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.
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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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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 April 30, 2024.
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An Universal Medicine, from ☉ and
{antimony}, &c.
TAke of the ☿ prepared, as shall be taught
hereafter, ℥j. of the Tincture of ☉,
afterwards set down, ʒj. mix them well to∣gether
in a Glass Mortar, then put them in∣to
a small Matrass, and digest them with a
Lamp {fire} with one wick only for ten days;
then digest for ten days more with two wicks,
then with three, and lastly, with four wicks,
descriptionPage 168
which makes fourty days digestion in all, at
the end of which you shall have a red Pow∣der
as red as a Ruby.
This Powder is an Universal Medicine for
the greatest and Chronick Diseases: It Cures
the Gout, Dropsie, Palsie, French-Pox, Plague,
Leprosie, the Evil, Small-pox, and Measles.
Its visible Operation is by Stools, by Urine,
and by Sweat: The Dose is from gr. iij. to
iv. or v. in Conserve of Borrage or Vio∣lets.
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