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
But the spirits of another kind, as of Tartar, Harts-horn, salt
Armoniack, Urine, _&c._ are hot also, but not so dry, and besides
the heating vertue, have also a penetrating, cutting, mollifying,
attenuating, absterging, and expelling power; wherefore also they work
wonderfully in all obstructions of the inward and outward parts: for
they do better than all others, open the pores of the skin, and provoke
sweat, mollify, and open the hemorrhoides; provoke the _menses_ of
young and elder women, purge and heat the womb, and therefore cause
fruitfulness; they heat and purge a cold and moist brain, acuate the
intellect, and memory, let they that be great with child take heed
of them, and also they that have a Porous open skin. Such and other
more properties, and that deservedly are ascribed to these spirits.
Now those two aforesaid baths (in one whereof those spirits are used
in a humid way, being mixed with warm water, for the whole body to be
bathed, and sweat in, but in the other in a dry way where the vapours
are by force of the fire made under the Globe, forced up into the
sweating box towards the patient, which being used after this manner do
oftentimes penetrate, and operate more efficaciously than that humid
way) are not to be slighted for the recovery of health, as doing things
incredible. Now those spirits not being found in shops, nor being
made by any according to the manner that I have shewed in the second
Part, I would have thee know that there is yet another matter, which
needs not to be distilled, and it is mineral; which being put into
the Copper Instrument, doth of its own accord without fire yield such
a sulphureous spirit, which penetrates very much, and goeth into the
sweating box, like in all things to that which is made out of salts,
minerals, and metals. Nature also hath provided us another matter that
is to be found every where, which being in like manner put into the
Instrument doth by it self, and of its own accord without fire yield a
spirit, in vertue not unlike to that which is made out of crude Tartar,
or salt Amoniack, Soot, Urine, _&c._ Of which in the second Part,
doing, _viz._ the same things with that which is made with costs and
labours. Those foresaid two matters therefore can do the same things,
which are required for a bath and sweating, which those two foresaid
kinds of spirits, _viz._ mineral and sulphureous, vegetable and animal
can do, _&c._ Now what those two matters which are easily every where
to be found are, thou desirest to know; but I dare not if I would, for
the sake of the pious to reveal them because of the ungrateful, and
unworthy. For it is an offence to cast pearl before swine, which yet
the pious may, by the blessing of God find out by the reading of the
rest of my Writings.
_Now follows a wooden vessel which is to be used instead of a
Cauldron in boyling of Beer, Metheglin, Vinegar_, &c.
[Illustration: _fig_: I
_fig_: II]
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