Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ...

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Title: Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ...
Author: Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
Publication: London :: Printed for Will Cooper ...,; 1683.
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An Operation upon ♄: Sent me by Monsieur Boucaud.

The Philosopher's Epilogue.

SOlution and Ablution are one and the same thing, for by Calcination the Bo∣dy is divided into small parts; by putre∣faction it is corrupted, and when it is distil∣led, it is reduced into its first Matter, and re∣maineth dissolved.

Congelation is a Fixation, Re-union, or Coagulation of the Volatile and dissolved Body.

By Reduction and Fixation, when this Body is Sublimed, it fatneth, and resolveth, uniteth, and at last is perfectly coagulated. Thus in these two Solutions and Coagula∣tions,

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are contained Ablution, Reduction, and Fixation.