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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Oyle of Venus.

SPirit of Salt doth not easily work upon Copper, unless it be first reduced into a calx, and that after this manner. Take plates of Copper made red hot in an open crucible, quench them in cold water, & they will cleave into red scales: then the remainders of the plates make red hot, & quench as before: do this so often till thou hast got a sufficient quantity of the calx; which being dryed, and poudered extract with the rectified spirit of salt, in sand, untill the spirit of salt be sufficiently coloured with a green timcture, which you must de∣cant, and filter, and then abstract from it the superfluous moisture, that there may remain a green thick oyle, which is an excellent remedy for ulcers, especially such are venereal, being applyed outwardly.