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We would try the same also with the dryed Plant, pouring Spirit of Wine upon it; after standing some hours, by the help of a Bath, we distilled it with Glass Vessels, observing (which was a pleasant Spectacle) the Liquor distilled by the Alimbeck was of a Gold colour. Con∣cerning the causes of this effect, if I may guess, I believe the Sun-dew is so com∣posed, that it abounds with volatile Salt,
which in the time of distillation doth joyn it self with the Rosiny Particles which are dispersed through the whole Plant: for if you behold its external face any manner of way, you will easily discern it to grow reddish from goldishness. Moreover this must happen from a peculiar propor∣tion of Salt: because there are not want∣ing many Herbs which are both reddish, and rosiny, whose distilled Waters never∣theless do not in the least look reddish, or yellowish.
After we had made these our Experi∣ments, we happened upon Conradus Kunraths, Medulla Distillatoria, who in the fifteenth Tract written upon Ros Solis, propounds (after his custom) a tedious method of making Medicines out of this Plant; and amongst other things asserts, that the distilled Water of it is yellow, and that there is to be prepared from it a Quintessence which is a Panacea in all manner of diseases. Which thing we will leave to its Author, or rather to Isaac Hollandus, out of whose Book, intituled, De Opere Vegetabili, all that Kunrath hath writ seems to be taken.