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.
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 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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A Work with Butter of {antimony}.
THE Work, which Monsieur Perdussin
of Lyons communicated to P. A. Dieu∣doné,
is to make a Butter of {antimony} with {antimony} Mine∣ral,
and ☿ {subli}mate, ana lbj, Of this take ℥ij.
and digest it in a Matrass sealed Hermetically
in an Athanor, and it will putrifie, growing
as black as pitch; then pass the Colours:
That done, take one part of leaf ☉, and
three of this Powder; grind them well to∣gether,
and digest as before, it will become
black as at first, and pass all the Colours.
This proportion of ☉ for ferment, you may
divide into several parcels, for several times,
descriptionPage 59
so each Revolution will be shorter, when the
whole dose of ☉ hath fermented the first
stone: This product serveth for ferment to
multiply in quantity and quality. The P.
wrought the first part, and had perfect pu∣trefaction.
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