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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The Fifth Operation.
IF you would make a Stone of Paradise
alone, or Virgins Milk, you need not
separate the Elements; but if you have se∣parated
them, do thus: Take of {fire} or red
Oyl part j. of Air, or white Oyl parts iv.
and of Virgins Milk parts viij. Put them
together in a Matrass with a short and nar∣row
Neck; in two other Matrasses put of
Virgins Milk, q. v. Seal them all Hermeti∣cally,
and so put them in an Athanor on a
slow fire of small coals burnt till they have
ceased from flaming, and so let them stand
till by several colours they attain a perfect
white: Then (if you will have the Stone
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white) you may take out one Matrass, leav∣ing
the other two (if you Operate with three
at once:) Then increase the fire sensibly,
because your Work cannot easily be marred,
and so proceed by degrees, until the Mat∣ter
is perfectly red.
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