The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.Glauber, Johann Rudolf
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The works of the highly experienced and famous chymist, John Rudolph Glauber : $b containing, great variety of choice secrets in medicine and alchymy in the working of metallick mines, and the separation of metals: also, various cheap and easie ways of making salt-petre, and improving of barren-land, and the fruits of the earth.
Glauber, Johann Rudolf
Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Chemistry -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800
In the same manner as hath been taught of honey, there is also made a
spirit and oyl of sugar, _viz._ adding pure sand to it; or (which is
better) of the flores of Antimony, and then according to the rules of
Art one spoonful after the other of this mixture cast in, it will yeild
a yellow spirit, and a little red oyl, which after the distillation
must be digested in Balneo so long together, till the spirit have
assumed the oyl and be turned thereby very red in colour; it needeth
not to be rectified, but may daily be used either by it self, or with
such vehicles as are proper for your purpose; in all it is like in
virtue unto that which was made of honey; yet this of sugar is more
pleasant than the other; it reneweth and restoreth all the blood in
man, in regard that it received great vertue from the diaphoretical
flores of Antimony; and this spirit may fitly be used in all diseases,
it can do no hurt, neither in cold nor hot diseases; it doth help
nature mightily, and doth so much good, that it is almost beyond
belief. Especially if for a time it be used daily from ℈ j. to ʒ j. The
residue of it is black, and may be kept for the same use again, _viz._
for an addition to other honey or sugar, or else you may sublime it
again into flores in the furnace described in the first part, or in the
furnace described in the fourth part of this book, with an addition of
iron or tartar, or salt nitre, reduces it into a _Regulas_, &c.
_To distil an excellent spirit and a blood red tincture of corals and
sugar._
If you mix sugar with red corals made into powder and distil it, there
will besides the spirit come over a blood-red tincture like a heavy
oyl, which is to be joyned with the spirit by digestion in Balneo,
and it will be as vertuous as that which was made with Antimony
diaphoreticum. It doth perfectly and lastingly cure the epilepsie in
young and old; it cleanseth the blood from all filth, so that the
Leprosie together with its several species may be cured thereby, _&c._
Its use is the same as was taught above of the Antimonized spirit of
sugar.
_Of the spirit of Muste or new Wine._
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