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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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- 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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- Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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- London :: Printed for Will Cooper ...,
- 1683.
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"Chymical secrets and rare experiments in physick & philosophy with figures collected and experimented / by the Honourable and learned Sir Kenelm Digby ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35965.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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smooth stone, and being cold, pulverize it, and put it into a Retort; pour upon it distilled Vinegar rectified, lbiij. Digest for twenty four hours, then distill in Sand by graduated {fire}, giving strong {fire} at last for six hours, that the Retort may be red; then let it stand to cool the space of twelve hours: Then di∣still this Vinegar in a Cucurbite in Ashes, separating the flegm, rectifie it three or four times more, and it will be white and clear; before it was yellow.