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.

A Mercurial Liquor with Jupiter.

TAke lbj. of Iupiter, melt it in a Cru∣cible, then pour into it lbj. of ☿ re∣vived from Cinaber, and made hot, make an aaa of it, which wash with warm water, wherein you have dissolved a little Salt; wash it so often, till you have washed away all the blackness of it, and the aaa will be as white as snow: Then dry it, and grind it in a Marble or Stone Mortar with lbij. of Cor∣rosive Sublimate; then spread it upon a large dish of Glass, which set shelving in a Cel∣lar, putting something under it to receive the Liquor that will run from it, you will find at last the Salts resolved into a Liquor, in which will be also the ☿, which will be re∣vived; separate the Liquor from the ☿, and keep the ☿ for another use: Put the Liquor into a Cucurbite, and evaporate the super∣fluous moisture of it in B. M. with a gentle heat: Then digest it for fifteen days more in the same B. with a very gentle heat; then pour this Liquor into a Retort, which put in Sand, and fit a Recipient to it; then distill by graduated fire, giving strong fire at last

of the fourth degree; you shall have a Li∣quor like an Oyl.

This Liquor is much esteemed to Cure the Cancer, Wolf, Fistulaes, and all sorts of old, inveterate, Malign, and gnawing Ulcers, being applyed outwardly.