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 you infer, that this is yet a crude and imperfect preparation, and
therefore not so safe. To which I answer, that Antimony that purgeth,
needeth no preparation, for if all the crudity thereof were wholly
taken away by fixation, it would no more cause vomiting or stools;
wherefore the aforesaid glass of Antimony is not to be feared, because
it is not dangerous, but may safely be given to Children that are one
or two years old, but not in form of a powder, but in infusion or
extraction of its chiefest vertue made with honey, sugar and wine,
sweet or sowre. After which manner being given, it attracts from all
the bowels all vitious humours, and evacuates them as well upward as
downward, without danger; of which thing elsewhere more at large. Let
him that useth the aforesaid Cups, infuse one or two ounces of wine,
and set them a whole night in some warm place, and the wine will
attract from the glass so much as doth suffice it, which afterwards
being drank in a morning, doth perform the same as an infusion made
with the powder of Stibium; and this is a more delicate way than the
other, because a Cup is sent to the Patient that he may infuse in it
the space of a night, two or three spoonfuls of proper wine, placeing
it in some warm place, which he may drink up blood warm in the morning,
with a due ordering of himself afterwards: Which, in my judgment is a
more delicate way, being made with ones one wine, and ones one hand,
than that tedious way of potions, both large, bitter, and nauseous. And
this Cup may oftentimes be used, and if at length the wine should not
attract sufficiently, the Cup with the wine is to be set in seething
hot water for a little time, that the wine might the better attract,
and work, when need shall require. Now he that gives such kind of Cups
to others, must instruct them concerning the ordering, and administring
of the same. One Cup is sufficient for the Master of a Family, with
his whole Family for all the daies of their life. It is not to be used
by all, and every one, and in all Diseases indifferently, but only by
those that are strong and young; and where the principal parts are
not hurt. Cups may also after another way be covered over with Glass
without Antimony, as follows.
Sublime _Auripigmentum_ in a Glass or Earthen Gourd; and take the
gallant golden coloured Flowers thereof, which being after a peculiar
manner melted, yield a red and most beautiful Glass almost like an
Oriental Ruby, which being broken in pieces, may be used in stead of an
Ornament; but this is more soft, and brittle, than Glass of Antimony.
This Glass, or those Flowers of _Auripigmentum_, which are not yet
reduced into Glass, do notably glaze the aforesaid Cups with a red
beautiful Colour.
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