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VEssells for Distillation consist of different matter and forme, for they are eyther of Lead, Tinne or Brasse, or else earthen vessells and these are sometimes leaded, sometimes not: or else they are of Gold,
silver or glasse. Now for leaden vessells they are worse than the rest, and utterly * 1.1 to be refused, especially when as the liquors which are drawne by them are to bee taken into the body by the mouth, by reason of the maligne qualities which are said to be in Lead; by which occasion; Galen condemnes those waters which runne, and are contained in Leaden pipes, which by reason of their saltishnesse and acrimony which savovrs of quick silver, they cause dysenteries. Therefore you may perceive such waters as are distilled through a leaden head to bee endued with a more acrid and violent piercing vapour, by reason the portion of that saltishnesse dissolved in them, & as it were shaved from the top of the Alembecke or head, defiles the distil∣led liquors, and whitens and turnes them into a milky substance but copper or brasse * 1.2 heads are more hurtfull than Lead, for they make the waters that come through them to savour or participate of brasse. Those that are of gold and silver are lesse * 1.3 hurtfull; but the greatnesse of the cost hinders us from making heads of such met∣talls; therefore we must have a care that our vessells for distillation be eyther of pot∣ters mettall leaded, or else of brasse, or of that jugge mettall which is commonly called terra belovacensis, and these rather than of Lead, or any other mettall. Verily glasses are thought the best; and next to them, earthen vessells leaded, then of jugge mettall, and lastly these of tinne. There is great variety of vessells for distillation in forme and figure; for some are of an ovall or cilindricall figure, that is, of a round and longish; others are twined and crooked, others of other shapes, as you may see in the beakes of the Chimicks. Of this almost infinite variety of figures I will in fit place give you the delineation and use of such as shall seeme to bee most necessary.
Leaden vessells ill.
Brasse worse.
The best ves∣sells for di∣stillation.