from the Spirit by rectification because this Spirit is so Volatil that it comes of a sudden conjointly with the Phlegm and so the rectification would be unnecessary the Phlegm being in so small a proportion to the Spirit as not to be able to make the last lose any thing of its activity and energy Its Vertues and use This Spirit is Corrosive not only applyed to Warts rotten Flesh and the Gangreen but it corrodes and dissolves Mercury and the other Metals it is often to be preferr'd to Aqua fortis for these two uses or it is not so burning in its action upon the flesh as Aqua fortis and it is much fitter for the dissolutions which are made by it of Mercury and other Metals and Minerals in order to the preparing of some remedy to be taken inwardly as well because pure Niter is an acid aperitive and pure Vitriol is an acid vometive as because Niter being a Sulphureous Salt drawn from temperate Animals and Vitriol a terrestrious Salt drawn from Minerals by their union in the composition of Aqua fortis is produced a malignous quality Nay it is fitter than Aqua fortis for the dissolution of Minerals in order to make Fucuses for the face because the Spirit of Niter applyed to the skin leaves but a little yellow spot which may be easily taken away whereas Aqua fortis leaves a deep orange-spot so sticking and adhering that it can never be taken out but with the loss of the skin from whence we may infer that a Fucus prepared with Aqua fortis should rather black than whiten the skin The marks to distinguish this Spirit are these 1. That it is of the same colour and transparency as the Spirit of Salt 2. That it is very vaporous and stinking coming near the stinking smell of Aqua fortis 3. It is too corrosive and biting to be tasted upon the Tongue but to try its goodness pour out some drops upon a Brass half-peny and if it be right it will presently boil and makes the half-peny stir it produces a blew colour in the said half-peny 4. It corrodes and makes its Linen-stopple look yellow as Aqua fortis uses to do sometimes the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur are sophisticated by putting a little Spirit of Niter or a little Aqua fortis into common Water till there result an acid taste which is not caustick but you shall perceive this cheat if having rubbed a Paper with the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur in one place and the Spirit of Niter and common Water in another place you present the said Paper to the fire for then the place rubb'd with the Spirits of Vitriol and Sulphur will grow black and break and the place rubb'd with Spirit of Niter in common Water will only grow yellow and not break The Spirit and black Oyl of Vitriol TAke an Earthen-pot unglazed of the Earth they make Crucibles of fill it up to the brim with good green Vitriol set this pot upon a Salt-seller in a great Circulatory fire in two hours time or there abouts your Vitriol having first dissolved into a Liquor will be dryed deflegmated and at last coagulated into a grayish lump then take out your pot let it cool and when cold put your matter into a Brass or Iron Mortar and powder it Take a Glass Retort well luted up to half the neck fill it with the said Vitriol and place it according to Art in a great Reverberatory fire fitting to it a great Receiver Give your fire by degrees coming as soon as you can to the last which continue till you perceive in the top and sides of your Receiver a kind of black Veins that trickle down to the bottom these are the black Oyl which begins to distil Then unlute your Receiver from its Retort and separate by inclination the acid Spirit of Vitriol which hitherto has been distilled and which is of a white and transparent colour like Water and which entered your Receiver in the form of a white Vapour By this time your Vitriol will be calcin'd into a red colour and brought to be a Colcothar which yet retains its black Oyl Which to extract you must again fit the Receiver to its Retort without lute for else the neck of the Retort being exceeding hot would presently break by the approach of the cold and moist Lute continue then your fire and give it in the highest degree for the space of six or eight hours till your Receiver be cold though the fire be vehement under the Retort by that you 'll perceive that the contain'd matter has yielded all its black and thick Oyl Let your fire go out then take out your Retort which by the long violence of the fire will seem somewhat sunk and straitned and in it will remain a Colcothar devested of its phlegm its Spirit and its black Oyl but yet containing the fixed Salt of Vitriol and therefore is not so sharp and acrimonious as the first Colcothar 'T is out of this second Colcothar that you may extract the Caput mortuum of Vitriol by making a Lexivium of the said Colcothar to extract it s fixed Salt Out of one pound of green Vitriol you 'll have nine or ten ounces of Spirit with its Phlegm and half an ounce of black Oyl The acid Spirit of Vitriol contains much Phlegm which came first with it therefore if you desire to have a purified Spirit you must evaporate the Phlegm by putting this Spirit Inflegmated into a Matrass not luted which set upon a Salt-seller in a small Circulatory fire till the whole substance be half diminished and begin to look a little yellowish if you continue this Evaporation any longer your Spirit will become blackish drawing near the colour and acidity of your Oyl of Colcothar If reciprocally with the said black Oyl of Colcothar you desire to make a white acid Spirit do but mingle in a Matrass one dragm of the said Oyl with an ounce of common water then you shall see that the said Oyl will presently go to the bottom and will so heat the neck of the Matrass that you will scarce be able to hold it in your hand Mingle them well by agitation till the water grow blackish then through Paper filtrate the said liquor and there will come a clear acid Spirit as yellow as Gold which will have the same force and virtue as the common Spirit of Vitriol the Paper retaining the black and thick faeces From whence we may conclude that this clear Liquor which we call
Tongs put the head of it into this Brimstone which is in the sand presently the Brimstone will be in a flame therefore have ready a Glass-Bell well proportioned to the bigness of your Pan and with it cover your Pan as soon as the Brimstone begins to take fire and that you may lose nothing of the Vapour stop with Linen the junction of the Bell and Pan from this inflamed Sulphur will rise an abundance of white Vapours which will be converted part of them into acid Spirits which being received in the Pan impregnate the Water and part of them into yellow Flowers of Sulphur which will be found sticking to the sides of the Bell and Pan and will form a little skin upon the superflicies of the Water After a quarter of an hour the Vapours being ceased and condensed into Spirits and Flowers break that skin that the Water may be at liberty to re-impregnate it self with new Spirits at a second flagration then put another spoonful of Sulphur inflame it cover it and in a word do as before continuing this till all your Brimstone be spent When you have done there remains a muddy acid Water into which put all those Flowers of Brimstone which you find sticking to the sides of your Pan or Bell as likewise those that swim upon the Water put them all together into a Matrass of an ordinary size not luted which set upon a Salt-seller in the little Circulatory fire the Phlegm will be evaporated the Flowers will dissolve into the Spirit and the Spirit will wax black then with a wet clout take out your Retort and pour out your Liquor thus hot into a white Earthen Bason The Spirit being cool you 'll find in the bottom the Flowers congealed into a bright yellow lump By this method in one day out of four pound of Sulphur you may draw half an ounce of black Oyl and if you put an ounce of Water upon one dram of this Oyl mingling them well in a Matrass and then filtring them through a course Paper you may have that which is called the Spirit or Acid of Brimstone of a yellow bright transparent colour like Gold Or by another way do but evaporate the two thirds of your pound of Water impregnated with the Spirit of Brimstone and there will remain four ounces of a yellow inflegmated Spirit Obs 1. That we put sand into the little Earthen Cup lest the Brimstone inflamed should break it which it would do were it empty Obs 2. That Water is put into the Pan that the Spirits may be the better gathered without which they would be apt to be consumed to no purpose in the superficies and substance of the said Earthen Pan. Obs 3. That the Matrass in which the Evaporation is performed must be short-neck'd that the phlegm may the easilier evaporate therefore let it be two inches high Obs 4. That we pour the said Spirit hot into a white Basin and not into a glazed one lest it should corrode the Lead of the Vernish and so be weakned and loaden with a blackness which no filtration would be able to take away and the reason why we pour out the Liquor hot is because if we did let it cool the Brimstone would congeal into such a lump as could never be come by without breaking the Matrass Obs 5. That if by this method there is but little Spirit drawn from such a quantity of Sulphur yet by all the other processes you meet with in Authors you shall draw less It s virtue and use It cools and purifies the Blood resists Corruption appeases the Burning Feavers 'T is a very good preservative against the Plague taking three or four drops of it in a glass of water ever morning It is most excellent to touch Venereal Ulcers and Warts it dissolves Pearls and Corral It fixes Mercury but cannot dissolve him no more than the other Metals The Marks by which it is distinguished are the same by which Spirit of Vitriol is known from other Spirits but all the difficulty is to distinguish Spirit of Vitriol from Spirit of Sulphur Spirit of Wine TAke as much good Aqua vitae as will fill your Vesica or Copper body half full set it in a naked Circulatory fire fit to it its cover or Moors-head bordered with its Refrigeratory having before hand put into the Vesica's long neck five or six sponges held up by two sticks set a-cross and kept from falling down or rising up Then to the Moors-head Nose fit the moveable Pipe which shall join it with the long Brass Pipe that goes through the two Hogs-heads of water then starch on long slices of Paper upon all the conjunctions of the Pipes and over the Paper put cloth-ones which bind fast with pack-thread fit your Receiver of glass to the lower end of the long Brass Pipe that goes through the Hogs-heads set your Coals on fire and add some wood to them to make at first a great fire which may raise and distil your Spirit quickly In a very little time it will come not by drops but in a small stream like a Fountain In all the course of this Operation there must be singular care taken that the distillation be equal and moderate so that as soon as you perceive white vapours in the Recipient diminish your fire either by throwing ashes on it or taking a good deal of it away For these white Vapours are the Spirits which come in such an abundance that they have not had time to condense neither in the Moors-head nor in the long Pipe and therefore will easily scape out of your Receiver and so the best of your Spirit will be lost to no purpose besides whensoever the Distillation is performed in too big a stream though there be no Vapours yet diminish your fire But if it should come drop by drop then augment the heat you may take notice that the first quart that comes though excellent and pure yet it is not clear but muddy having contracted a foulness from the sides of the Vessel therefore throw it in again with a Tunnel by the little Pipe which on purpose is in the top of the Vesica and presently stop the said Pipe close with its Woodden stopper the Spirit that shall from henceforth be distilled will be clear and transparent By this method out of thirty quarts of good Aqua vitae you may draw eighteen quarts of good Spirit of Wine in a day and in one only Vesica You must observe often all along your Operation whether your Spirit be well deflegmated which try thus Put as much Gunpowder as you can take up with your two fore-fingers and your thumb into a little spoon which fill with Spirit of Wine then fire it with a Match or lighted Paper for if this Spirit take fire and burn blew till it be consumed and then fire the Gunpowder and that at last there be no mark of any moistness left in the spoon you may be sure your
with some Unguent as the Diapompholixa with Hogs grease reducing it to the consistence of a Plaister Out of it also is drawn the Salt of Saturn instead of Lytharge Ceruse or Minium The sweet Chrystals of Saturn the sweet Salt of Saturn not Crystallized The Oyl of Saturn the Magistery or Precipitate of Saturn PUt as much distill'd Vinegar as you please into a glazed earthen Pan set it upon a trefoot making under a Fire of Coals and dry Wood till it begin to simper and boyl slightly then put into it by little and little as much as you please of Lytharge of Gold or of Silver powder'd stirring it continually with a wooden Spatula after it has boyled a little take off your Pan and let your Vinegar which is impregnated with the Lytharge settle a while then pour off the said Vinegar while it is warm this done pour more Vinegar upon the Lytharge left in the Pan boyl it stir it separate it and then put more doing so till all the Lytharge be gone then filtrate your Dissolutions while they are warm through a Coffin of brown Paper over a glass Cucurbit which set in a Sand-fire up to the neck in the Sand and evaporate all your Filtrations till they become as red as Bloud and are covered with a little skin or Pellicule then pour them out into little white Dishes and there let them cool when they are cold you shall see that a great part of the Liquor is congealed into Crystals or white Christalline Needles as sweet as Sugar to the taste and as thin as the Needles of Male Antimony then gently pour out of these same Dishes a red Oyl with a Sugar of Saturn left in the bottom un-crystallized then take out your Crystals and keep them in a glass Viol well stopped with Cork else they will fall into a Calx and in another Viol keep the said Oyl of Saturn whâ—â—h is nothing but the tincture of Saturn drawn by the Vinegar If by chance in evaporating your Dissolutions you were gone beyond the Pellicule so as your matter begins to look thick and glutinous then there would be no crystallizing of it and therefore evaporate it to a driness to make the Salt of Saturn not crystallized or make the Magisterie of Saturn Which is made thus Take the said red glutinous Oyl of Saturn or the Dissolution of Saturn evaporated to the Pellicule and pour on three or four ounces of either of them three or four spoonfuls of Spirit of Sulphur which presently will cause the Dissolution of Suturn to curdle into white Curds which by little and little will precipitate to the bottom into a white powder This done pour on common water to take away the acidity both of the Vinegar and Spirit of Sulphur but pour on Water but once else all your powder would be spent in a second Water because this powder of Saturn being half calcin'd is made dissolvable in Water by that little Vinegar which remains incorporated with it separate by Inclination this first Water and filtrate the rest through a Coffin of white Paper or make Trochisks of it through a glass Tunnel as has been taught in the Chapter of the Diaphoretick Antimony Obs 1. That you must take a glazed earthen Pan not a Stone or Glass one because there is no fear the Vinegar should corrode the Lead of the Vernish for having been baked in an Oven it sticks so fast to the earth that the Vinegar cannot corrode it neither if it did were it amiss since it is here used but for Saturn a stone one would be unfit for it would fly and break and that happens to all vessels of this Ware except to Retorts for there the fire circulating equally on all sides hinders its breaking which is not the like case in Pans for there the bottom only being heated and the rest cold they easily break because of their great driness For they are made of one part of a stone powder'd which is as dry and as brittle as Glass and of one part of lean earth which is not unctuous at all a Brass Basin would not be proper for the distilled Vinegar would spend its force in extracting the Salt of the Verdigreece which mingled with that of Saturn would make it look green Ob. 2. That in this Operation we make use of Lytharge rather than of Ceruse or Minium because the Lytharge having passed the fire of Coppel is a more Spongeous open body and therefore more penetrable by the distilled Vinegar and so will yield a greater quantity of Salt and Ceruce which has a closer body because it has been opened only by distilled Vinegar which extracts the Ceruse from the Lead and for the Minium though it be Ceruse made red in a Reverberatory fire yet its body is not so open as the body of Lytharge because it is so re-united that it is almost recondensed into its Metallick nature Obs 3. That before we put the Lytharge into the Vinegar we make the said Vinegar boil a little to the end it may the easilier penetrate and dissolve so much of the Saturn as it can load it self withal and we let the said Lytharge boyl but a little time because no more is required for the Vinegar to impregnate it self with Saturn and if it should stand any longer on the fire the evaporation would be begun which ought not to be till all your dissolutions are together Obs 4. That we use here distilled Vinegar for a dissolvant because it is not necessary to have a more powerful corrosive to dissolve Lead which is a soft penetrable Metal yet simple Vinegar would not be so fit as the distilled as well because it is not so penetrating as because it is not separated from its flegm besides if it were red it might spoil the white colour of your Crystals or Magisterie Obs 5. That all your Lytharge is dissolved at last by reiterated additions of Vinegar because that Lytharge is all Lead and if there should remain any part of it un-dissolved it would be because you have not poured Vinegar enough on Obs 6. That you must stir with a Wooden patule this dissolution of Saturn and not with an iron one because the iron would black it whereas your design is to preserve the whiteness of the Salt which you are to draw from it and iron blacks as well by its self as by its Vitriol Obs 7. That all your dissolutions being put together you must evaporate them to the consumption of three parts and till there appear a saltish skin or Pellicule upon the surface of the Liquor else they would not congeal into Crystals when cold For having too much flegm that salt Spirit of the Vinegar which hath dissolved Saturn remains dissolved its self in the flegm but when by a gentle ebullition and evaporation of the said flegm the Salt Spirit remains alone then it Chrystalises easily in a cold place since it begins to do it already in a hot
Vse and Vertues It is a most excellent Anodinum and Ripener for the wounds of the nervous parts and is very good for pains in the ears by putting some drops of it into them The Essence of Musk and Ambergreece drawn by Spirit of Wine PUt into a small Matrass one dragm of Ambergreece and half a dragm of Musk well powder'd before hand pour upon them five ounces of Spirit of Wine seal up your Matrass hermetically and put it into a little earthen Pan full of Sand up to half the belly set it in the Sun for forty days in the hottest time of the year from eight of the clock in the morning till seven at night keeping behind your Matrass a Tin Leaf to receive the Sun-beams and reverberate them upon the glass The Musk and Ambergreece will be almost quite dissolved in the Spirit of Wine and will dye it of a red colour like a Ruby break the neck of your Glass and pour out your Essence into a glass Vial well stopp'd and waxed and above the stopple put a piece of an oyled bladder Obs 1. That Ambergreece being a kind of Bitumen and Musk being of an oyly nature they may easily be dissolved in Spirit of Wine and communicate to it their Tincture It s Vse and Vertues One drop of this Essence perfumes for ever whatsoever it touches that can imbibe it and is much more pleasant with a double quantity of Ambergreece than with equal parts of Musk and Ambergreece because the odour of the Ambergreece is sweeter and that of the Must stronger The Tincture of Tartar or Spirit of Wine clarified TAke as much as you please of Tartar calcin'd to whiteness properly called Salt of Tartar or of Ashes made of burnt Lees of Wine call'd Gravell'd Ashes put either of them into a Crucible or unglaz'd stone Pot place it in a Wind-Furnace till your matter be blew like Vitriol of Cyprus which may be done in an hours time take off your Pot and with a brass Spoon take out your matter and powder it while it is hot in a brass Mortar and then put it into a Matrass which you must stir and shake in your hand to the end the heat of the matter may extend its self equally to all the parts of the Glass and not break one by over-heating it Let your Matrass have two parts empty pour into your matter Spirit of Wine till your Glass be half full place this Vessel in a Sand-Furnace giving an ordinary Fire according to Art let it stand till the Spirit of Wine become as red as a Ruby then pour off by inclination this Tincture pour on more Spirit upon the Faeces and reiterate this as long as the Faeces will yield any Tincture there will remain a good quantity of the said Faeces which you may re-calcine and use as other Salt of Tartar keep your Tincture Observe That Tartar being a sulphureous and inflameable Salt may take the colour of blew and communicate a red Tincture to the Spirit of Wine It s Vse and Vertues It is the most powerful and penetrating Desopilative that is it produces its effect strongly and gently so that for the obstructions of the Spleen the Pancreas the Mesentery and the Mesaraick Veins there is not the like remedy amongst Chymists nor Galenists for by the Spirit of Wine it dissolves all the most tenacious Viscosities in the little Veins and pores of the Belly and by the Salt of Tartar it carries away all the impurities of the said parts so that no Soap can cleanse more than this Tincture It s use is to be dissolved from ten to thirty drops in some Broth or appropriated Water to take every morning fasting for some days The Spirit and foetid Oyl of Tartar TAke a glass Retort luted up to half its neck if you do make but a little of this Remedy or if you make a great deal take a Stone one fill it up to the neck with good Tartar of Montpellier either red or white beaten to a fine powder place your Retort upon a Pot-cover full of Ashes in the small reverberatory Furnace if you use but two or three pounds or in an Earthen Bowl in a great circulatory Fire if you use but half a pound fit a Receiver and give your Fire by degrees there will soon come forth a white dark vapour which will continue all the time of the Operation the Flegm comes first then the Tartar takes fire in the Retort and is in a flame and from the smoak of this flame come the Spirit and Oyl Continue your fire till there come no more out of the Retort and till your Receiver be clear and cold though the Fire be violent under the Retort out of one pound of Tartar you will draw about ten ounces of Spirit with its Flegm and two ounces of Oyl in the Retort will remain four ounces of a black Salt which you must dissolve in Water then filtrate and coagulate to use as the true Salt of Tartar being entirely devested of its Flegm Spirit and Oyl and so being a pure Salt for the Tartar contains but very little Faeces or Earth Observe That in this Operation we perceive that Tartar is a very sulphureous Salt since it takes fire in the Retort and there comes from it a blackish Oyl stinking and inflameable and that the Faeces do remain black and burnt in the Retort It s Vse and Vertues This Oyl is indifferently stinking and caustick it serves for Ring-worms and exfoliation of Bones or for Farsey in Horses the Spirit is acid when rectified and is good against the Stone and Gravel The Spirit and Aromatick Oyl of Juniper Berries Put fresh Juniper Berries into a Brass Vesica till it be half full fill one third more of the Vesica with common cold water let them infuse twenty four hours in the Vesica with a gentle fire to extract afterwards the better the oyly Essence of your Berries having all this while stopt the mouth of your Vesica with a Linnen-cloth take out this cloth and fit to your Brass body its Mores-head border'd with a refrigeratory and a moveable Pipe and do as has been taught in the distillation of the waters of Plants that which will first come will be the Aromatick Balsamick Essence or Oyl of Juniper Bays together with a little flegm or inflegmated Spirit and then the rest of the flegm will follow Out of a peck of Berries you will not have above two ounces of Essence or Oyl all the rest will be flegm or Spirit inflegmatized Obs 1. That because we can draw but a very small quantity of Oyl or Essence not only out of Juniper Berries but also out of all Balsamick and Aromatick Leaves Flowers Rinds Barks Roots Woods Berries and Seeds therefore we have found the way of using Spirit of Turpentine separated by three or four Rectifications from its red Oyl putting three or four ounces upon every peck of Berries to the end that being incorporated
Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression till your pot be full then encrease your fire stirring your matter from time to time with a stick which you must not put to the bottom till all be melted then take off your pot and when it is cold break it you will find in the bottom the Regulus and the Faeces on the top Of it is made Vinum Emeticum everlasting Pills and Cups and the Diaphoretick its Faeces serves to make the Golden Sulphur Diaphoretick Of the Liver of Antimony of which is made the Crocus Metallorum MIngle one pound of Male or Female Antimony with half a pound of common Niter powdered put them by spoonfuls into a Crucible or pot of the same Earth heated red-hot in a Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression covering your pot at each spoonful then encrease your fire and stir incessantly your matter with a stick till it be in Fusion take off your pot and pour into a Mortar the melted Liquor retaining the Faeces from going in with it your matter being cold is called Liver of Antimony and being powdered is called The Saffron of Metals or Crocus Metallorum Of it is made the Vinum Emeticum The Dose is one ounce in a pint of VVine of which take one or two ounces inwardly and four or five ounces in a Clyster The Spirit and Oyl of Guaiacum FIll up to the neck a great earthen Retort well luted with shavings or little pieces of the VVood of Guiacum place it in a small Reverberatory Furnace fitting to it a stone Receiver or a glass one and covering your Furnace with an earthen Pan that has a hole in the bottom then by a moderate heat of twelve sixteen or twenty hours you will have the Spirit and Oyl together which separate either by a glass Tunnel or by a coffin of brown Paper wet with ordinary VVater Of the Ashes or Coals re-calcin'd you may make a Lixivium and extract the Salt This Oyl is good for old Ulcers for the Gangrene and Rot and two or three drops in Cinnamon-water is good for the Colick the Spirit is good for Burnings Ulcers and for the Pox in a Decoction of Guaiacum Crystal Mineral THrow fine Niter powdered into a Pot set in a Furnace of a Circulary Fire and Suppression and let it be quite full at first being melted throw into it four or five times at each time a spoonful of powder'd Brimstone then pour out by little and little your melted Niter into a Brass Kettle shaking the Kettle and dipping it into cold Water dissolve your Niter thus prepar'd in warm Water filter it through a brown Paper and evaporate it to a Pellicule then setting it cool you will have fair Crystals which are the true Crystal Mineral or Sal Prunellae It cools opens and resists Corruption taken inwardly from a scruple to a dragm and in a Clyster from a dragm to half an ounce The Spirit and Oyl of Box ARe made as the Spirit and Oyl of Guaiacum only this Wood yields much Spirit but little Oyl the Oyl is good for the putrefaction and pain of the Teeth for Contusions and Ulcers Of the Regulus of Mars POwder and mingle two pounds of Male Antimony with one pound of Tartar and one of common Niter six ounces of filings of Steel and two ounces of powder'd Charcoal It is made as the Regulus of Antimony and there results of it a Regulus containing seven ounces of Antimony with the six ounces of filings It purges by stool and vomit in powder or in vessel with Wine and serves to make an excellent Diaphoretick which never provokes vomit The Spirit of Salt TAke one part of common Salt and five of Potters Earth dried and powdered fill with it a glass Retort well luted place it in a Furnace of a great Reverberatory Fire give the fire by degrees and continue the last degree for twenty hours It s vertue is Diuretick it drives away Gravel and breaks little britle Stones whitens the Teeth and preserves from the Plague and all Corruption Of the Red Precipitate of Mercury PUt four ounces of Mercury and six ounces of Aqua fortis in a Matrass of glass luted up to half its Body place it in a Furnace of a moderate Circulary Fire till the Aqua fortis be evaporated then give a Fire of Suppression till there rise a yellow vapour upon the brim of the Matrass then take it off and when cold break your Vessel and you will find in the bottom a Red Precipitate of an Orange colour Of Spirit of Niter PUt one part of fine Niter to four parts of dried Potters-Earth fill a glass Retort well luted then distil it in a great Reverberatory Fire and have a care of its vapours in distilling it It s Vse and Vertues Are to dissolve Mercury Camphire and Metals and is better for interior Remedies than Aqua fortis Of Turbith Mineral PUt two ounces of Mercury and three ounces of Spirit of Niter into a glass Retort luted up to half its neck place it in a Furnace of a Circulary fire giving a gentle fire till the Mercury be dissolved and dried then take off your vessel and let it cool then pour upon it one ounce of Oyl or Spirit of Sulphur and evaporate it by the same fire reiterating this three or four times then burn upon it Spirit of Wine break your Vessel and you will have a white lump which powder and wash in warm Water till the Water come away insipid Dry this matter in a Sand-fire and burn upon it Spirit of Wine three or four times it will make your Mercury as yellow as Gold then give it a melting fire which it will endure very well without losing any thing because of the fixedness it has acquired by the Spirit of Sulphur Of the white Precipitate PUt eight ounces of Mercury and one pound of Aqua fortis into an ample glass Retort with a long neck shake your vessel and heat it a little upon warm Ashes till your Mercury be dissolved then pour your Dissolution into a glass Bell and pour upon it a quart of sea-Sea-water to precipitate your Mercury separate your Sea-water and sweeten your Precipitate with common Water then dry it in a coffin of white Paper It is used with Pomatum to rub Ring-worms withall It s internal Use is To purge in the Pox from three to eight grains Of the golden Diaphoretick Sulphur BOyl in common Water in a Kettle the Faeces of Regule of Antimony or Regule of Mars filter their Lixivium through a brown Paper pour two or three spoonfuls of Vinegar or of some acid Spirit upon all this Lixivium it will curdle grow yellow and stink then pouring Water upon it precipitate your Tincture thus curdled into a powder of the colour of Saffron which you must edulcorate or sweeten to take away the ill smell then dry it in a coffin of Paper It s Vse is to provoke the Monthly Courses from eight to twelve
full of the said Vinegar of Saturn stir it till it be in a consistence of Butter or Balsamum The Use of this Balsam is To cool and asswage pain and extinguish Inflammations to dissipate and ease the Hemorrhoids The Use of the Vinegar of Saturn being dissolved in a small quantity in Water is To appease Inflammations and to serve for Injection in Gonorrhaea's being mingled with a little Water of Barley Of the Oyl of Bricks or the Philosophers Oyl PUt five parts of powdered Bricks and one part of Oyl of Olives into a glass Retort luted and bigger than needs for so much matter place it in a Circulary Fire which by little and little you must bring to the highest degree or Fire of Suppression the Flegm will come first then a stinking thick red Oyl which being rectified will become yellow clearer and less stinking The Use of this Oyl is For Contusions the Sciatica and cold Defluxions The Oyl of yellow Wax POur one part of yellow Wax melted upon five parts of powder'd Bricks make with it little Balls and with them fill a glass Retort luted up to the neck give the same Fire as in the Oyl of Bricks the Flegm will come first then a red stinking Oyl which will congeal into a yellow Butter which being rectified will become clear and white and less stinking The Use of it is the same as of the Oyl of Bricks Of the Extract of Hellebore PUt half a pound of the Roots of black Hellebore and upon it as much Spirit of Wine as will cover it three fingers high into a double Matrass draw the Tincture in a Sand-fire for three or four days evaporate the said Tincture in a glass Cucurbite in a Sand-fire to a consistence of Honey The Use is To purge Melancholy it causes Loathing and Vomiting The Dose is from ten grains to a scruple Of Aqua fortis PUt into a glass Retort common Niter undeflegmated Vitriol in powder and leaving third part of your Vessel empty distil them in a Fire of Reverberation or Suppression giving it by degrees A little Flegm will come first then the Spirit in red vapours The Use is To dissolve Minerals and Metals and to give force and penetration to Dyings or Tinctures Of the Infernal Stone PUt two parts of Aqua fortis to one part of Coppel Silver cut into little pieces in a small Matrass half luted evaporate the Aqua fortis in a Circulary Fire till your matter be dry with a black scum upon it then give a melting fire till there rise no more vapours then take off your Matrass and let your matter cool or else pour it into little moulds The Use is To consume Warts and proud Flesh to cure Cancres the Ulcers of the Mouth and the Gangrene by touching them with this Stone Of the burning Spirit of Honey PUt one pound of Honey and a pint of White Wine into a glass Cucurbite or an earthen one distil them in a Sand-fire till you hear that it boyls no longer and that there remains nothing but a black Honey in the bottom The Use is To dye the Beard and Hair Of the Arcanum Corallinum POur warm Water upon the Red Precipitate of Mercury till at last your Water come away insipid then pour upon it Spirit of Salt in a glass Cucurbite dry it in a Sand-fire that will fix the Mercury then sweeten with cold Water the said Mercury fixed till the Water come away insipid then reverberate it in a Crucible it will become as red as Coral then burn upon it Spirit of VVine two or three times The Use of it is To purge and provoke vomiting gently and cure the Pox. The Dose is from three to six grains Cinnamon-Water PUt four ounces of Cinnamon and a quart of White Wine into a glass or stone Cucurbite fit to it a Head and Receiver of Glass distil them in a Sand-fire there will come at first a clear Water and toward the end a whitish muddy one The Use of the first Water is To fortifie the Stomach and comfort the Heart and to facilitate and further the delivery of Women in Child-bed The second Water may serve in the confection of the Syrup of Cinnamon by infusing the Cinnamon before you dissolve your Sugar in it Of the sweet Sublimate TAke of Corrosive Sublimate and Quicksilver of each a like quantity powder your Sublimate in a white Dish with a Pestle of VVhite-ware stopping your nose close then add to it the Quicksilver and when they are half incorporated together add a little distilled Vinegar to make a wet powder put this mixtion into an unluted Matrass with a straight neck place it in a Circulary Fire after the evaporation of the Vinegar stop the Matrass with a Paper stopple continue your fire till your matter be elevated from the bottom of the Matrass take off your Matrass break it and take out the Sublimate which cleanse every where powder it and put it into a greater Matrass half luted to be sublim'd a second time in the same fire which you must encrease towards the end of the Operation till there remain little or nothing in the bottom of the Matrass Take off your Matrass and break it and keep this Sublimate in a glass Vessel well stop'd It s Use is To purge gently from twenty to forty grains it fluxes in four or five Doses one after another Of the Salt of Saturn PUt as much distilled Vinegar as you please into a glaz'd Pan which set upon a Trevet over a fire of Wood and Coals and add to it as much as you please of powder'd Lytharge stirring it with a wooden Spatula then after it has boyled a little let it cool pour off the distilled Vinegar impregnated and pour on more reiterate the boyling till there remain no Lytharge filter your Dissolutions and evaporate them in a Sand-fire in a glass Cucurbite till your matter become as red as Blood then put it into VVhite-VVare Dishes to congeal into white Crystals as sweet as Sugar and there will remain a red Oyl sweet also which has the same vertue as the Salt It is a Collyrium for the Eyes in Ophthalmies it is good to inject in Gonorrhaea's and it is excellent for redness of the Face or Erysipelases in VVater or Vnguentum Rosatum Of the Diaphoretick Antimony TAke one pound of Mineral Antimony or the Regule of Antimony or Mars four pound of fine Niter powder them and mingle them together and put them in fâ—agration and fusion by spoonfuls in a great Pot of the Crucible Earth heated red-hot in a fire of Suppression covering at each time the Pot continue the fire till the vapours cease then take it off and with a Lattin Ladle pour out the matter gently into an earthen pan full of VVater bruise between your hands the matter thus quenched Pour off the white milky Dissolution within 2 or 3 hours pour off the VVater of that which is precipitated to the bottom and sweeten
it till your water come away insipid then filter your Magistery and dry it in the shade The Use of it is That it is a powerful Diuretick and Diaphoretick against Venereal Diseases the Small Pox and all long Distempers The Dose is from ten to twenty grains and more Boyl four ounces of Venice Turpentine into the consistence of Colophone in a kettle full of Water and mingle with it while it is warm an ounce of Diaphoretick Antimony half an ounce of Niter sulphurated and as much Cream of Tartar form of it Pills which will be excellent for old Gonorrhaea's Of the binding Saffron of Mars PUt two parts of filings of Steel and one part of powder'd Brimstone all at once into a Crucible heated red-hot in a fire of Suppression till the Brimstone be consumed and an hour after take off your Crucible and powder presently your matter spread this powder that is now of the colour of Violets upon Tiles and it will become brown It is good in bloody and Hepatick Fluxes in the weight of a dragm It augments the binding vertue of Plasters The opening Saffron of Mars SPrinkle the binding Saffron of Mars in a stone pan with Spirit of Vitriol or Brimstone two fingers above the matter which in two or three days will be a kind of paste with which fill a large Crucible and set it in a Reverberatory Fire for eight hours then powder it while warm and searce it The Vse This Saffron is good against the Yellow Jaundice it provokes the Monthly Courses and opens the Spleen from half a dragm to two Of the Spirit of Sulphur PLace a stone Cup half full of Sand upon a little Pot placed in the middle of a great earthen Pan a quarter full of Water put into it a spoonful of powder'd Brimstone and with a red Cart-nail set it on fire put presently a glass Bell over the Pan the Brimstone will burn the Spirit will impregnate the Water and the Flowers will produce a little skin reiterate all that till you have thus consumed four pound of Brimstone then mingle your Flowers and your impregnated Water in a Matrass with a short neck and evaporate in a Circulary Fire the Flegm till your Brimstone be dissolved and that your Spirit grows black pour it all into a stone or White-ware Vessel while it is warm the Brimstone will be congealed in the bottom and you shall have half an ounce of black Oyl or Spirit of Brimstone It cools purifies the Blood preserves from the Plague fixes Mercury dissolves Pearls and Coral and cures Cancers and Warts Of the Spirit of Vitriol and Oyl of Colcothar FIll a glass Retort throughly luted with green Vitriol calcin'd to a grey colour in a great Crucible in a Circulary Fire and of Suppression place it in a Furnace of great Reverberation till there appear black spots upon the Receiver then pour off your Spirit of Vitriol which is as clear as Water encrease your fire you shall have a black Oyl very acid and there will remain a Colcothar in the Retort The Use of both is To cool and resist Corruption against all Distempers of the Liver Kidneys against burning and pestilential Feavers it serves also to dissolve Pearls Coral Crabs Eyes Egg-shells c. but it is not strong enough to dissolve Metals Of the Oyl of Myrrha FIll with Myrrha in pieces a glass Retort luted place it in a Circulary Fire fitting to it a great Receiver there will come out a Flegm and an Oyl both together separate them one from another with a glass Tunnel The Use of the Oyl is Against Fits of the Mother by smelling to it it cleanses and ripens Wounds being mingled with the Digestivum and hinders the Gangrene being mingled with the Egyptiacum Of Cauteries SLack half a pound of Quick-lime in a stone Pan by pouring Water upon it by little and little till it become like pap in the mean time heat in a Crucible in a Fire of Suppression two pounds of gravell'd Ashes and throw them hot into the said pap then pour upon it sufficient quantity of Water to dissolve your Salts after twelve hours infusing pour your Lixivium into a brass Basin and evaporate it till it be dry and thus as it is you may use it as people do other Cauteries If you melt this matter you may mould Cauteries upon a Marble The Use is To cauterize when they are moulded they are dryer and must be well wet before their application Of the Red acid oyl of Antimony POwder and mingle fine Niter Brimstone and Antimony of each a pound set fire to your matters by little and little in an earthen pan under a glass Bell as you do the Spirit of Brimstone then evaporate it in a Matrass of a short neck till your Brimstone be melted and your Niter exhaled and that your Oyl appears red and thick taking care that your matter in boyling do not run over pour all your matter into a little stone pot or of White-ware and when it is cold it will congeal into a fair reddish Sulphur The Use of the Oyl is To cure by touching the Ulcers and Cancres of the Pox it purges without provoking vomit from eight to eighteen drops Of Besoard Mineral MElt some butter of Antimony and pour it into a glass Bell and add to it drop by drop and at divers times Spirit of Niter in equal quantity for fear of too great an ebullition when the smoak and boyling cease pour to it a pint of Sea-water filtred and cold there will be produced a white Precipitate after twelve hours pour off this Water sweeten your Precipitate with common Water then filter the remainder through a coffin of Paper and keep your powder well stop'd It s Use is To be an excellent Sudorifick for malignant Feavers and the Pox. The Precipitate of Bismuth PUt four ounces of powder'd Bismuth into a glass Bell and pour upon it by little and little eight ounces of Spirit of Niter having a care of too great an ebullition and of the venomous vapours of the said Spirit The ebullition being ceas'd and the dissolution perform'd and cold it will crystallize Pour upon it sea-Sea-water to precipitate the Magistery pour off your sea-Sea-water and pour on common Water to sweeten it filter the remainder through a Paper coffin and let it dry in the shade The Use is To dry Ulcers and to be a Fucus being mingled with Pomatum The spirit and oyl of Turpentine FIll a glass Retort luted with the waterish Spirit of Turpentine with its Oyl distil it in a Circulary Fire till three parts of four come away which will be the Spirit and there will remain in the Retort a thick red Oyl rectifie your Spirit so often till there remain no Oyl in it The Oyl is a good Anodynum for wounds of the nervous parts the Spirit is a good Diuretick dissolves Gums extracts Tinctures of Aromatick Plants and serves to make the Balsam of Sulphur Of the sulphurated Niter call'd Sal Antifebrile or the salt against Feavers TAke four ounces of Brimstone or its Flowers and mingle them with eight ounces of fine Niter fire this mixtion by degrees in an earthen Cup set in a stone Pan in which is a quart of Spirit of Urine covering the pot with a Bell then take the Faeces of the calcin'd Brimstone and powder them and mingle them with the Spirit of Urine impregnated with the Spirits of Niter and Sulphur let them infuse twelve hours in this stone Pot till they be dissolved filter the Dissolution and evaporate it in a short necked Matrass in a Circulary Fire till it come to a white scum then diminish the Fire and evaporate it till it cease boyling and have a care that the too much boyling do not break your Vessel pour this matter while warm into a White-ware Dish and it will congeal like Crystal Mineral To mould it you must melt it and then pour it into a Vial or melt in the Vial and then break your Vial by cold Water and take away all the Glass with the point of a Knife The Use 'T is a powerful Diuretick and cooler it resists Corruption it drives Gravel cures Feavers softens Metals The Dose is from twenty to thirty Grains FINIS
fourth 4. When you have augmented the fire by degrees and are come to the last which you maintain the space of some hours as it is done in the distillation of the black Oyl of Vitriol or Colcothar The Spirit of Salt TAke a quantity of Potters-Earth cut it into slices of the length breadth and thickness of a finger and set them in order upon a Grid-iron which you shall set upon red Coals in a hot Oven after the bread is drawn when they are dry on one side turn them on the other then take them out and powder them in a Mortar and keep this Earth thus dried and powdered as well for this Operation as for divers others Mingle five parts of this Earth thus prepared with one part of common Salt beaten to powder but not decrepitated with this matter fill a Glass-Retort of an ordinary size which must be luted up to half the neck set it in a close Reverberatory and fit it to a large and capacious Glass-Receiver Give your fire by degrees coming as soon as you can to the last degree which continue twenty four hours or till your Recipient seem cold though the Retort be violently hot from whence you may infer that your matter hath sent out all its Spirits out of one pound of Salt by this method you 'll draw nine or ten ounces of Spirits Observe 1. This Earth is given to the Salt as an intermedium to hinder its fusion for Salt melts in a great fire and being once melted becomes so fix as there is no raising of its Spirits to distil them Observe 2. That we rather make use of a Glass than of an Earthen Retort because the Spirits of Salt being very acid and something corrosive might so penetrate the Earth of the Retort as to lose something of their virtue and dull their activity therefore you must also keep your Spirit of Salt in Glass not in Earthen Vessels Observe 3. That the Salt must not be decrepitated that is separated from its Phlegm nor the Clay absolutely dried or heat red in the fire for it is necessary that there should remain some watrish humidity in both to the end that this phlegm coming first in distillation may help the acid Spirits and be as a Vehicle to them otherwise were your fire never so violent if there were no Phlegm you would never obtain any acid Spirits Observe 4. That your Retort must be filled up to the neck because the Spirits in their first rising and separating themselves from their grosser parts would if there were any Vacuum presently re-impregnate themselves and be so fix'd as that no power of fire would be able to raise them again and make them Volatil whereas the Vapours raised meeting with no empty room in the Retort are not able to condense there but by the fire are forced into the Recipient into which they enter in form of a white Vapour which by little and little cools and condenses and at last dissolves into a Liquor white and clear as water Observe 5. That that Phlegm which first comes is little in quantity and if you will have your Spirit strong and pure you may deflegmate and rectifie it in a sand-heat It s vertue and use is It resists all corruption taken interiourly and outwardly applied and for this reason in venomous and malign Feavers we mingle three or four drops of it with a Cordial Julip and for a preservation against the Plague we put a spoonful of it into a quart of Oxycrate and so rub the body all over before a good fire It whitens the Teeth admirably being mingled with a little Water or some syrup it 's a powerful diuretick against suppressions of Urine caused by the oppilation of the conducts thorow which it should pass it drives the Gravel out of the Kidneys and Bladder and so is specifick to break the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder that if you put a Stone cut out of a humane Bladder into a quantity of Spirit of Salt it will dissolve immediately without fire or any addition of any thing though it were never so hard it is used to dissolve Gold and make it Potable if you do whet its Vertue by putting to it a little Salt decrepitated before you put your Gold in it alone it dissolves Pearls and Coral The marks whereby you may know and distinguish this Spirit from others are these 1. That it is clear and white drawing to a citrine transparent colour 2. Being newly made it is Vaporous and seizes the nose presently but without stink and being old it has no odour at all 3. That upon your tongue it is of an acid biting faltish taste 4. It neither corrodes nor tinges of any colour its cork-stopple Spirit of Niter MIngle one part of fine and well purified Niter with four or five parts of Potters Earth prepared as in the Chapter of Spirit of Salt fill with this a Glass-Retort well luted up to its neck place it in a close Reverberatory Furnace fitting to it a large and capacious Recipient give your fire by degrees till you come to the highest which continue twenty four hours The Phlegm will come first and in small quantity and also with a little Spirit which will appear in the Recipient in form of a White Vapour a little after the pure Spirit will come appearing in form of red Vapours which will make your Recipient bright and red as a Ruby Out of one pound of Niter thus distilled you may have four ounces of Spirit Obs 1. That you must be very exact in luting your Retort close with your Recipient lest many of your Vapours should exhale and however the Artist must have a care of coming too near at that time lest the Sulphureous and Malign Vapours of the Niter which our Authors call the flying Dragon should offend his Brain and Nerves and make him Paralytick by the fusion and resolution of the humours of the Brain which at that time borrowing from the subtle Nitrous Vapours an extraordinary thinness and penetration would easily insinuate themselves into the nerves and by their abundance cause a total Obstruction Obs 2. That we give the Potters Earth to Niter as we do to Salt to hinder its fusion now Niter is very easily melted because it is the Body which helps other Bodies to be so too by reason of its great thinness the abundance of its Sulphureous substance and its penetration but when once it has been melted it becomes so fix that having lost all its Sulphur it can neither evaporate nor be inflamed though you put it into the fire Then therefore it is called Salt of Niter being fix as Salts whereas before its fusion it was so strangely Volatil that when you did but put a Coal into it it presently was in such a flame that it was almost quite consumed Obs 3. That for this Operation we make use of very fine purified Niter because the purer it is the less it hath of fixed
a Retort and open fire nevertheless to speak properly the name of Oyl is not due to either of them because they are neither Sulphurous nor inflamable substances If after you have made the Salt of Tartar you are in haste to have the Oyl you may presently compass your end by throwing eight ounces of common Water upon four ounces of this Salt of Tartar for then it will all dissolve into Liquor Obs 1. That you chuse good Tartar for that is all Salt whereas the grosser sort of Tartar has much of faeces and terrestreity in it which would spoil this Operation in which we pretend to dissolve all the Salt into Water Obs 2. That your Niter be well devested of all its fixt Salt because we desire here a pure Salt of Tartar without the mixtion of any other therefore your Niter must be entirely volatil and exhale all in the flagration Obs 3. That they both be well powder'd and mingled together that so the Niter penetrating the Tartar do throughly calcine it and it is for this reason that we use an equal quantity of Niter By this method the Tartar is far better and easilier calcin'd than by the naked fire without any Intermedium Obs 4. That we make use here of an earthen glazed Pan without any fear that the Niter should corrode the Lead of the Vernish because its flame is not retained but is at liberty to exhale An unglazed or stone-Pan would be unfit for the Operation because it would presently break by the Inflammation of the Niter The Virtues and Use of the Salt 'T is a great Aperitive Deopilative and Diuretick the dose is from one to two dragms in some Broth or any other appropriated Liquor The Tartar Vitriolated because of the grateful acidity which it borroweth from the Vitriol is much more pleasant to take than this Salt This Salt in the quantity of half a scruple will extract in a quarter of an hour the virtue and tincture of half an ounce of Senna in a glass of cold water and at the same time proves a good Corrective to the noisom smell and taste of the Senna giving it also the virtue of penetrating into all the Veins The Oyl of Tartar is very scouring and drying and is therefore excellent to rub all Scabs Itch and Tetters as also to take away Spots and Sun-burns upon the Hands and Face It is useful to precipitate the dissolutions of Metals and Half-metals or Marcasites And pray by the By take notice That all Acids as Sea-water distilled Vinegar Oyl of Tartar Spirit and black Oyl of Sulphur and Vitriol Spirit of Niter and Aqua fortis serve to precipitate the dissolutions of Minerals but that ordinary common Water serves to precipitate the Distillations and Calcinations of Minerals as also the Dissolutions of Vegetables made in Spirit of Wine for the Reasons which hereafter we shall alledge Crystal Mineral or Lapis Prunellae TAke a Pot of the same Earth that Crucibles are made of of the bigness of a Chamber-pot and like it in Figure with a handle set it upon two Bricks in a great Circulatory Fire of Suppression before the Pot be heated throw into it as much pure Salt-peter in powder as will fill it up to the brim the Salt-peter will melt and as soon as it is melted throw into it a spoonfull of Brimstone in powder which immediately will take fire and be consumed when the flame ceases throw in as much more and so do three or four times This Brimstone does not communicate any virtue to the Niter only serves to purifie it by precipitating its Faeces to the bottom of the Pot till it become so transparent that after these Projections and Flagrations you may see the bottom of the Pot through the melted Niter This done pour a little of this melted Niter into a Brass-tinn'd-Kettle and presently set your Pot upon the fire again having taken away a good part of the Coals round about it then stir your Kettle so as to make the Niter spread it self all over the bottom of your Vessel which done set it in a bigger Vessel full of cold Water that so you may hinder the Niter from burning and adhering too strongly to the bottom of your Kettle separate then at last this white Crust which is as thin and as brittle as Glass and as white as Alabaster and is by some called Crystal Mineral After this take more melted Niter out of your Pot pour it into your Kettle and do all things as before continuing till there be nothing left in the Pot but the Faeces of the Niter which you may throw away Then gather all these thin Crystals together and put them into a Kettle of Water upon the Fire there to dissolve by a gentle ebullition and if all dissolve not it is a sign there is not Water enough When all is dissolved take off your Kettle and filter this Liquor presently while it is warm through a brown Paper over an earthen unglaz'd Cucurbite Then set the said Cucurbite in a Sand-heat there to evaporate till there appear upon the Superficies a thin skin then take it off let it cool the Niter will crystallize into Needles of a sexangulary Figure white clear and transparent as any Rock-Crystal but as brittle as Glass and of a pleasant and grateful acidity And then it is properly called Crystal Mineral because of its resemblance with Crystal Some call it Lapis Prunellae and that is because it is sharp and sowre like your wild Prunes or Plums Obs 1. That we make use of a Pot of the same Earth that the Crucibles are made of and not of an ordinary earthen-glaz'd Pot because the Niter being once melted would also dissolve the ledding of the Pot and being incorporated with it would lose much of its whiteness Obs 2. That we fill the Pot full up to the brim that we may make at once a great quantity of Crystal Mineral and because the Niter melted will take up but half the room it did before being no ways subject to rise and run over Obs 3. That you must beat to powder your Niter for so a greater quantity will be contained in the Pot and also be easilier melted Obs 4. That you must not stay till your Pot be warm before you put in your Niter because the Pot being very hot and the flegm of the Niter coming to be dissolved first would be broke infallibly Therefore put in your Niter at first and so by degrees as your Pot warms your Niter will be deflegmated and yet observe That if you throw a spoonful of Niter into a pot red-hot it will not break because there is too little flegm for so much heat Obs 5. That the Niter being hot enough melts and is deflegmated it melts by the means of its flegm for it is the flegm that puts all Salts into fusion And whensoever Salts are entirely calcined or deflegmated they cannot be melted except they be wet anew by
Sun for the reverberation of its beams would alter the white colour which is the beauty of these Remedies all Magisteries may be trochiskated in the same way and then must be kept in a glass Vial well stop'd Obs 1. That in this Composition we make use of Male Antimony rather than of the Female because being heavier it is better and for the same reason we use the Regulus of Antimony and rather the Regulus of Mars because it is already more purified of the venomous part of its volatil substance Now in this Remedy we do pretend that all that part of the Antimony which has been opened by the Niter is absolutely devested of its purgative and emetick substance that is of all its volatil Salt and Sulphur therefore we ought not to use the Female Antimony which has more of this volatil substance than the Male. But the Regulus of Antimony is better because as it is devested as well of a considerable part of its volatil substance as of its terrestreity it is fitter to be purified and entirely refin'd from all its malignous qualities and yet the Regulus of Mars is best of all because in it the emetick Vertue is already fixed by Mars incorporated with the Antimony You must also take notice That they that seek the Philosophers Stone in Antimony prefer Mineral Antimony before all others thinking that because it has not been melted it is impregnated with all its vertue and therefore ought to be used also in this Operation but without diving any further in this Well of Democritus I will only say That for the use of Physick Mineral Antimony is the most malignant of all and it is devested of these ill qualities only by long and reiterated fusions and evaporations Obs 2. That we use here very fine Niter because we are not only to open and melt the Antimony for common Niter would do that but also so to penetrate the Antimony as to cause an evaporation of all its volatil purgative and emetick substance Now common Niter cannot do this because having a terrestrious substance and a fix'd Salt in it self it would not be fit to maintain a long and penetrating fusion Obs 3. That for the same reason we put three times as much Niter upon the said Dosis of Antimony and for the same reason we keep the Antimony and the Niter upon the Fire half an hour after their Flagration and Projection till all the smoak be vanished and with it the emetick and purgative qualities which the Niter had opened and set loose in the Antimony but if after that you continue your Fire it will produce the same effect in the Antimony that the Niter did that is it will discover and bring forth a new emetick and purgative vertue as we see it is done in the Vitrum Antimonii or glass of Antimony and yet not be able to make it evaporate for that belongs to Niter to do and by this you will perceive that one must be a good Artist that prepares this Remedy well Obs 4. That you must with all the care imaginable wash and edulcorate your Magisterie of Antimony else in stead of being simply Diaphoretick and opening it would prove vomitive because that though the volatil part of your Niter has carried away with it all the volatil substance of the Antimony that it had un-chain'd and set at liberty yet the fix'd Salt of the said Niter remaining in the Antimony retains some part of the emetick substance therefore it is necessary by frequent Lotions to dissolve the said fix'd Salt and so extract it And here again you see the great pains and care that an Artist is at in preparing of this Remedy so excellent and so much used Obs 5. That the Diaphoretick Antimony is nothing but an Antimony most intimately penetrated and opened by Niter and all its emetick and purgative vertues evaporated and carried away with the said Niter by a long and great Fire and then afterwards edulcorated by washing and Lotions It s Vse and Vertues 'T is a powerful Diaphoretick and an excellent Diuretick apperitive and desopilative it is used with good success against all Venereal Diseases as old Gonorrhaea's being mingled with some Venice Turpentine that has been brought to the consistence of Colophone as we shall teach in the Chapter of the Diuretick Pills It is very good against the Small Pox in the weight of a Five Shillings piece of Gold in Water or Syrup of Cinamon taking it three days together to make the small pox come out and dry against all opilations and tumours of the Spleen the Pancreas and the Mesentery incorporating it with the Salt of Tamaris the Mercurius dulcis the Crocus martis apperitivus and scummed Honey as it is here frequently practised with good success The Black and Acid Oyl of Antimony TAke of Antimony fine Niter Brimstone of each one pound powder them and mingle them well together then fire this mixtion in the same way and manner and in the same Vessels that we taught to make the Spirit of Sulphur in There will rise a vapour as red as blood and there will stick to the sides of the Bell and of the Pan and upon the surface of the water a little skin of the same colour all your Matter being consumed take your red flowers and mingle them with your water which is already impregnated with the acid Spirit of these three Minerals Put all this into a glass Matrass unluted and let it be but three quarters full Pose your Matrass on a Round in a small circulatory Furnace continuing a gentle fire till your flowers melt and go to the bottom and that there appears no Sulphur swimming upon the Liquor which will look thick and of a red dark blackish colour but take care that the ebullition be not such as to run over or break your Matrass 'T is in this case that one must be a good Artist and acquire by attention reason and experience a way of Operating surely and easily This done take off your Matrass and pour out your liquor very hot into a white earthen Pot. When it is cool separate by inclination the black and acid Oyl and you will find in the bottom of your Pot a congealed lump of yellow reddish Sulphur keep the said Oyl in a Glass well stop'd and keep your Sulphur to serve you in the making of the Salt of Brimstone Obs 1. That Niter is here used to open the body of Antimony the Brimstone is employed to fix its emetick quality and the Brimstone if it were not joyned with Niter would not be able to inflame the Antimony for the Brimstone being stifled in these vessels would presently go out but the Niter once a-fire though afterwards stifled yet sets the other combustible bodies that are with it a-fire also till they be consumed Obs 2. That the smoak and flowers of this Matter are red because of the Sulphur of the Antimony which is redder than ordinary Sulphur and so
Algarot is nothing but a good quantity of Mercury made volatil by a less quantity of Antimony by the means of the fire and the volatil Salts that are in the corrosive sublimate then devested of the said Salts and sweetned by Lotions The vertue and use of the powder is known by its name which speaks it to be a vomitive and that it performs much more gently than the Crocus metallorum because the Antimony we employ is purer and in less quantity and because that the great washings have carried away the venomous Salts Its Dose in persons grown up is five Grains you may give eight in some Conserve or the yolk of an Egg or in any Liquor appropriated The Vse and Vertues of the Butter of Antimony 'T is a powerful Corrosive it eats away Warts and burns pocky Cancers in a moment but if it be applyed to any nervous part it causes an inflamation for four and twenty hours it is excellent for the exfoliation of Bones and for the Gangrene The Vse and Vertues of the Pontick water It is excellent for Ulcers Itch Scabs the Gangrene you may use it in stead of Spirit of Vitriol by mingling three or four drops in a Julip in putrid and burning Feavers The Vse and Vertues of the Cinnaber of Antimony It is a great Sudorifick in the Pox. The Dosis is from eight to fifteen Grains Bezoard Mineral TAke as much as you will of Butter of Antimony melt it gently before the Fire then pour it into a glass Bell or Cucurbite set it in a Chimney lest the vapours which you must raise should offend you Pour upon it some Spirit of Niter drop by drop for else the ebullition would be such and the red vapours so strong that the matter would run out of the Vessels and the vapours hurt your Brain Continue this Injection till the Mercury and Antimony which are in form of Butter be absolutely dissolved by the said Spirit which you shall know by pouring on some new Spirit of Niter for if there be no ebullition nor smoaking then the dissolution is performed you must pour as much Spirit of Niter in weight as you have used Butter of Antimony your dissolution will appear all along of a yellow colour As soon as it is done pour upon it all at once a quart of Sea-water actually cold this Precipitant will presently make all your Liquor of a milky colour and will precipitate your Butter to the bottom into a very white powder if you let it stand ten or twelve hours to the end your Magistery have more time to precipitate entirely then separate by inclination your Sea-water impregnated with the Spirit of Niter which was the dissolvant and pour on common Water till it come away sweet and insipid filter the rest through a white Paper dry your powder and keep it in a glass Vial well stopped Obs 1. That if instead of Sea-water you had made use of common Water for your Precipitation you would have turn'd your Dissolution into a white Liquor but you would never have precipitated your powder because that though common Water does much weaken the dissolvant yet it does not do it so much as Sea-water which because of its Salt contrary to the Salt of Niter does fight with the said Niter and in the conflict causes the sharpest and most active part of the Niter to evaporate and so to forsake its hold as to let the Butter of Antimony fall and precipitate to the bottom in form of a white powder Obs 2. That that which we call Sea-water is made thus Take four ounces of common Salt boyl it to dissolution in a quart of Water in a brass Kettle then filtrate it through the brown Paper Obs 3. That in the great ebullition and effumation caused by the Spirit of Niter all the emetick and purgative vertue which was in the said butter of Antimony is evaporated and at last carried away by reiterated Lotions Obs 4. That Bezoard Mineral is nothing else but a Magistery or Precipitate compounded of a good quantity of Mercury and a small quantity of Antimony both being calcin'd and opened by the Salts of the corrosive Mercury then devested of the said Salts by the Spirit of Niter so that there remains in this Magistery no other but a Cordial Bezoardick Sudorifick vertue It s Vse and Vertue 'T is an excellent Sudorifick against the Pox the Scurvy all putrid and venomous Feavors The Dose is from eight to twelve Grains in some Conserve but observe that if you mingle it with Conserve of Red Roses it becomes immediately green for the Reasons that we shall alledge hereafter The Calcination or Calx of Lead TAke Lead beat it into fine thin plates and take also of powder'd Brimstone as much lay them stratum super stratum in a glaz'd Pot which set upon two Bricks in the Furnace of a great wheel Fire and half Suppression there leave it till the Brimstone which of its self by the heat of the Pot will take fire be quite out and have a care you do not let it stand longer for fear of melting your Lead and so reducing it to its first metallick consistence therefore take off your Pot and with an Iron Spatula stir your calcin'd matter to hinder it from getting into a lump then take it out and powder it in a Morter then searce it in a silken Sieve till it be reduced to an impalpable powder Obs 1. That we use brimstone to calcine Lead because nothing but Brimstone will take Fire all alone and burn a good while Niter would not take fire all alone with Lead and indeed never is inflamable but when he is joyned with some combustible Body as Tartar Antimony Charcoal or Brimstone and if we did use here Niter with some of these Bodies its flame would be too swift to calcine Lead Obs 2 That we use a vernish'd Pot for this Calcination because our Calx is of the same Nature with the Lead of the Pot and therefore is not in danger of being spoyled and besides the vernish will not be corroded by the Sulphur because it is not a dissolvant powerful enough to corrode a glazing so dried and fastned for if the Lead which you will calcine were not beaten into very thin plates and Sulphur mingled with it every where it would hardly be calcin'd Obs 3. That the Calx of Lead thus calcin'd is nothing but Lead opened and dissolved by the Spirit and Salt of Sulphur and the said Lead will remain in the nature of a Calx but as long as there will be some of the Spirit and Salt of Sulphur incorporated with it therefore if you continue your Fire any time after the Calcination you will evaporate this Spirit and Salt and so your Lead devested of them both will return to its first metallick Nature It s Vse and Vertues It serves to dry and cicatrize old Ulcers when they are cleansed before and almost fill'd with flesh by mingling it
taking away the Lute and cutting the thread that ties your Mould together Obs 7. That the Infernal Stone is nothing but a little Coppel-Silver dissolv'd and calcin'd Philosophically by Aqua-fortis then coagulated by the evaporation of the greatest part of the said Water and at last petrified by the fusion of the said coagulated matter which has retained enough of the Aqua-fortis to be in the consistence of a Stone It s Vse and Vertues It is a gentle and pleasant Escarotick it consumes by touching all Warts proud Flesh Cancers Ulcers and red Spots if you wet with a little Water the said Warts and Spots It appeases the pain of the Teeth using it as has been said upon the part of that Skin and Cartilage that makes the hollow of the Ear the crumbs of this Stone powdered and incorporated with a Suppurative consume likewise ill Flesh rotten in Ulcers It serves likewise to dye the Beard black if you put the weight of two or three grains of it into a spoonful of Water distilled from the green shells of Walnuts then with a pencel or some such thing pass it over your hair three or four times observing to hold between it and your skin a little Comb for else this Water fails not to black the skin wherever it touches and that because of the Vitriol that is in the Aqua-fortis and if sometimes the hair grow green it is because there has been dissolved in the Aqua-fortis Silver mingled with Copper in stead of pure Coppel-Silver Cauteries PUt a pound of Quick-lime into a stone Pan pour upon it by spoonfuls about four ounces of common cold Water not all at once but by little and little that so you may gently and without smoak slack it and so retain a good part of its volatile and fusible Salts which will contribute very much to the fusion of the matter of your Cauteries and so make them fitter to be moulded into any shape And besides it will make them more caustick for all volatile Salts are more caustick than fix'd ones Your Lime being well slack'd and in the consistence of paste pour at once upon it as much Water as will reduce it to the consistence of thin Pap and then put to it immediately two pound of good gravell'd Ashes heat red-hot before-hand for an hour in a reverberatory Furnace and in an unglazed Pot but you must put them in by spoonfuls as hot as possibly you can as we have already taught in the making of the Diaphoretick Antimony This done pour upon this matter about four quarts of Water which is as much as is requisite to dissolve all these Salts and so let it stand twelve hours to the end your Water may be well impregnated and thus you will have a Lixivium which you must separate by Inclination from its Faeces into a copper Basin which by reason of its Vedigreece will whet your Cauteries more and more and make them look blewish Set this Basin on a gentle Fire and evaporate your Lixivium till it be dry and have the consistence of a grey Salt If then you desire to use them as they are in a lump and without shape take off your Basin and take out your Cauteries by pieces and keep them in Glass Vials well stopp'd if you will have them well shap'd then when your Lixivium is dried to the consistence of a grey Salt encrease your Fire and melt the said Salt and when it is melted into a blew Liquor then with an Iron Spatula red-hot else the Salts would presently congeal and stick to it take up as much as you please and let your lump fall by drops upon a cold Marble there they will be shaped like half Beads when they are cold take them off with a knife and keep them in glass Vials well stopp'd with Cork to keep the Air from them Continue this till you have shaped all your matter and that the remaining become black and dry upon which if you pour some of your Lixivium which you must have preserv'd on purpose it will dissolve and be fit to be moulded as the rest At last if there remain as there will some black dry matter you may wash your Basin clean and throw that away Obs 1. That Lime contains two Salts one fix and the other Volatile the fix is dissolv'd in the Water which slacks the Lime the volatil evoporates in the smoak and boyling with this distinction That if you pour upon it at first all your Water and so cause a huge ebullition and smoking then all the volatil Salt flies away but if you slack it by little and little pouring only some spoonfuls at a time then there being but a gentle ebullition and gentle smoak the volatil Salts are but weakned and so do dissolve in the Water Now when you make Lime-water to serve to the making of the Phagedenick Water there it is not necessary to slack your Lime so gently because it suffices if you retain the fix'd Salt that so it may be able to dry and consume putrid Ulcers but when you make the Lime-water to serve to the making of Cauteries then you must strive to keep in the Volatil Salt because it is the Volatil Salt that makes the fix'd Salt of both Lime and Ashes to be fusible and therefore if you will shape your Cauteries and make them more Caustick you must retain the volatil Salt Obs 2. That gravell'd Ashes are a Calx proceeding from the Calcination of the Lees of Wine and old pieces of Casks which ordinarily are of Oak so that this Calx contains the Salt of the Lees of Wine and the Ashes of the said Casks of Oak the best sort is that which is blue and well dried and you may easily perceive that it is a Vegetable Salt and indeed nothing but Tartar calcin'd or a Salt of Tartar Now this Salt is fusible as it has been said besides we heat it red hot and throw it into this Lime-pap there to dissolve Heretofore we made use of Ashes of common Wood of Cabbage and Bean-stalks and we may use it still but this does as well and is to be had easily at Paris Obs 3. That in this Operation we use no 〈◊〉 of glazed Earth lest the Salts of Lime and Ashes should corrode the Lead and so dull their point and activity to no purpose which they are to preserve to cauterize therewith the places they are applied to nay if you do but evaporate your Cauteries in a vernish'd Pan they will lose much of their force Obs 4. That these Cauteries are nothing but a Salt composed of the fix and volatil Salts of Quick-lime and gravell'd Ashes which having been dissolved in common water have by evaporation been coagulated in a moderate heat then having been melted by a greater heat have been coagulated by cold upon a Marble It s Vse and Vertues The name shews its caustick escarotick vertues this kind of Cautery produces its effect in a small time and yet gently
It is most excellent in dissolving those fleshly Excrescences and Ulcers called Wolfes The Extract of Hellebore PUt half a pound of the Roots of black Hellebore cut into little bits into a capacious Matrass pour on Spirit of Wine four fingers above your matter fit to it another little Matrass to make a double Vessel place it in a Sand-Furnace and there let it stand in digestion three or four days and let not the belly of your Matrass be above a quarter-way in the Sand nor do not make your fire so great as to make your Spirit of Wine boyl for then part of your Spirits would exhale and be gone yet let there be heat enough to extract the red Tincture of the Roots Separate this Tincture by Inclination or if there be any Faeces filtrate it through a Coffin of brown Paper pour this Tincture into a glass Body which set in the same Sand-Furnace and fit to it a glass Head and Receiver and so draw off by Distillation as much Spirit of Wine as you poured on which will serve you for other uses then take off the Head and evaporate your matter to the consistence of an Extract like Honey In the mean time boyl the Roots left in the Matrass in a quantity of common Water to make a Decoction which strain through a course Linnen then clarifie it with Whites and Shells of Eggs and evaporate it in a stone or glaz'd earthen Pan to the consistence of an Extract which you may mingle with the precedent if you think good We draw these two Extracts separately and with different menstruums because that the Spirit of VVine extracts only the gummy rosinous part and cannot extract the saltish and the common Water does quite contrary It s Vse and Vertues It purges Melancholy most commonly with a loathing and sometimes with vomiting An Essence for the Tooth-ach PUt of the Spirit of Wine campherized of the Tincture of Cloves of the Oyl of Box of the Oyl of Guaiacum of the black Oyl of Sulphur and if you will of the Tincture of Opium of each an equal part there will result an oily red transparent Liquor which you must keep in a glass Vial well stop'd It s Vse and Vertues It is a most excellent Remedy to appease the Tooth-ach and draw off the sharp humour that falls on the Teeth you must pour some of it into a glass and then dip a little Cotton of which make a Pellet as big as a Pea and apply it to the Tooth or in its hollow part if there be any there will presently distil from it a good deal of Water and the pain will cease Turpentine Pills PUt four ounces of clear transparent Turpentine of Venice into a glaz'd Disn pour upon it three times as much water boyl them together with a gentle heat till your Turpentine look white and not yellow as before then take out a little of it upon the point of a Knife and let fall a drop or two upon a pewter Plate if you see that the drop when cold does not stick to your fingers then it is boyl'd enough to make Pills of so take it off and pour cold Water into your Pan that will precipitate the Turpentine in a white Paste take this Paste and knead it with your hand to wring the Water out you may wipe your Turpentine with some Linnen but you must do it gently lest while it is warm the Linnen should stick to it then add to it one ounce of a Diaphoretick Antimony half an ounce of Salt of Sulphur and as much of Cremor Tartari incorporate them together into a lump which will soon grow hard but will easily grow soft again being handled before the fire Keep this Mass for Pills in a Hogs bladder well oyl'd with Sallet Oyl It s Vse and Vertues These Pills do dry up and stop Gonorrhaea's when they have flow'd enough by giving half an ounce for Dosis for the space of a fortnight or three weeks For those that cannot swallow Pills you must boyl your Turpentine a little more till it grow so hard upon the Plate as to be broken in pieces powder this in a mortar and add to it the same Druggs as above The Dosis mentioned will be the same here and must be dissolv'd in white Wine or in Broth or in some Decoction or appropriated Water The distilled Water of Plants PUt a good Hand-basket full of leaves for Example of Plantane new gather'd and fresh into the Brass Vesica add to them about four quarts of Water to the end the Herb may boyl during the distillation and that in boyling the said Water may extract and be impregnated with the vertue of the plant yet let not your Vesica be above three quarters full lest the Water in boyling should carry the substance and not the vapours into the Moors-head You need not put any sponges into the neck of the Vesica as you do in the distillation of the Spirit of Wine because these sponges would hinder the passage of your vapours fit to your Vesica its Moors-head bordered with its Refrigeratory and make use also of the second Refrigeratory that is of the two Hogsheads full of Water as has been taught in the distillation of Spirit of Wine this will further the distillation of your Water very much Give at first a good Fire of Coals and two or three Fagot-sticks continue this Fire and moderate your Distillation so as to make a little stream of Water come always into your Receiver into which it will not fall perpendicularly as the Spirit of Wine does but a little arch-wise As soon as with this little stream you perceive that there come vapours into the Receiver lessen your Fire to hinder the loss of these vapours which spend themselves in vain If your Distillation be performed but slowly and drop by drop or in a very little stream falling perpendicularly then encrease the Fire that you may not lose your time by an unnecessary protraction of the Distillation From time to time empty your Receiver and immediately pour it through a glass Tunnel into a stone Pitcher As soon as you perceive that there comes into your Receiver a muddy Water then be sure that all the good part of your Operation is at an end because this muddy VVater proceeds from the burning of the Plants which begins to send forth its Spirit and stinking Oyl therefore give over distilling put out your Fire take out the Grounds of the Herbs left in the bottom and throw away the muddy Water that you shall find there with them after which begin a new Distillation with new Herbs and new Water When you have gathered all your Water into stone Pitchers put into them some Saltpeter well purified and crystallized half a dragm to every pound of Water Obs 1. That you must not put your Water into an earthen Vessel unglazed because at last it would lose its self entirely through the pores of the Potters-Earth which is
of red dry Roses of the year you are in and stir all together again with your Spatula and so let them stand till the water begin to boil then take off your Vessel cover it and when the matter is cold strain your Tincture through a Cloth or a Coffin of brown Paper it will be as red as a Ruby and will keep four or five months without danger of corruption Obs 1. That if you did put your Roses into the water before the Spirit of Sulphur or Vitriol you would lose your Spirit afterwards in the Roses without effect but the water being sharpned first is fit to extract and revive the Tincture of the Roses It s Vse and Vertues It is a very pleasant cooler being Cordial and strengthening and most excellent for the Liver the Kidneys and the Stomach The Milk or Precipitate or Magistery of Brimstone TAke four ounces of Flowers of Brimstone and sixteen ounces of common Salt decrepitated and powdered mingle them well together which that you may the better do put a spoonful of each at a time upon a Marble stone and there grind them to an impalpable powder wet this powder drop by drop with distilled Vinegar till you have reduced all into the consistence of Pap or hasty Pudding then scrape it together with a piece of Horn and continue doing thus till all your matter be grown'd and thus prepared in the mean time boil six pound or three quarts of common water in a Brass Kettle and when the water boils throw in all this lump of Matter and after it has boil'd a little add to it half an ounce of white Roch-Alom in powder and stir it with a Woodden Spatula keeping your Kettle on the fire till all be dissolved in the water which then will be of reddish muddy colour and this will happen in half an hours time then take off the Kettle let your dissolution cool in cooling the Brimstone will precipitate to the bottom in a whitish colour when it is all precipitated pour off gently the Water which will be impregnated with the common Salt and Alom pour common Water upon your whitish Matter to sweeten it and do so till the Water come away insipid and that the Matter be entirely freed from the Acrimony of the Vinegar Alom and common Salt filtrate that which remains through a Coffin of white Paper or through a glass Tunnel as has been taught heretofore and you have the Precipitate or Magistery of Brimstone Obs 1. That our design being here to open and whiten the body of Brimstone we use the Flowers of Brimstone because that by reason of their impalpability which they have contracted in their sublimation they are fitter to be incorporated with common Salt and to become whiter than common Brimstone would be which would be very hard to be powdered so fine as the flowers of Brimstone are already Obs 2. That we use common Salt to open calcine and whiten the body of Brimstone and we use it decrepitated and three times as much in quantity as the flowers of Brimstone to the end it may do its work the better for the furthering of which we also add distilled Vinegar which quickens the common Salt by incorporating it with the Sulphur Obs 3. That for this incorporation we use not a Brass Mortar because it might black the powder by the attraction of the Tincture of the Metal but we use a Marble and Stone one where the finest things may be easily made finer so that a hair might be broken upon it Obs 4. That Brimstone alone would never dissolve in water though never so exactly powder'd because that being exteriourly of a greasie oleaginous nature and its Salt being altogether buried in its own substance all the ways of being dissolv'd are taken away from it But if you add to it common Salt by means of the distilled Vinegar and the Levigation of it then all being one body it happens that the Salt and Vinegar in their dissolution do engage the Brimstone to dissolve at the same time but then it is necessary that your water should boil some time to hasten the dissolution of these bodies and so the Sulphur being a little opened and calcin'd by the common Salt and Vinegar does at last afford its Tincture to the said water Obs 5. During the ebullition of the common Salt and Brimstone in the common water we add a little Alom to whiten and scowre the Brimstone for Alom is a very dry white Salt and Brimstone quite contrary is a very oyly mucilaginous one we do not use Roman Alom because that it is red and would communicate its colour to the Magistery of Brimstone which ought to be white by reason of the common Salt Obs 6. That the Brimstone is precipitated all alone without any Precipitant as soon as the water grows cold because its dissolution in water was not perfect and the strength of the Salts being dulled by the coldness of the water they can no longer retain the Brimstone above water Obs 7. That the Precipitate or Magistery of Brimstone is but Brimstone Philosophically calcin'd by common Salt and distilled Vinegar and scoured by Alom then sweetened by washings and so whitened in form of a powder It s Vse and Vertues 'T is an excellent dryer or dissicative for all Ulcers and therefore is fitter to make the Balsam of Brimstone either with Spirit of Turpentine or with Walnut-Oyl than ordinary Brimstone or the Flowers of Brimstone It is particularly good against all Ulcers of the Lungs to ripen the Fluxions that fall from the Breast and help the Expectoration of Flegms and also to dry away the humours which flow that way It may be taken either in a spoonful of Syrup or in some Conserve or you powder with it a Toast spread with fresh Butter or Oyl The Dosis is from half a dragm to a dragm And if at the same time you will strengthen the Stomach and gently loosen the Belly you add half a dragm of Rhubarb in powder upon your Toast you may put it into a spoonful of some pectoral Water but it is not so easie this way because by its lightness it swims upon the Water and that so in stead of swallowing it a good deal will remain in your mouth You may likewise use it in a Pomatum against the Itch and Scabs because that this Brimstone hath acquired not only a singular whiteness but has also lost all its ill smell which makes all the Unguents and Balsams of Sulphur so stinking and unpleasant but it would be a dear Unguent because you can hardly prepare much of this Magistery at once nor without great pains and cost The Magistery of Pearls TAke one ounce of Oriental Pearls which are better and much dearer than the Occidental reduce them to a fine powder in a Brass Mortar which must be covered with a Leather Cover in which is a hole to put your Pestle in put this powder into a Glass precipitatory Vessel
and part of it makes the Water look muddy Obs 3. That we powder and searce it that we may extract easilier and more abundantly the said Crystal of Tartar Obs 4. That we boyl it in a great quantity of Water and that a good while that we may extract all its saltish substance Obs 5. That it is thrown in by spoonfuls and not altogether that so the dissolution of its Salt be the better performed and sooner and for the same reason the Water is not cold but boyling hot Obs 6. That we stir it continually with a Spatula else it would remain in the bottom of the Kettle in a lump and so being touched by the Water but on one side it would not so easily dissolve Now your Spatula must be of Wood and not of Iron lest the blackness of the Iron by the acidity of the Tartar come off and spoil the beauty of your Crystals Obs 7. That we boyl our Tartar with Water in Brass or Copper Kettles and in earthen Pans because that the Salt of Tartar is not sharp enough to corrode Brass Copper or the glazing of Lead and therefore there is no danger it should be loaden or impregnated with their substance and particularly if it be uncalcin'd Tartar and dissolved in Water Obs 8. That your Tartar having sufficiently boyl'd in Water and the Water being impregnated with all its Salt we filter this dissolution through a brown Paper-coffin that so we may separate all the terrestrial indissolvable part of it which will remain in the Coffin of brown Paper this filtration is performed while the Dissolution is warm that so the Salt may pass with it which would go to the bottom in form of a white powder if the Dissolution were cold Obs 9. That to crystallize the Salt of Tartar uncalcin'd and dissolv'd in Water you must evaporate above half of your Water till your Salt begin to coagulate which you observe by that little skin that gathers upon the surface of your Water then by taking off your Vessels and placing them in a cold place as the Cellar the Salt is formed into Crystals and is freed from the Water which kept it in dissolution If you had continued your evaporation till your matter had been dry there would have remained in the bottom of your Vessel a white Salt in powder but it is much more pleasant to have it in the form of Crystals Obs 10. That the Crystal of Tartar or Cremor Tartari is nothing but Tartar scoured and whitened by Lotion pulverisation boyling in the Water filtration evaporation and coagulation or crystallization made in the Cellar It is composed of two substances one is saltish the other is terrestrial The first dissolves in any Water the second only in warm Water and as soon as the Water is cold the Crystal frees its self from it and coagulates in the bottom in form of a white powder if there be a good deal of Water but if there be but a small quantity of Water it coagulates into white Crystals sticking to the sides of the Vessel It s Vse and Vertues It is a great Aperitive Desopilative and Diuretick It purges gently sometimes but its principal effect is always by way of Urine The Dose is from half a dragm to two taken inwardly in broth It is often mingled with Opiates and also with purgative Potions but then you must swallow them more than luke-warm else it would coagulate and remain in the bottom of the Cup or Glass some also do dissolve of it in Clysters to the weight of two dragms or half an ounce The Cremor Tartari Calybeatus or the Steel'd Crystal of Tartar TAke four pound of white Tartar of Montpellier wash'd dry'd powder'd and searc'd as has been said in the precedent Chapter Mingle with it two ounces of the Crocus or Saffron Aperitive of Mars or Iron throw this mixtion by spoonfuls into a Kettle full of boyling Water stir it continually with a wooden Spatula and boyl your Water half away then take off your Kettle filtrate the rest while it is warm put your Filtration into earthen Pans unglazed and evaporate it in a gentle fire to the Pellicule as you do in the Salt of Saturn then set it in a Cellar to congeal and in three or four days there will strike to the bottom and sides of your Pans a good many clear Crystals of a fine green colour round in figure and a little sharp separate by inclination the remainder of the Liquor of the Pans and evaporate it again and set it to crystallize as the first set your Crystals in the Sun by placing your Pans on one side that all the Liquor may run from them when your Crystals are very dry loosen them with the point of a Knife and put them into Vials to keep let them be well stop'd for if the air come at them they will dissolve again or at least grow wet and lose their colour Obs 1. That you must take the Crocus Martis aperitivus or opening and not the astringent because that the Astringent is devested of its Salt Now here we pretend to the proper Salt of Mars and to mingle it with the Salt of Tartar By this Mixtion the Crystal of Tartar acquires the green colour of the vitriolick Salt of Mars and the faculty of dissolving in cold Water If instead of the Saffron of Mars you had added the Salt of Tartar calcin'd you would have made Chrystals of white Tartar dissolvable in cold Water for either of those two Salts of Mars or calcin'd Tartar would prove a Corrective to the terrestrial and indissolvable substance of the Cremor Tartari Obs 2. That we evaporate the Dissolution of these two Salts by a gentle fire that we may keep in their volatil Salts which by their mixtion do whet and attenuate one another and so are disposed to fly away which if they did then your Crystals would not so easily crystallize Obs 3. That the Steel'd Cremor Tartari is nothing but the Cremor Tartari incorporated with the vitriolick Salt of Mars by their dissolution in Water the evaporation to a Pellicule or skin and the crystallization in a cold Cellar It s Vse and Vertues 'T is a more powerful opener and desopilative than the Cremor Tartari It is most excellent against the Yellow Jaundice the Green Sickness and to provoke the Monthly Courses if stopped The Dose is from half a dragm to a dragm in some Broth or appropriated Water The Virginal Milk of Benjamin and Storax TAke of Benjamin and Storax of each two ounces reduce them to a fine powder and put them into a Matrass pour on Spirit of Wine so as the matter be covered four or five fingers deep with the said Spirit let your Vessel stand in a cool place for two or three days in this time the Gums will be dissolv'd and will colour the Dissolvant with a red transparent colour like a Ruby and withal will communicate to the Dissolvant their
smell most perfectly pour off this Tincture and keep it in a glass Vial for your use when you intend to make of it Virginal Milk put about a spoonful of this Tincture into a precipitatory Vessel as a glass Bell c. and pour on it about a pint of cold Water your Tincture and VVater will be both as white as Snow and your Tincture will be incorporated with the VVater without precipitating to the bottom Obs 1. That the Benjamin and Storax containing but very little of terrestrial impurities do dissolve almost totally in Spirit of VVine which by the thinness penetration and evenness of its substance dissolves easily and without heat the said Rosins Obs 2. That the red Tincture is turn'd as white as Milk when it is dissolv'd in three or four times its quantity of VVater because that the common VVater does force the Spirit of VVine which was impregnated with these Bodies to let go its hold and so it does to all Dissolvants It s Vse and Vertues This Virginal Milk serves to refresh and whiten the skin it is excellent against all rednesses inflammation and Eresypela's The Precipitate or Magistery of Silver or Luna TAke one ounce of the purest Silver beaten into Plates as thin as Paper then cut it into little bits and put it into a Matrass with a long neck pour upon it three ounces of Aqua fortis made with Niter and Alom and so let your Silver dissolve in it without heat pour out your Dissolution into a glass Bell and pour upon it a quart of sea-Sea-water the Silver will presently turn into white Curds which in a small time by little and little will precipitate into a powder as white as Snow and as shining as pieces of Diamonds separate by inclination your Sea-water impregnated with the Aqua fortis and pour on more cold common VVater so often till at last it come away without any saltish taste which is a sign that your powder is dulcorated filter the remainder through a Coffin of white Paper and let it dry in the shade you will have a Calx Precipitate or Magistery of Luna most admirably fair and white and glittering put it into a glass Bottle well stop'd and keep it for your use Obs 1. That you must take the finest purest Silver for if there were the least mixtion of Venus or Copper in it the Magistery instead of being white would be green like Vitriol Obs 2. That you must take Aqua fortis made on purpose with pure Niter and Alom for the Spirit of Niter alone would be too sharp and your Magistery would hardly be sweetned from all Acrimony which might if there remain'd any corrode and spoil the face it is laid upon As for common Aqua fortis made with Niter and Vitriol it would be worse not only because it is sharper than Spirit of Niter but also because of its having Vitriol amongst it which would make your Magistery black Alom is much fitter to be added to Niter because it has little Acrimony and great quantity of Flegm insomuch that Alom is nothing but a part of Virginal saltish Earth and a great deal of Water congealed and crystallized together Obs 3. That Sea-Water precipitates the Calx of Silver for the Reasons which we have said in the Chapter of the Magistery of Bismuth Obs 4. That the Magistery of Silver or the Moon is nothing but a Philosophical calcination of Silver by the means of Aqua fortis precipitated by Sea-Water and sweetened by frequent Lotions It s Vse and Vertues It is the best of all Fucuses according to the esteem and opinion of Ladies because of the choice of the matter and of the Dissolvant and also because it is dearer than the others the great price of things serving often to create an esteem for them The Tincture of Gold or Aurum Potabile TAke a hollow branch of Crystal as thick as your finger and two or three foot long thrust it half way into warm Ashes to heat a little and so dispose it to endure a greater heat without flying then present it by little and little to the fire of a reverberatory Furnace then put it quite into the Furnace and hold it in the middle of the flame to make it grow red and soft there must be over against the Fire-room-door a hole by which another must put in the end of a little Crystal Twig made as small as a thread which he must heat likewise and soften and when it is soft he must fasten it to the end of the great branch which you hold then let him draw this Rod or Twig to himself and the branch will follow and stretch like Paste and you may make as many Rods and as small as you please of it Having made divers little Rods of Crystal by this method you must guild them one after another with Ducket Gold in Leaves buy therefore a Book containing six and twenty Leaves of Ducket Gold take one of these Leaves and spread it upon a Cushion made of Calves Leather and with a sharp Knife cut it into little slices of half a fingers breadth then wet with spittle one end of your Crystal Rods and apply it to one of these slices turning it upon the Cushion to make the Gold stick then continue wetting it a little higher and apply it to another slice of Gold and do so till you have guilded all your Crystal Rods one after another using a little white Cotton to press your Gold and make it stick This done put them to dry in an Oven after the Bread is taken out when they are dry apply another lay of Gold to them and then dry them do thus seven times so that each Crystal Rod be covered with seven lays of Gold Then powder grosly all of them guilded and dried and put them into a Crucible which set in a VVind-Furnace give a great fire and continue it till your matter be melted then take it out and powder it it will look yellow let your powder be very fine Put this powder into a long-necked Matrass and put to it a dragm of the Salt called the Salt Anatron or the Salt of Glass it is the fix'd Salt which sticks to the bottom of the Kettles where Salt-peter is boyled if you can come by none of this Salt Anatron put in common Sea-Salt decrepitated and pour upon it also Spirit of Salt well rectified and devested of its flegm four or five fingers above the matter this Spirit being whet and sharpened by the addition of the Salt Anatron or common Salt will corrode and dissolve the said Gold in three or four hours without fire and in this action will lose its force so that it will have no Acrimony left but only a pleasant acidity and it will be impregnated with the Tincture of Gold in the mean timâ— it will not operate at all upon the Crystal which will remain in the bottom of your Vessel in its own substance fit for other