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
Make little earthen Cups very smooth and white of the best earth
being burnt: then make the following glasse to flow in a very strong
crucible, in which dip one cup after another, being held with tongs,
and first made red hot in some little Furnace, letting them lye covered
therein for a while, that the earth may the better attract the glass;
which being done, let them be taken out, and be set again into the
foresaid collateral Furnace, where they were before made red hot, when
one is taken out, dip another in the molten glass in its place, which
also is again to be set as the first into the aforesaid Furnace; and
this is to be reiterated so often, until all the pots be covered over
with glass: all which being done, the Furnace is to be shut close every
where, that the wind enter not into it, and so it is to be left until
it become cold of it self, and the glass covering over the cups remain
intire, which otherwise cannot be if the cups be set in a cold place;
now the glass is made after this manner.
Take of crude Antimony two parts, of pure Nitre one part; grind them
well being mixt together, kindle the mixture being put into a crucible
with a red hot iron, and the Sulphur of Antimony will be burnt together
with the Nitre, a mass of a brown colour being left behind, which you
must take out while it is hot with a spatle that it may cool, which
afterwards being melted in another strong crucible for the space of
half an hour, or an hour, makes that glass with which the aforesaid
cups with their covers are covered over.
_Of the use of the aforesaid Cups._
There is no one that can deny that Antimony is the most excellent of
all vomitives, wherefore, so many and so various preparations have been
invented by Physitians for the taking away of the malignity thereof;
whereof I have shewed some, together with the use thereof in the First
and Second Part of this Book, where alwaies one is better than another;
yet notwithstanding ’tis confest, that Antimony reduced into Glass, is
sufficient to purge the Stomack and Bowels from all corrupt Humors, and
that without all danger, (being rightly administred) as well by vomit
as by stool, by which means many grievous imminent Diseases are not
only prevented, but also presently are cured.
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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. — John Shaqi
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