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.
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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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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 1, 2024.
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Fixation of ♄ into ☽, with good Profit.
MElt lbj. of ♄, then put in ℥ss. of ☽,
and some scories of ♂, and a little,
red Arsenic; keep it in a strong {fire} for three
or four hours or more. Then the Cr••••ble
being cold, break it, and take out the Mat∣ter,
and put it in a new Cruc. which must
have a little hole in the bottom; put this
Cruc. in a wind Furnace, and melt the Mat∣ter
again, putting under the Furnace a Ba∣son
with {water} to receive the Matter as it melt∣eth
and runneth through the Cruc. Take
this Matter and melt it again with the same
quantity of ☽, and new scories of ♂; keep
it in fusion as before. Reiterate this Ope∣ration
ten or twelve times, until the ♄ is
very hard, being impregnated with ☽; then
put it to Coppel with ℥j. of ☽ to every lb.
of this Mixture.
The goodness of the Operation consisteth in
the fixation of the ☿ which is in the ♄ by
the Sulphur of ♂: Therefore you must keep
the Matter a long time in fusion, that the