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 June 13, 2024.
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A subtil Volatil Water from Sulphur, which
will Dissolve ☉.
I AM told by one who hath done it, that
when you go to Sublime Flowers of
Sulphur, if you give very gentle and mo∣derate
fire, and be very attentive, there will
come over first, before any Flowers Sublime,
a little very Volatile, but altogether insipid
Water, which he saith, will dissolve ☉: It
is much more Volatile than any S. V. A
Glass full of it will presently vanish away, if
you hold the Glass unstopped upon your
hand, by the warmth of it.
Hartman.) This Relation is of Sir K.
If you would save this Water, you must
have a Glass head upon your last Subliming-pot,
or a Ludel, wherein you Sublime your
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Flowers of Sulphur, and instead of a Vessel
without a bottom, as that for the Flowers
of Antimony, you must have one with a
bottom, and without a hole on the side
to put in your Sulphur, and then two Alu∣dels
besides the said Vessel, and the Glass-head
will be sufficient for subliming the
Flowers of Sulphur.
By means of the Glass-head you save also
the Vinegar of {antimony} in subliming the Flowers,
which I have done several times; but I used
not above three Aludels one upon another,
besides the Glass-head.
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