A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.

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Title: A description of new philosophical furnaces, or A new art of distilling, divided into five parts. Whereunto is added a description of the tincture of gold, or the true aurum potabile; also, the first part of the mineral work. Set forth and published for the sakes of them that are studious of the truth. / By John Rudolph Glauber. Set forth in English, by J.F. D.M.
Author: Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670.
Publication: London :: Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the signe of the Bible in Little-Britain,; 1651.
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Subject terms: Distillation -- Early works to 1800.; Gold -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.; Alchemy -- Early works to 1800.
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To distil an excellent spirit and a blood red tincture of corals and sugar.

IF you mix sugar with red corals made into powder and di∣stil it, there will besides the spirit come over a blood-red Tincture like a heavy oyle, which is to be joyned with the spi∣rit by digestion in Balneo, and it will be as vertuous as that which was made with Antimony diaphoreticum. It doeth perfectly and lastingly cure epilepsie in young and old; it cleanseth the blood▪ from all filth, so that leprosie together with its several species may be cured thereby, &c. Its use is the same as was taught above of the Antimonized spirit of sugar.