Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

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Title: Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
Author: Royal College of Physicians of London.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Cole ...,; 1653.
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Subject terms: Pharmacopoeias -- England.; Dispensatories -- England.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Crocus Martis. Page 195. in the Latin Book.

Heat pieces of Iron or Steel red hot, and thrust them into a great heap of Brimstone, a bazon of water being set underneath, the mettle will run out like Wax, which being separated from the Sulphur, beat into ve∣ry fine pouder in an Iron mortar, which put into four∣square earthen pans, not above afingers bredth in deep∣ness, set it at the flame of a reverberatory three or four daies, till it look red like a Sponge, the tops of which take away with an Iron, set the rest at the fire again, till it look so all of it.