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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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35968.0001.001
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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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To prepare a most Excellent Medicine with
this Mercurial Water, proceed thus:
TAke of the afore-said Mercurial {water}, and
of Spirit of Wine distilled three times
upon Honey, and then rectified upon Salt
of Tartar, of each equal parts; distil them
together, until they be well united: Then
to six parts of this Menstruum put one part
of a Spungy Calx of ☉, digest them toge∣ther,
until the ☉ is totally dissolved, except
a little white Earth, which will remain in
the bottom. Then distill in a Retort in
descriptionPage 161
Sand, and cohobate so often, until the ☉
come over into the Receiver. Then sepa∣rate
it, by distilling in a Cucurbite, and
there will remain a red Oyl like a Ruby in
the bottom; whereof one drop in some fit
Vehicle, is admirable for Health. This dis∣solution
of ☉ hath a most Odoriferous scent,
better than Amber and Musk.
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