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 6, 2024.
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The best way to Extract the ☿ of ♀.
SUblime Flowers of {antimony} after Glauber's way,
in great quantity, in casting the {antimony} in
Powder upon kindled Coals in a Furnace
with many Pots one upon another, wherein
the Flowers settle. The Flowers which are
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in the last or highest Pots must be received
into running ☿, by distilling them in a
Retort with two parts of Soot, and one of
black Soap. Those in the middle, by black
Soap and Salt of Tartar: Those that are in
the lowermost Pots, by Soap only, with a
little Salt of Tartar, not much, lest it should
reduce the Flowers into Regulus.
The Furnace must be round, and well
made every where, then set a cover upon it
like a Funnel, and the Pots upon that;
then fill the Furnace with Coals, and let
them be well kindled before you cast in the
{antimony}, that the Flowers may be pure and white;
then cast in the {antimony} through a hole, which
must be on the side of the cover: And thus
you shall Sublime lbj. of Flowers in an hour.
(See the first Figure.)
The Process teacheth to set fifteen or six∣teen
Pots one upon another; but I think
five or six may do as well.
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