A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
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A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
Author
Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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London :: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by William Cooper ..., and Henry Faithorns and John Kersey ...,
1682.
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Subject terms
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Alchemy.
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"A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35968.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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An Observation about Volatilised ☽.
MOnsieur de L'oberie, and Mons. de l••
No••ë wrought the first Process upon
☽ (which is after those upon ☉) that is in
the handgrif of Bas. Valent. which maketh
the fourteenth Book of his Test. But instead
of a due Calx of ☽, they took one made
with A. F. (the ordinary made of Vitriol
and Nitre) and Precipitated it with Salted
{fire} (Salt dissolved in Common {fire}) and for
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the rest, did as the Process teacheth; which
was Reported to me thus. Put upon this
Calx of ☽ (they had ℥iv.) (after it is well
dulcified by often ablutions with fair {water}, till
no Saltness or Spirits appear to remain) so
much fresh A. F. as to swim four fingers
breadth over the Calx of ☽: Distill off the
A. F. then cohobate again; do thus four
times: At the last distillation give strong
{fire}, you will have a gray substance like Mar∣ca••ite.
Beat it to Powder, and put distilled
Vinegar upon it, to swim four fingers over
it; digest two days, then boyl it three or
four hours, after which, distill away all the
distilled Vin. and there should have remained
blew Crystals, but they were white without
tincture: So having failed in their expecta∣tion,
they would reduce their ☽ back in a
body, therefore dulcified it well with distil∣led
Vinegar and fair {water}, and put it into a
Cruc. to melt with a little Borax, and a little
Nitre, and a thick smoak flew away, and in
the end there remained but ℥ij. of ☽.
Consider, if this course, and, if need be,
digesting longer (at last) with distilled Vi∣negar
and Oyl of Tartar, {sal armoniac}, and Salt of
Urine, &c. Then distilling with Tartar and
Calx-vive, might not make ☿ of ☽.
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