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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Title: 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 Laxative and Emetick Cream of Tartar.

TAke Glass of {antimony}, and Cream of Tartar, ana ℥jss. grind them to a subtil Pow∣der, then mix them together; put this into a Matrass, and pour upon it ℥ij. of Rose∣mary-water; digest it for some days, sha∣king it sometimes; then filter it, and evapo∣rate to dryness, and you shall have a Salt, which grind to Powder, and keep it in a Glass close stopped. It is a safe and gentle Vomit, and Operates also by Stools. The Dose is from gr. j. to v. or vj. in a little Sack.