DRY the remainder of the foregoing Preparation, and grind it to a very subtile pouder upon a Porphyry, then flux it in a Crucible, equal weight of very pure Salt-Peter; and when it shall wholly flow, throw in it by degrees and small parcels, the chrystal pouder well dryed, and leave them so together by infusion five hours; this done, dissolve that which remains in the Crucible with distilled rain-water, to wash away the remaining Salt-Peter; then dry gently the Caly, and put it in a Matrass, pouring upon it very good distilled Vinegar, three times cohobated upon burning Nettles; and continue this dissolution, till the vinegar draws no more; then filtrate all the dissolutions, and evaporate untill they be dry, and you shall find in the bottom of the vessel a greyish salt, which you must dissolve again in the same Menstru∣um, filtrate and evaporate to purifie it; and thus you may keep
A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain.
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- A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain.
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- Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669.
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"A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general: and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 3, 2024.
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it, either dry as a salt, or dissolve it in liquor in a cold Cellar, and you shall have that which is improperly called the oyl of Chrystal. The dosis of the Salt is from iv. gr. to xvj. in appro∣priated liquors, and with requisite precautions; and the dosis of the liquor is somewhat stronger, by reason of the moistness which the salt hath attracted to it self, by which it is reduced ro liquor. You must turn back to what we have said of the Vertues of pre∣pared Crystal, to judge of the Salt and Liquor: Noting this ne∣vertheless, that they are principally and more properly used against Podagrical diseases, and specifical for kidney and bladder.