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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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 Reality upon ☽.

TAke ℥ij. of ♀ in thin Plates, and ℥j. of small Nails, put them in a Cruc. in a Furnace, and when they are very red, cast in some Sulphur upon them at several times, that they may melt well; when they are like Paste, cast in some {antimony}, and stir it with an Iron Rod to make them well incorporate: Leave it in good fusion for five or six hours, stirring it sometimes. Then take out the Cruc. and let it cool; then break it, and you shall find but a little Reg. at the bottom, but many yellow lumps at the top, which beat to Powder. Then melt ℥ij. of fine ☽, and project ℥iij. of the Powder; stir it with an Iron Rod, keep it in fusion for eight or ten hours. Then put it to Coppel, and se∣parating {water}, and you shall have fine ☉.

Hartman.) This Process is also confirmed with a Probatum.