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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Composition.
TAke ℥ss. of your Calx of ☉ prepared
and attenuated, as was said, put it in a
Glass Mortar, and pour upon it ℥iij. of the
S••lary ☿; the ☿ will suddenly swallow up its
Body, as one drop of {water} mixeth it self with
another; then squeeze out so much ☿ of this
aaa; that there remain but about two parts
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of ☿ with the ☉. Put this aaa in a Philo∣sophical
Egg, and pour upon it by little and
little of your Oyl of ☉ before-mentioned,
hold it over a gentle {fire}, and stir the Matter
with an Iron Rod, that all may well mix
and incorporate, pouring on so much of the
said Oyl, that it be of the consistence of thin
Mustard, and then you shall suddenly see
marvellous things, when the Soul of the
said•• ☉ (which is its Oyl) entreth into the
Body of the ☉, by means of the Spirit, which
is the Solary ☿, and that by means of the
said Soul, the Spirit uniteth with its Body,
of three being made one; stop the Vessel
speedily, because of the fumes. The Body
of the ☉ which was dead before, being by
this only and admirable means animated, dig∣nified,
and filled with a Vegetative Life,
will thereby acquire an inward Power of
Multiplication, as well as the Sperms and
Seeds of all Animals and Vegetables, and
be made fit to grow and produce Fruit,
(being sowed in a fit Earth) which it could
not do before, because of that default. The
Vessel being Sealed Hermetically, put it in
Ashes in a brass Vessel in the shape of half a
boul; digest it with a Lamp {fire}. As for the
time, and the colours, mark what Trevesan
saith of it; for at the end of fourty days you
shall see the blackness: Continue the first
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degree of heat to whiteness, which will
appear within four Months: then augment
the {fire}, and continue until it come to be of
a Citrine colour, and then threre will be no
more danger. Increase the {fire} to the fourth
degree, and continue that, till your King ta∣keth
his Robe, and that the Matter suffer
Ignition without smoaking.
Hartman.) This Process was sent to Sir
K. D. in a Letter from Paris, by Abbot Bou∣caud,
with the following words. Sir,
I have sent you here inclosed a great Work
upon ♄, which Monsieur de Rouviere hath
given me; it cometh from a Man who ha∣ving
been carried away, and kept close in a
Castle, made at last his escape, and was con∣ducted
to the Duke D'Elboeuf, and Mon∣sieur
de Rouviere found the said Process un∣der
his Boulster.
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