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
The preparation of a very good vinegar out of certain vegetables which
are to be found every where, which may be compared to that which comes
out of France, and in a great abundance, whereof two rundlets of nine
Gallons do not exceed the price of one Royal. [A Royal or Imperial is 4
_s._ 6 _d._]
The promoting of the ripening of wines of the cold countries of Europe
(a very few that are very cold being exempted) that they may yield very
good sweet and durable wines, whereas otherwise they could come to no
maturity, being very like to those which hotter countries yield.
A certain secret way of carrying wines from mountainous places, where
carts, ships, and other commodities are wanting, where the carrying of
ten pipes, doth not exceed the price of one pipe otherwise carryed, so
that by this means, outlandish wines may be brought to any place with
great profit.
A very good and easie preparation of verdegrease out of copper, whereof
one pound doth not exceed the price of six stivers.
A new and compendious distillation of vinegar, of which a rundlet of
eighteen gallons doth not exceed the price of half a ryal, with which
many things may be done, especially the crystallizing of verdegrease,
of which one pound prepared after this manner, doth not also exceed the
price of half a Royal.
A compendious and very easie way of distilling a very strong spirit of
urin, and that without any cost and pains, so that twenty or thirty
pints shall not exceed the price of one royal, being very excellent in
medicine, Alchimy and Mechanique affairs, by the help whereof a most
beautiful blew vitriol may be made out of copper, being very profitable
in Alchimy and medicine, making silver so fusible, that by the help
thereof, glass vessels, as basons, dishes, and candlesticks, _&c._ may
be so guilded as to be taken for silver.
A way of distilling the spirit of salt in a great quantity, and that
with small costs, so that one pound thereof will scarce exceed the
price of six stivers being very excellent in Alchymy, Medicine, and
other Arts; especially for the doing of these following things, _viz._
the separation of gold from silver without hurt to the Cups or other
things, also the solution and separation of gold mixt with copper and
silver by the force of precipitation, where the _Menstruum_ that is
preserved, may again be used for the same uses, which separation is the
easiest of all other humid separations, whereby gold is reduced to the
highest degree.
The separation of volatile sparkling gold out of sand, _&c._ very
profitable, without which otherwise it could never be separated,
neither by the help of Washing, nor by Mercury, nor by the force of
Melting.
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